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The Primodial Sun
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I’ve seen the world without you.
The one you pulled with your gravity.
The fourth cycle.
Love, war, pain and suffering. 
My mind hardened from the pressure,
My mouth no longer sealed.

Thinking about pressure building up, breaking the seal, like a handmade ceramic in a furnace cracking from the heat.

Venom insulates my veins.
Sharpened by hindsight.

Venom? My blood is poisonous. Sharpened by the bite, the bite of the snake.

I am the blade,
*The khanda*

Sword Spotlight: The Khanda
While most well-known and prized swords originate from regions like Japan and Korea, other countries have produced high-quality swords as well. The khanda, for instance, is a traditional Indian sword with strong historical significance. First appearing during India’s Gupta period (320 to 550), it was used for ceremonia
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The Khanda is an ancient blade. I visualised discovering this sword, buried deep under thousands of years of sediment. I want to emphasise the sharpness and bite from the previous sentence.

My ancestors visited me last night,
invoking illumination of the ‘Primordial Sun’.
Time no longer a burden, 
Internal wastelands have been uprooted,
Kāraṇavāri.

From the spring of creation I bloom.
*Saṃsāra*
Walk with me towards the sun.
This time we are one.

Definitions:

Kāraṇavāri (कारणवारि).—n. the original water produced at the beginning of the creation.

Kāraṇavāri is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kāraṇa and vāri (वारि).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Source: https://www.boloji.com/articles/700/hinduism-a-holy-water-religion--1