The Ashes of Madame Blavatsky
William Wallace
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If reincarnation holds true, I should like to be born Away from this city, in the high Himalayas Where the crown of the world shows its thorns Detached from this body, now spinning, now coming back down To the grey skies of London, and this Spanish affliction Cigarettes and a hospital gown Masters of secrets, and bridges to worlds we can't see The lodger within me, like pylons sunk deeply In the mud of an Indian sea Clear conscience, clairvoyant, not the fraud the world wants me to be These manifestations, are the wisdom of ages Unveiled, untethered, set free You brothers of Luxor, you sisters of Isis come down There's a shadow that runs from the mountains of Lhasa To the edges of Old Camden Town The wind through these canyons is cold, and it scares me to breathe Like treading the water of an African cape Or the Mediterranean sea The lotus is born of the mud, but it rises to greet The sun and the passing of souls in the aether If the two of them happen to meet A thousand years pass, and the lotus will wake once again Reborn to a world that is also reborn The same souls in new bodies and skins But here in these walls, in a house in the woods of St. John There's a vase, ornate in its making, and full Of the parts of a soul that is gone No flying, no falling, no spinning, just an idol at rest A last manifestation, a new transfiguration She's reincarnated at last...
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