Almine

Cutting-edge Mysticism

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  1. Derek says

    gauge
     verb

    1a: to measure precisely the size, dimensions, or other measurable quantity of

    b: to determine the capacity or contents of

    c: ESTIMATE, JUDGEhard to gauge his moods

    2a: to check for conformity to specifications or limits

    b: to measure off or set out

    Upon hearing of the shallowness of beauty,

    I went to Beauty’s seashore.

    I dipped my hand into the water along the sandbank to catch Beauty like a guppy shimmering just below the surface.

    Instead, in grasping for her, I found my hand empty; I felt nothing but Sun-drenched liquid as pressure between my fingers.

    So then I thought, “Beauty must dwell just a bit deeper.”

    I inhaled a breath of air and plunged my face in the water, searching for the ocean floor below the surface.

    Opening my eyes to the stinging salts, I saw no floor at all, just the gradient of the ink of black depths rising up to mix with the dying thrusts of Sunlight.

    Through this sadomasochistic orgy between light & dark, I descended.

    I swam so deeply that the Sun had given up following me long ago; deep, wet darkness— now a Widow— had swallowed her consort fully.

    Continuing my dive, cold & blinded, terrified and mystified, my lungs filled with water as my body finally forced a deadly breath.

    And for just a moment,

    I could hear the faintest giggle of Beauty

    echoing and bubbling from far below,

    as she danced in her unfathomable profundity.

    Upon hearing of the shallowness of Beauty,

    I drowned trying to reach her depths.

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