I have watched
so many times
Devoted ones
Pursuing peace
embracing mind
willing participants
of every kind
projects and plans
meant to transform the land
plows and plots to
cause Awakening
Eventually their feet would falter
Clay clodden
a growing despair upon their chin
winded now from efforting
their once voluminous breath of spirit
expelled
A strain would stretch them
tight face
tenacious grip
tetchy spirit
hypersensitized
witch
Exhaustion from being good
began to murder every minute
motions of ritual and routine
as they withdraw
from projects and place
stoically expressing
gratitude without grievance
the light in their eyes fading
the promise of the path
failing
their heavy heart flailing
grieving for the loss of
aspiration
why more pain and expectation?
The shame.
Imagined fellowship floundering
tenuous links
to old lives and kitchen sinks
of right and wrong ways
Highways and byways
crazy intersection
craving creature comfort
esteem
the familiar draw once more
back
home safe
burrowing to curl
dark nesting corners
agreements about mondays
no word of other realities
certain of responsibility for pain
they become waylain
l o n g
f o r g o t t e n
what the promise was for?
Not a person in a world
who wanted to maintain
but a Spirit without restraint!

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You are tired?
Good rest,
Let go!
Do not continue to feather your nest.
Lay down your arms,
cast off the weight of expectation
and crumple into a messy pile.
Let all plans die.
Deny the impetus to buck up and be
sink deeper still into the sea
You are afraid of going under?
Where else did you think deeper would be?
Down, down,
past all the inflated clowns
of consciousness,
Beyond what you can see,
Deeper still
’till all personal ability
has been questioned
and all hope relinquished.
Yield
Right of Way
Sink like a stone
in this surrender experiment
So that God may make you the rock
on which he founds His faith.
Devoid of embellishment,
simple, strong,
Perfectly suited to
His needs
A rock can do nothing wrong
or right
Exhale
Stiller still
Aware you cannot carry your own weight
Rest at the bottom of your being
Relinquish the dream
of heroic achieving
of gratitude for giving
of fantasies and fictions
release all your convictions
your honor and nobility
your usefulness and credulity
and lay
flat
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uphold nothing
feel the relief
weep
you but sleep
a stirring will wake you
a light flutter
where you thought
only dead and decay
a lift
like a feather
tethered no more
a soft swish
of remembering
a light response
from beyond “me”
feint glow
envelopes thee
a buoyant breath
revives
BE
touch spine heat
illuminate
no shadow
neath
nor over
lift
a rush
of inspection
no effort
detection
rise
as lightly
as a breeze
float
Liquid gold suffuses
radiant light
siphons
a tractor beam
embrace
no trace
of trying
Taken
eternity
expanding
all
the
WAY
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