Susan Osborn: Music
Her Heart from upcoming The River CD
I wrote this song for my dear friend and teacher Jiko Kono, artist and Buddhist priest. She embodied Kannon-sama, and her gifts of spirit to me over our 20 year friendship supported and changed my life. She passed away at the age of 82 this April, and will be profoundly missed. Blessings as she goes.
Her Heart
Her heart holds the whole world
Silent embrace
Weary old world
Empty now
Filling with light
Spills into the night
Body of light
How can a heart be so full of nothing
An emptiness so vast
No thing can contain it
Beyond the land of regret and longing
Sunlight on rain
Wind whistling through an empty house
A handful of salt in the sea
Mother of the world have mercy on us
Now and at the hour of our death
Into the hands of emptiness I return my soul
Have mercy have mercy
There is no holy one but this
There is no other to be kissed
This is no unattainable bliss
Just this just this