Companion Set One

№7 Illuminance

Echoing The Mother: Companion Poem to PART 1, #3 of The BWS Project Launch Series (2024)

“Illuminance” is the 7th human translation from Companion Set One, the nine-lyric sequence spinning out of PART 1, of The BWS 3-part launch series (2024). Learn more here. The numerical value of the mother post that №7 is born out of is displayed in the subtitle for later easy reference (post-launch series). As with the other lyrics, this poem “echoes the mother.”

“Believing The Invisible…” –The BWS

Inside the burial grounds of the human giant’s cold sorrow…
Entering through the gate, upon the dark path, winding around
the bend, further down, in the remotest corner, a burrow —
an obscure hideaway. No signage to mark the spare ground,
and no illuminance anyway. The earth having been fractured
is heir to a sober depression. Bruised by the giant’s stomp?
No life here. Only that moment captured when It shattered,
and a dark hollow in need of suture. But wait…a light thump?

In The South Meadow, peering under the wound in the soil
the thump grows ever louder. Looking into the deep heart,
far down in…the light of the human giant’s essence!
If It will dig — believing The Invisible —O, if It will toil,
inside The True Heart a candleflame glows in every small part
of It, for The Light Stream flows on and on. Illuminance.

ⓒ 2023

6th Lyric: №6 Blinking In The Dark
Up Next: №8 Embracing The Legend