April 11, 2022
Perspective Creates Our World
By Amba Gale
A blind child
guided by his mother
admired the cherry blossoms.
–Kikakou
Perspective Creates Our World
Three Viewpoints,
Upon Reading Kikakou’s Haiku in Mark Nepo’s Book of Awakening
By Amba Gale
The son
Darkness, they think.
Yet, touching you,
Your beauty speaks, reaches, deepens, touches
my own.
While inside, it is dark,
where I am real and hidden,
I see perfectly.
I absorb
your delicacy,
your pink color,
your love,
deep
in my heart,
and celebrate.
The Loving Mother
Guiding my son,
I have pity,
for he cannot see
the color of the cherry blossom.
And yet, I
have just seen
through my heart’s eye
that the cherry blossom
reaches
deep into his soul.
The Cherry Blossom
May I arrest you
as you reach out
to see me
to touch me.
I am here
for All to touch,
to free you
to your own beauty, inside.
