Eye Contact
What is love?
A sea of nonexistence
both tranquil and calamitous
where the mind
does not dare enter.
(Rumi, M. Mafi, "Day By Day", p. 120, 2014, Hampton Roads)
What is timeless synergy?
Our sea of coexistence
both confluent and dissonant
where blind consciousness
seldom dares disembody.
Aging time,
This house, not home, hums and strains pitchy tension,
Remnants of bleached but dingy historic laundry,
face cloths remember cherished warm skin,
dryer in winter's discontent,
more needy of enduring compassion.
Staring through my mirror now,
I reach back into black glazed pupils
expanding through memory archives,
four grandparents staring back
through this sagging reflected face,
each one time-traveling through this same bilateral Black Hole
Home's binomially eternal windows
imagining forward grandchildren's future lives,
remembering backward through these four grandparents.
We know this visual looking out and back
and through our mutually cooperative investment generations,
sometimes more listening dissonant,
sometimes less win/win mutual mentors,
bicamerolling partnerships,
but at least on occasion syncing cooperative praxis
or this interdependent coredeemer face could not stare back
through time.
Aging rapidly now,
back toward messianic mystic shamans.
Where were these same DNA-drenched pupils
of mutual subsidiary learning
expanding and contracting,
causing hearts to race and calm,
breath to gasp and slowly subsidize
this atmosphere of longing to belong ago
again?
Were these wise mentors hopeful ancient mariners,
swimming through generations of salty tears,
wet fears and joys,
jumps and starts,
swelling farts
feeding trees to synthesize our enculturing breath?
Listening for, noticing a new millennium,
era,
life,
perennial cycle,
season of organic polycultural development,
more permanently encultured
with fertile light and warm felt sounds
and Time's regenerating rhythms
of dancing songs and thumps,
surfs and silent advents.
Speaking,
perhaps these pupils listen for what they see reflecting
back through karma's cumulative incarnations,
each grace of opportunity for mindfully inclusive redemption,
love as synergy,
dissonance as hate,
violence,
neglect,
dismay,
heartbreak,
unsustainable loss of therapeutic life
to fly and swim together
or fall apart
back through plasma flows and folds,
regenerating
informating these deep learning pupils
looking, searching, noticing, decomposing,
seeding, growing, guarding, developing,
incubating, harvesting, winnowing nutrient compost
through ancient primal roots
of RNA's meaning, regenerating body dancing purpose
To keep stepping forward through Time's unfolding information
incarnation, as possible,
avoid revolving backward into meaningless
mindless dissonance,
competitiv e disarray,
dominator violence,
decaying entropy.
Pre-historic now,
our pupils reflect darkly dense regenerative study,
decomposing wispy wet winds and whips of swimming eco-seas,
surfing pregnant prime love relationship
of right and left cooperation
remembering Yin greets Yang's dominant deductive proposal
with mutually subsidizing solidarity,
cooperation,
investing in bipartisan future's redemptive ecology.
Ancient bicameral ellipticals,
mutually mindful Yang with Yin
looking out and back,
and in and positively forward through Time's ubiquitous consciousness.
Primal evolutionary ionic self-mirroring,
regenesis,
ever aging eternal moment
of dense strung solidarity
remembering,
recollecting,
reconnecting NOW
from past genetic heritage
through future's evolving compassions.
Timeless pupils of love's synergy
surfing seasons of pre- and post-millennial awareness.
Now if I could remember where I left my glasses,
and my teeth...
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2015
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