Beauty in Darkness

Beauty in darkness,

Ivory-white

Sleeps like the secret

Heart of the night.

Night may be boundless,

Formless as death,

Here the white-breated one

Still draws breath.

Music that vanished

At eve, on the air,

Silently slumbers

Till day-break here.

Here, at the heart

Of the universe, glows

Exquisite, absolute,

Love's deep rose.