If there is such a personal connection, like in "My Certainty", what about emptiness, nothingness, freedom? With focused forms of meditation, we bring our attention to a single point, and there is nothing beyond that point in all of our awareness. This is another way of knowing, seeing, feeling with everything one is. Rather than opening into total desire, we pour our attention into simplicity, into oneness. When this occurs, it is like getting in touch with something that cannot die, something that has never had a beginning and so needs no end. So, the last line can be read as if "nothing" is a thing--a thing called Nothing lives in there. But it may also be possible to experience the end of all struggle, an end of all difference between the lover and the loved, an end to all believing in and worry and paying attention to an idea of separation.
Everything that lives dies.
My desire pours into
a space so small
nothing lives there.
Copyright 2007 Todd Mertz