Reincarnation

REINCARNATION ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and I hope to return a thousand times after.” GOETHE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Each soul an ambassador was and is of God’s will and grace A ray of divinity, a guardian of the Holy Law Each with a specific mission: to learn or rather to remember How to find the way of return throughout space and time And with the divine, again, to be seen in perfect equilibrium 2. The day I was born, as every man alive, I found my immortal self bound to the wheel of time That around eternity’s circumference took me, in very heavy chains Asking to follow obediently the unswerving path of fate; This endless trip of return where the only constant thing is change 3. Since then I have died once and many times after But death's dark palaces to hold me were unable As my soul’s perpetual desire to follow my way Brought me back to this ephemeral world of fleeting dreams With a new body, new hopes, new goals but always with the same desire 4. Thus I journeyed back and forth the plains of oblivion Choosing the best conditions I could, according to my karma Trying to find endlessly the golden middle way That unmistakably between the extremes is only to be found But since from the river of forgetfulness each time I was drinking I was obliged, unfortunately, to start over again 5. So, I was born once a king and another was born a beggar And in turns I was born a coward, a hero, a holy man, a vicious man, A Christian, a Muslim, an atheist, an idolater a black man and a woman And healthy and sick I was born and intelligent and witless 6. And was born to love so much the things I once detested And to hate passionately the things I once held dear And was born only to laugh and another just to cry So, I drunk successively from the cups of joy and of sorrow And was born to make friends out of my enemies And enemies out of my brothers And was born to realize the impossible dreams and fail the very easy And I was born to slay and to be slain alternatively for thousands of years 7. Thus I lived continuously the extremes of both good and evil Striving to find endlessly the balance in my soul Through the wisdom that was endowed upon me by the Great Spirit Who like a beacon, luminous, to guide me waits To my supreme destiny that GOD for me has traced 8. So, as was passing from life unto death, from darkness unto light With a speed determined by me, I don’t put on GOD the blame, All my lessons have I learned through trial and error Up to the very last reincarnation, in body’s mortal temple 9. Now free, AT LAST, from all earthly desires and every karmic blame Radiating with holiness and glowing with grace My immortal soul, HER divine wings unfolds and soars upwards the heavens White light blazing in perfect equilibrium And pure now to her glorious creator returns and with HIM UNITES! ©Demetrios Trifiatis 5 January 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “A little while and my longing shall gather dust and foam for another body. A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind and another woman shall bear me” KAHLIL GIBRAN --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------