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Ways of a Spiritual Teacher

When a younger woman I
yearned for someone wise,
My egocentric brain a-fluster,
Show me wise, show me luster.
 
Found the one that bore your name, Sir,
though Ma’am I would’ve preferred.
Placed so high giraffes can’t reach.
Prior life, Bam! in its tracks with a screech.

Changed my name and made it truth.
Gave my boys their names as youths.
Your lessons hard as black and blue
the Saturn teacher for me was you.

Eventually though I came to view
no news as good news that came from you..
Difficult path, this Dharmic way
took your say more than my own way to play.

Abandoned myself yet again at your feet
but the best thing you gave to me,
gave back in silence that innocence key
that trauma had slapped back through history.

Not ok to be weak, nor ok to be meek
Know-it-all ego shouts more than it speaks
The key, in silent looks askance
Beginner’s Mind, half-dead, we dance.

Copyright © Satsatnam Khalsa | Year Posted 2018



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Energetically Speaking

Steer here to peer at these compounded years
fierce uncried fears strangled my tears

So strong, so stoic, brave in my silence, too
no one to empower or donate my views to

Learned that I’m supposed, to trust no one, tell no one
better hold fast lest secrets will come undone

Electric our address, electric our bodies
lack of awareness, feel more like zombies 

Dead to my joy, insecure with disease 
fight, flight or freeze, trauma decrees

Just been discovered!  Solution’s found!
I walk in it all around on the ground

Key’s found in this doomed body’s feelings
Hear this, she sends me her grandly warm greetings

Addiction hides, compulsion derides
accumulates massive quantity besides

of foul smelly goo that it slowly oozes
All this goo morphs, brims over, then it fuses

with lies that they told me and I told myself
It cools and it hardens to a huge gnarly shelf

of trauma’s junk rooted in every cell through
cram up my throat-dam until I go blue 

How can I feel it; huge loada crap’s in the way
Love pulses through sorrow, betrayal, and plain ol’ dismay

Rather than think hard, analyze, theorize
feel it beat, healing seat, never terrorize

Mind speculates, worries, and ruminates
unending intrigue, more dead ends to designate

Breathe consciously to observe energy’s flow
gone the throat-dam, light’s clarity I now know

Never a victim, a master in training
heart chakra focal point mindfulness reigning

Copyright © Satsatnam Khalsa | Year Posted 2018


Book: Shattered Sighs