Burdens
East and West cultures
embellish spiritual truth
with color and decoration
and with shadows of
creation's duality..
These confounding covers
produce sleep and
resistance to calls for
new recognition..
Religious texts hide
their single truth
in their stories and
discontinuities..
We need to find teachers
ancient and new
with a balm of simplicity
to uncover..untangle
and burn all those
burdens which hide
our own Truth...
A second to midnight
A frightening ship goes into space
To replace a vacuum of dream
Babe, hold me tight
A piece of hope only in this rest
A litlle dream
Voices being disabled
Crawling being in motion
From within
Awakening day been canceled
No morning, no more
Let us be more human
Enjoying an uninteruptable holiday
Like a massive rock
In a discontinuities attack
Following our turn
Was torn in broken pieces
Babe, hold me tight
A piece of hope only in this rest
A litlle dream
The way stretches forward, the infinity path
Every shape well defined, by the certainty of math
Great ferns surround, curved in huge Fibonacci arcs
While trees, gods of forest, are discontinuities in bark
The air is still and it's gentle touch oddly cool
And a visiting writer would lie about a pool
And a nymph. Or a vast Aire kingdom on high:
Beauty's present as the trees, though concealed from the sky
I followed her here, for where else would she dwell
Not hidden away in some black and white cell
The most perfect line, shaping me and my soul
Once my love now my breath, my quest takes a great toll
This cool jungle is our home as I try to define her:
I'm a textbook on the harm of obsession's spur.
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