Silent Towers Wait

Only darkness. Filtered through. Veil upon seam veil. Life sustaining veil. Comprising increasingly. Denser earthbound air. Only darkness filtered through. Till it seems intensely blue. Until appears aerial illusion. Heavenly threaded palette. Painted through composite. Strands upon stretching gulf. Encompassing life web strand. Embryonic space. An earthly atmosphere. A birth blue sky. Rise through multiflorous veils. Find yourself quintessentially soul washed. In mind blowing soul encompassing solar blackness. Cold eternal solar emptiness. Then find yourself soulbound earthbound castdown. In world below. There’s no sky really. Where will it begin? Where are ends? Define it. Through striving effort see. Through researched study effort prove. Perceived sky’s an illusion. As is. Light deficient. Midnight blue. Malabar Hill stretch rocky ridge out overlooking Arabian Sea. There we shall build. Towers Of Silence. Time will pass. Born on heat stifling breeze. Now mist time erected centuries old. Five Towers. Each is circle life circular several hundred space bound feet in sacred circumference. Island environs uniformly defined. By stone walls. Interlocking massed masonry divisions. Twenty thirty feet high. A doorway arches appropriately through each separating wall. Time comes again! Time comes again! Once Humanity Possessed had awesome power over. An intuitive sense perceiving cosmic inherent identification. Viewed life force vibrant aura nature. Collective soul not separate isolated individualities. Loss collective sensory beauty. An all encompassing perceiving psychic vision integral spiritual value. Continue to see creation spirit fusion soul beauty. For there is transcendent spiritually inherent beauty. Ancient mourners knew. Death as life celebration. Continuation enfolding life. Loved ones custom dictated envied honoured on star journey. Towards new transcendent life. On an iron bier corpse is carried. By professional bearers. In celebratory procession. Mourners joyfully follow paired two by two. Joined hand to hand by white handkerchiefs held symbolically between. There be a path tread doorway. Within dividing wall sealed stone. Through which accustomed corpse bearers. In procession pass. Carrying tribute paid burden through thoughts cycle time sealed entrance doorways. No one else may enter! Structured circular platform awaits prostrate within. Paved with large carefully laid out ceremonial stone fitted slabs. Into three shallow rows containing open receptacles is circular platform divided. Fittingly protective hallowed outer row is used to honourably receive husk body offering claiming deceased males. Given next is hallowed female dispersal resting place. Children fittingly consecrated occupy an innermost hallowed row. It is sacred right perfect complete circular symmetrical. Exposure burial honouring community dead is ancient enlightened body soul recycling scheme. Bodies gifted to efficient hungry vultures celebrates cyclic waste efficient unifying nature. Dignity attained upon within each final adieu tribute sculptural pedestal. Cremation would be wholesome clean though burnt body is waste denied substance. In gardens adjoining Towers. Vultures arise from lofty palms. Growing within. Each Tower Of Silence. Scorching heat. Bleaches down. From zenith. Swiftly vultures. Tear clean. Deposited prey. An hour. Two. Only sparkling. Newly bleaching white bones. Remain. Bare sun dried skeleton. Later appropriately cast. Within towers; central womb; receiving pit. On ancestral moist tropical land. To bury dead beneath ground. Is proven an unsanitary measure. A waiting ripe host corpse breeding strenuous highly contagious disease. Vultures are organic quick. Spread no dangerous contagions. Contract no ills. Bones social strata originating structuring both rich and poor mingle lay eternally bound together within each central silent tower. Through centuries crumble to intermingled dust. Mingling together through millennium. Be weeping joyful, let your eyes shine. Mourn not. Death is no dread termination. Rather a natural continuation. In cyclic cycles of life. Copyright © Terence George Craddock