As In Direct Experience

The ask is silence, let’s see what it takes To hush the blush of senses five On flow of turbid thought, to apply brakes Yet keeping awareness alive Sipping nectar from heart’s bliss hive These prerequisites require surrender Choosing to shift from head to heart Throb of magnetism, silent bliss thunder Ignites on adding love to cart Enabled, no sooner we start To become as such, we must choose to shift It’s not a game of make belief With focus held firm, that we do not drift We willingly turn a new leaf At last offering soul relief Bliss enabled but we’re still in realm dual As yet enslaved by time and space Though cravings of ego no longer rule And we have slowed down our life’s pace We’ve yet to see God, face to face A time does come when we see ego die Simply stated, it falls away It is then we see, earth life is a lie Beholding Self, as clear as day A vibrant, pulsating sun ray How still is our silence, if we’ve not seen Truth of who we really are Light of a thousand suns, is our soul’s sheen Here within, not somewhere afar Aflame, like a luminous star