How It Seems to Me by Ursula K. Le Guin

Poem published posthumously in 2018 in ‘So Far So Good - Final Poems: 2014-2018.’

In the vast abyss before time, self
is not, and soul commingles
with mist, and rock, and light. In time,
soul brings the misty self to be.
Then slow time hardens self to stone
while ever lightening the soul,
till soul can loose its hold of self
and both are free and can return
to vastness and dissolve in light,
the long light after time.