I have just started the walk on Eternity Bridge – my favorite haunt,
\nCoarseness of world softens in the folds of the surrounding celestial scenery,
\nSomething overtakes my loneliness and makes me come closer to completion with myself,
\nMy long struggle with existence melts like snowflakes in the first rays of sun.
\nI am walking like a circus stuntman on a high-wire on Eternity Bridge:
\nA quarter-mile long suspension bridge connecting the two points of Sommasan mountain range at 5,000 ft.,
\nSpanning a wide and beautifully dreadful crater chasm 3,000 feet below,
\nAs long as one does not look below the bridge it is ethereally intoxicating,
\nThe eerie stance of the bridge makes one both drunk with euphoria and zany with fear,
\nThe mountainscape\u2019s mystic pregnancy is meditating in the supine arms of nature.
\nMy walk unfolds like a half-conscious dream,
\nThere is an eternal serenity encompassing every atom above the bridge,
\nBut below it the chasm spreads a web of fear and doom,
\nAs I walk I am unable to focus fully on the scene above the bridge,
\nAs the vision of the scene below disturbs that grandeur,
\nIn the struggle between the two I slipped from the walking-path and
\nFound myself hanging precariously from the steel ropes of the bridge-deck,
\nBut am able to support myself tenuously by the steel beams but unable to climb back on the deck,
\nI am waiting for someone walking on the bridge to rescue me,
\nPull me out from the jaws of death and place me unto the road of life again.<\/p>\n
As I hang between life and death I have never wanted to live more as I do now,
\nI feel a new vision rushing to me:
\nWe do not know what is precious in life and what is dross,
\nIn life illusions abound while its essence remain stubbornly concealed,
\nAs if by a malicious design of nature,
\nIf we could minimize the intrusion of world in our lives we could regain our pristine vision,
\nAnd walk through life with a serenely glowing spirit,
\nI realize now that my present precarious balance between life and death
\nHas always been present in my life: hidden in a different form under the veneer of everyday durable life,
\nWith my new understanding the journey of my life could be enhanced,
\nBut I do not know if I can first survive my present calamity,
\nIt is a supreme mystery and irony that life scintillates with an enigmatic beauty when it is close to its end.<\/p>\n
Suffern, New York, 5.10.2011
wwww.kaulscorner.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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