poem by felix fojas - THe Dark Night of the Soul

Felix Fojas February 23 at 8:00 AM THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL By Felix Fojas Ask St. John of the Cross, The ascetic Simeon Stylites, Ezra ben Solomon the kabbalist, The Sufi master Ak Shams ud- Din, or the Buddhist sage Padmasambhava: the soul’s Pitch black night is a dizzying, Acrophobic nosedive and Free fall into the rock bottom Of despair, winged pilgrim, But the agony—indescribable And terrifying— is truly worth The interminable waiting for The ecstasy of enlightenment That o, is long in coming...