Remarrying

I grasp at reality,

Borrow wilfully 

From the Void

Of ignorance;

reality is the vow 

I will never know Reality,

Except for the shadows

Of our ghostly souls

                                    cast by the Divinely yoked Light

Of perception;

ignorance is the inverse;

ignorance is the chastity, beauty,

Of perceiving Nothingness,

As to feel Nothing 

Is beautiful, for from Nothing

Was born our bedrock our skeleton          Reality

Inspired by the C.S. Lewis novel, “The Great Divorce”.

This poem originally appeared in the Bentham Digest. (Issue 10, Spring 2025)