Sunless

I have read
that a Buddha is within each of us,
only we must walk the way to reveal reality.
Enlightenment is reality.

But I have walked in every pathway of myself
and I have found only darkness.
Sunless blood. Imperfect pulses.
There is no light bright enough to reveal
the edge of the void within me.
There is no light bright enough to reveal
what isn’t there.