Hegel's White Sheets

White Sheets (or Hegel’s Mind) 1988 december

The emptiness of the wares
Is an idea the juxtaposition of
a
concept
two
concepts..?
Is the philosopher aware?
is
Cognition. . . open to all...?
Do we all cherish it?
Cognition? Consciousness?
... ... ... ... ... Cognition... Consciousness...

The prolonged cries
The screams of the empty atoms are not
Ephemeral.
And what about cognition?
It is fleeting
Nihilism is transformed into another dimension,
A catatonic state.

And the silence disseminates a veil
over Life
A silver veil, a cloudy veil, a putrid veil
The shrieks are pervasive, they are accentuated by
White sheet s, cold white sheets
And he is now catatonic

Narcissism?
It will fly with
The wind and naturally
the rain will sweep all away; yet
some residue remains... which part?

Minds are. . . the mind is a vessel
The silence returns but that too is ephemeral

Mutability: that is the nature of life
The quality of the spirit is
Perpetual
What would Hegel say about the spirit ?

If only for an instant
Could we reach out to him
Amid these atoms if only we could
Wake him