Ubiquitous Light
Poem by Debasish Mishra
Ubiquitous Light
Poem by Debasish Mishra
From the Archive of Saint Augustine's Magazine
Volume 2, No. 1 (2023).
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour”
—William Blake
I see the world in a grain of sand,
each pixel is a panorama. The wing
of a butterfly carries the perimeter
of the sky and the eye of a fish
the oceans. Each teardrop glistens
with the glitter of galaxies
while each speck of light that raids
my room reflects a thousand suns.
There’s a nano-universe in everything
platonic ideas float around:
the everythingness of everything.
I am a metonym too: the eye
of boundless mankind—the light
that seeks light to discover
what it really is, where it belongs!
Poem published in The Fool's World precursor
Saint Augustine's Magazine Vol. 2, No. 1 (2023).