# The Ascetic Heart


The heart, that is
Devoted to the deity,
Is ascetic, and is unlike
Of the other vita, who has it,
As only blood and flesh;
It becomes the realm of errand-ghosts;
It's all dark in the inside even with a lucid core,
Since darkness is infinite;
They comes into it as stars,
When one twinkles, another slides.

- Nishi