Mind Does Not Know Me
It is buried in a yesterday,
a bygone, a far gone, yet still
as near as my most recent breath
taken.
I must have reached for the key.
I must have thought a strange thought,
that thought sparked
an ignition in a hard driven
want.
I have arrived but the arrival
does not belong to my mind.
I have driven through myself
and now I (this me that
exist only on paper),
knows
knows beyond
any ordinary understanding
that the mind knows me not
and never can.
That the thoughts it thinks are not mine
they are ghost written
pre-coded. They cannot see
beyond themselves.
These thoughts the mind repeats
I disown them.
I pay them no attention.
I now use the mind and its brain
only to calculate their falseness
or to compile shopping lists
to add or subtract
to imagine my fake reality.
Beyond the mind a truth shines
it's light blinds the mind
exposes it as a ghost, only a phantom
one that acts
all the parts of the one theatrical play.
Beyond this mind
I am gone
but in my absence
I take the high seat of pure awareness
and no thought or concept
reaches to that placeless place.
I am a window frame for God
to look through
and I am the one who looks.
Copyright © Eric Ashford | Year Posted 2023
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