Netanel Miles-Yépez
"Light Shines in the Darkness" by A.J. Golden (2012-2016)
who ever loved the world in all her darkness
or desired that black lamp for her own light
cowards all who give up the chase in the night
or shrink from the struggle with her velvet mantle
bed me now in the warm flesh of the earth
in the cave of her sensuous darkness burrowed
to die something flesh sacred material and whole
and emerge into the light to which she gives birth
death now to the abstract god of the world-deniers
and their smug apollonian divinity with all its shadow
dionysians arise and let us explore her molten core
not the faint heavens of these false angels of light
* Netanel Miles-Yépez is a poet, artist, and Sufi spiritual teacher residing in Boulder, Colorado.