When clouds part and as rays of sunshine
Disperse sorrow
You will remember at that moment how you looked
Before you were born
You emerged from the unseen
To be acknowledged
You eased through the formless
To be formed
Opening your presence of daily gifts
To finally view yourself as you truly are
Sensing that if enlightenment’s features could be gleaned,
You would have seen its perfect face by now:
With fragmentation to be complete
Confusion to become clear
Ambivalence to be committed
Frustration to yield to spontaneity
And fear to bolster stalwart courage. Bigots to begot saints
Bitterness to never overlook sweet
Bias to embolden compassion
And enmity to father the children of inclusion –
Loopy duplicity yields to unified grace
Whenever the constancy of suffering
Acknowledges a crescent moon of awakening
And there’s no longer reserved space
For your friends with PhD’s in fence sitting
As you meet Siamese twins of your subconscious
Whenever despair lays bare bedazzled jubilation –
Disease reveals health
Lack announces abundance
And hindsight concedes to foresight.
I spot you amongst the teeming billions
By your fear and your insight
By shadows and your courage
Of incendiary brilliance. Join me
As stalemate is flabbergasted
When separation accompanies reunion to the prom
Chaperoned by opportunity’s infectious singing. La la la la la
Grin, beloved – no one alive is dancing here
Save some timorous whispers in eternity
When the dead wear corsages
And enemies arise from their coffins
Haters unexpectedly become lovers
And the road to transformation
Is littered with ecstasy and debris –
Witnessing your bubbling pitcher of ice-cold Spirit,
I ask for your ID
Once you’re wholly recognized by others
In the fullness of nothing
And the sacredness of everything
Is no longer concealed
To plan a family reunion
With pieces of yourself
Which ran away
And then call yourself home.
It’s past time to savor perfection
And graduate with endless degrees
From ambivalence
To skillful mobility –
From experiential scarring
To sacred, unblemished soulful skin –
From an antifreeze of toxic logic to spontaneity –
Past all-night, breezy drive-throughs of ignorance
Far beyond local zip codes
Which comprehend hubbub voices
And derelict din
Designed to tease you to linger and explore
Openings of your most reticent throat
For celestial choirs of melody within.
A poet’s daily jog of espresso
Rejoices near eternity’s arbors of blood-red roses
Racing ahead with assistance
To roust rollicking bunk mates
From passionate gardens
And then to your lingering bed
Forgoing high glycemic sugars of one-night stands –
Knowing instead
How mistress fate
And the mastery of outlandish fortune
Bang furiously upon your shipwrecked door
When you’re freed with everything you’ve been given
To seed
And also to blossom
Intoxicating petals of these quite curious hours.
How is it
That I love you
A stranger
So passionately
When we’ve never met? Each one of us
Are fingerprints upon hands God has dealt us
And all the more ironic that you’re oddly identical
To every unique person who’s ever breathed. Ever so tenderly
I kiss your eyelids within time’s embrace,
Uplifted and emblazoned,
Released here and now
To the inevitability of gladness …. …. Farewell – farewell –
Since precious few moments remain
When integration is absolutely required
Yet then freed within these inspired, searing instants
From a winking insouciance of immediacy
To a lasting quickening
By wisdom’s ever solemn gravity
Liberated at last in the Godspeed of immortal light.
by © Darius Gottlieb … www.PoetPhotos.com
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