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17 Jul 2023
Missy
Nicks
New Moon
Aug 1st
after reading
𝑆𝑖𝑑𝑑ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑎
by Hermann Hesse
Jul 3rd
‘I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment, and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.’
Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
i am the son of the boy
i am the boy
Vasudeva looked into my heart and told me of myself
i am of the eternal life
and like the boy
my heart is proud and hard
people like us
need to err
suffer much
burden ourselves with sin
and like the boy’s father
i too am waiting for my wound to blossom and shine
Behind the poem...
I found the book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (originally published in 1922) a few months after coming out of a severe depression and leaving an abusive relationship. It was a journey of healing; being reborn again and again, and understanding that I was meant to go through the darkness in order share this light. Hesse’s book lit something in my soul. I hope my poem lights something within others.
