Delusion

the urge to do
anything at all
as a doer doing
is a trance state
because identity
as separate self
does not exist

the desire to serve
even anonymously 
laudable as it is 
is also bondage
being not in surrender
to Holy Spirit 
that enlivens form
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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