Kneel. Grotesque and bare.
Kiss with reverence the feet of the unconquered ruler who stands before you.
Submit the price of pain and forfeit the small strength in your own hands to the stronger,
for you are the conquered and subjugated wretch dressed in rags.
Poor of mind and body; prostrate and submitted.
Study and divine the constellations of the veins coursing in the flesh of your beloved.
Remember what you have forgotten in other lives.
Seek peace in his gaze and pray for both his mercy and wrath.
Watch him with reverence.
Study his movements and commit to memory his elements and colours and shades and scents.
Open yourself and be what you are.
Vessel for life and pain, vanity of creation.
Dance in heavens and hells.
