Emptiness

and without a word
or a second thought
I quietly slip into
the dark waters,
lurking below
in every landscape;
where if I wait
long enough,
I will feel
the emptiness rise
and fill the dark night
with the palpable presence
of a soundless music
running off
the rounded edges
of still mountains,
to fill every nook and cranny
of who I really am -
as endless as the beginning
of this one sacred life.