Category: Poetry

This Day I Am Born

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In your deepest self there lies awakening
Growing and evolving all the time
Opening and reassociating
At ever higher levels of the mind

In your deepest heart there is a silence
Beating with a mindful rhythmic grace
Asking you to listen to it’s secrets
Open to receive it’s gentle space

Deep within the soul that you are feeling
In the quiet moments that you give
Lies a nourishment that brings you healing
Welcomed by the mind’s desire to live

Life wells from within and rises gently
Soaking up through spongey open cells
Flooding all the senses, taking over
Rippling past a thousand silent bells

Vibrations of a pure, divine order
Shudder through this extraneous form
Radiance, bequeathed to my acceptance
Comes alive in me – this day, I’m born

Look What Happens!

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Look what happens when I give my life to you
Little things, things I could not have dreamed of
Alone

Look what happens when I give my life to you
The void dispersed, the darkness cleared, and you can comfort me
At last

Look! Look what happens when I give my life to you
Your perfect entreaties that I be that which I am are finally considered
Deemed acceptable, and embraced
With arms open to the heart that speaks in bottomless glory to the soul in surrendered joy

Look! Look what happens when I give my life to you
All longings dispersed, discarded, rendered redundant, relinquished, released

All pain and fear of future loss removed and renounced
I am resigned to the ever-present incoming flood of unfettered beauty and peace that you are

Look! Just look what happens when I give my life to you
Look what happens when I give my life to you
Look what happens…

Here, now, just.. look!

Everyone Knows

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Everyone knows how beautiful you are
Everyone knows the extent to which you give your whole heart to everyone
Everyone knows how extraordinary the light that pours from your purity of soul
Everyone sees it, throughout the universe and further into realms that words do not have presence for

Everyone knows how much you shine
Everyone feels the light that radiates eternally through your expression
Everyone knows the beauty of your sacred smile that blooms and sheds its petals in swathes of gentle colour, lighting up the pathway for the ones who follow on

Everyone sees the depths you think you go to, to deny the promise that you gave us
Everyone sees, and no one cares, but you

Everyone just… waits
Waits for you to finally understand
That everyone knows how beautiful you are, how much you give, how much you love for the pure sake of loving

Can you not now give yourself to this…
This that everyone, everyone knows?

In My Loving Service to You

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Inspired by Sri Chimnoy, from Seventy Seven Thousand Service Trees

The beauty of self-giving
Eventually grows into
The fragrance of God-becoming.

Sri Chinmoy, Seventy Seven Thousand Service Trees, part 10, #18

In my loving service to you
Let me be gratified in depths before unknown
Unreached by chimes of playful servitude

Let me experience the need of my soul
To give truly, unexceptionally, perfectly
Without the mask of human intervention

Let me be released through giving to the joy of your true gratitude
That welcomes all who come with gentle determination to be truly free

In my loving service to you
Let me be taken apart and rendered unimaginable without you

In my loving service to you
Let me at last in sincerity abide
Let me at last to your wholeness attend
Let me at last bequeath my wanting to your waiting heart
And commit at last to wanting only you

Your intrinsic heaven is your constant gift to all who seek for meaning in it’s only home
Your intrinsic wholeness is the life that beats it’s constant glorious drum
Harmonising with Itself, attuning to it’s own accession with everything that it counts in as it’s own

Allow me to include myself in this heavenly, uniting chorus.
Allow me to experience myself as truly part of your whole, expressive joy

Help me allow myself release of every boundary I have clung to
As I learn to give myself, through my loving service
To the guiltless ardour of your eternally encompassing arms

Heaven is the decision I must make. I make it now and will not change my mind, because it is the only thing I want.

A Course in Miracles – Lesson 138

Some Form of Peace

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Your answer is always some form of peace
And I am alone again
Chaos relieved and released
A shambles of stories, beliefs
Infinitely familiar
Removed and uprooted, like brambles
Cut back and displaced
Erased, eradicated, reduced to nothing
Lifted, risen, raised
Above the battlefield again
My mind is gentle
You are here with me in love
Angel of simplicity
You are love
All thoughts about things
Eradicated, simplified, released
There is nothing in my determination to be in conflict
I choose peace
You are with me and I have nothing else to choose
I am still now
Mind bent yesterday on defamation
Of everything peaceful and clear
Now you are with me
I return into the simplicity of your love for me
I return into the clarity of my total responsibility
I return into the gentleness of my invulnerability
I am released
And you are here with me.
Thank you
Your answer is always some form of Peace

God’s Answer Is Some Form Of Peace. All Pain Is Healed;
All Misery Replaced With Joy. All Prison Doors Are Opened
And All Sin Is Understood As Merely A Mistake.

A Course in Miracles, Lesson 359

The Sacred Meeting

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I have nothing to do but fall in love
The passionate wakings of my heart desire to keep, to enfold every human being within its infinite well
I have only love for you
In your shock, in your devastation, in your silent unheard longing for a reason, any reason at all
I am here for you
I cannot understand a hardened mind but love can penetrate, creeping, and find the vulnerability of a separated soul
Lost and alone and in desperate need of release from its self-evident constriction
Let me take you inside me
Inside my energetic structure, far beyond bodily or physical concerns
Let me take you into me
Penetrate my deepest longing to communicate with what I have held outside myself
Let me let you inside
Where we meet in gentle recognition of Self-hood conflict is forever loosened, the rusted grievance lubricated and released, nothing holds us together in solitude and anguish anymore
We can meet in gratitude
We can meet in certainty
We can meet, we can only meet, in love

Home

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Thank you for being with me
In great depths
And endless openings

Thank you for being with me
Clarity of mind and depth of spirit
There is no deeper place that could be touched
Beyond where you touch me
And yet, at each touch, that place is deeper still

Thank you for being with me
Your presence, iridescent in my mind
Cuts through contradiction
And simultaneously comforts, without exception

Take me into the depths of your soul
Somehow, I can open finally to you

Every mind could teach the beauty that you teach
But somehow, I let in in from you
There is a desperation, a longing, a burning desire
For the truth

It is the chrysalis in which I am digesting myself
To awaken fresh into the blessed Spirit’s air
Comfort me, oh depths of limitless being

Behold, the glorious simplicity of Self-knowledge,
Self-acceptance, self released

Behold my burgeoning beauty
Far beyond the devious flesh

The helm of love awakens
And directs its secretly joyful journey
Home

Loosening

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Structures loosening
Spreading
Fibres separating
Finding space between strands
Quantum existence becoming tangible
Space being discovered in solid form
By the mind desperate to renew itself
And revelling, calm, in the quiet faith of certainty

Mind is form, form is mind
No space for separation
No space between forms, only within form itself
The space that encompasses, takes up, everything

Quantum experience reiterated
Repeated
Again and still again

Instants of wholeness
Perfectly formless recognition
Genuine beauty
Freedom
And bliss

Here I am Father!
Here I am Nature!
Here I am Holy Source!

Bequeath me of your glorious innocence of all form!
Surround, encompass and penetrate my being with your unearthly magnitude!
And let me know, cherish, remember, give, extend, your heavenly alms to all who delve within the images of my mind

You are mine forever
Here forever
Teasing, gently teasing apart the strands of the fabric of my listless reality

Come take me apart
Come loosen the fibres of my woven seams
Come loosen the threads of my undeserving hostility
Come rectify the heavy chains I have dictated in my fiendish, presumptuous dreams

Come into me fully
My heavenly counsellor
Your true beauty is beyond compare

As you enter the fabric of my costume and begin to separate the woven fibres of my dense material being
You make space
For me
To see
You

Be Nothing

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Be nothing
Being nothing
Is being Everything

Be nothing here
If you are something in a place of nothing
You are nothing in a place of Everything

How to be nothing?
Well, don’t be something!
Divest yourself momentarily of the need to be something
Divest yourself entirely of the need to be anything

Be nothing
Let Everything show you what you are
How can Everything show you One-thing
If you’re already something (that is nothing?)

You are already Everything!
Beyond That is nothing!
Outside That is nothing.

You, here, now, divested of everything
Be Nothing
Know Nothing
See Nothing
Let yourself be shown Something

Doing Nothing

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Forgiveness is
Doing nothing

Standing or sitting still
And waiting
For the energetic release that empties you of everything
That empties you of the world
That shows you the world is nothing
That empties you of you
That shows you you are the world
That shows you you are nothing

Forgiveness is
Releasing everythingre

No specifics exist
For you to hold onto

Forgiveness is holy, non-specific
Whole mind, wholly, non-locality
Experienced in mind and body
Felt as resurrecting cells

This is a physical resurrection
Your awakening to wholeness
You ARE a body
If not, why do you need the lesson:
“I am not a body, I am free?”
But that you believe that you are bodily,
Physical, limited, contained

Forgiveness is
The release of location to non-locality
You, literally, disappearing

So does the world really disappear?
It already did
In one holy instant of forgiveness

You discover you are nothing
God is everything
And you are God