No More

I am standing on top of a mountain
I am yelling at the top of my voice
I don't want to wait any longer
I want it all and I want it now, no more!

I am done with being a beggar
I am finished with wishing for more
I am tired, I am hungry, I am weary
And I need to, I need to be home

A Flowing Thought

I saw a sign on a car which read these words, possibly of wisdom or of a blind belief. And the sentence was: "we are spiritual beings having a physical experience." 

Perhaps, you too have seen them in front of your eyes. Perhaps, they made you think or wonder. Or just ponder. And perhaps, you just glanced over them and continued eating your chocolate ice cream. Clearly having a physical and a pleasurable experience at that.

Seeing that I have been exposed to this bumper sticker on several occasions, I actually gave it some attention this time.

Assuming the sentence is the truth, shouldn't we have a direct experience of our being? Shouldn't we take time to know what and who it is? And not simply believe in such a phenomenon. Otherwise, life goes on and only the physical reality is at the fingertips. 

And since physicality is not who we really are, we're missing the juice of it all. I think the time has come to give this slogan a go.

The Tree

A picture in front of me. 

Hanging on the wall.

A trunk of a tree.

A small part of a tree trunk.

A close up.

A word enters the mind.

Texture.

Mesmerizing texture.

The kind you want to run your fingers over and feel.

Next word.

Endless shapes.

Intricate shades.

Varying crevasses.

Smooth and rough lines.

All part of the bark.

Straight lines.

Convoluted lines.

Diagonal lines.

Thick and thin edges.

The depth seems grand.

There is a richness that intrigues you.

It speaks of wisdom. Of knowing. Of solidity.

Words come fast and furious as I observe the power in front of me.

Words that describe you.

The Cards

All the cards say one thing:
Love, stability, joy
Eternal and endlessly

Do not worry
Do not overthink
You know what you want
Go get it 
It's there for thee

Sunday

It felt like Sunday was the day
But Monday strolled on by
And still you never came

And moments tick
While the hours tock
Pages turn themselves
As they should or might

Give me the strength to go ahead
Let me be here and not hesitate
Fall from the sky into my arm
Keep me together the entire time

Wishing and waiting
Waiting and going
Staying on foot
Crawling and flowing

Monday is gone 
Tuesday is next
Day after day
Breath by breath

Picture to reveal itself

Final Stop

It might have been the mountains 
It might have been the wind
With you I allowed myself to dream
Of things I hadn't dared to think
Since I had the youthful drink

You say the sweetest and kindest things
And the tears well up in the shape of a kiss
Your being exploding with wanting to live
It's ignited, it's loaded, it's ready to breathe

I don't know what is real or what life will bring
I don't know the answers to the questions not so unique
You must walk the road that's been clearly marked
Give the ones who belong to you a fighting chance

I am only a ghost with a healing touch
Whose needs and longings are of no consequence
It is you who was born to lead the crowds
Take your grand family to the altar of the beyond

You're equipped with everything
Needed to reach the final stop

May You Fly

So big
And so grand
Welcomes all
Into his world
Space enough
To hold a crowd
Every one
Feels loved
And valued

Thinks in bold
Walks alone
Inspires others
Finds new ground
Never halts
Or rests his mind
Searching
Seeking
To reach new heights

May you really fly

New Shoes

Before buying new shoes
Clean out the closet
Get all the webs and the dust hidden under the covers
Buy new paint, a new light, a key for the door
Make space for the new light to come over
Get help from the handyman, the maid, and a ghost
They, too, have your happiness as their foremost
Don't rush but don't stall
Keep sweeping the floor
A path to be empty
Of all that has grown stale and old

Nothing Within

You always knew there was more
But the ego took the best of you
You wanted to be the best of it all:
a businessman, a husband, a lover and that's not all

And life slowly took you down several times
To break down the man created from outside
And each time you rose and got bigger still
Yet, a little of you had died with each fall

And now you have fallen to a different depth
This isn't the fall you're used to experiencing
It caught you so gently and lowered you down
To arise from this requires a different know-how

This is the biggest fall of the ego yet
While it feels so right and brings peace to the head
This life has been knocking on your door for a while
It is taking you back to the original "how?"

May you come out on the other side
May you walk into the unknown right now
May you stroll with the ease of a king
While you become nothing within

Cooking

hey! do you know there is this place 
where birds sing a song and the ice doesn't melt?
well, of course you have been there and not simply once
you have seen it and been it and tasted the chaos

but beyond the known mundane is a world of the sane
where black becomes a blue and sometimes a nameless hue
and what seems to be a cave has a light of one ordained
while the naked eye's asleep, all seems crazy and incomplete

yet when sitting on the floor feeling snake rising from the core
new horizons and dimensions open up and move like honey
in the sweetness felt inside, giving birth to all that's right
disappear is what you need, life bursts forth with race car speed

Going Into

Go into it totally
Whatever it may be
Fear or jealousy
Or a sweet kiss

Everything is known
On the other side of the coin
If you're willing to walk
The entire road

Hold me completely
Hold me complete
Breathe in my innocence
You might be redeemed

Life is too big
To fit into a box
Spread out your wings
Grace will take you up

A Shared Gift

An ugly game has been set in motion
There is no grace
Just fear, pain and poison

To put a human in a restraint
Whose thirst to fly 
Pushes all constraint

We need to live and learn to see
Those who know 
Say we're deeply asleep

And that is what's true and that is what hurts
And that is why we need to be coaxed 
Coerced, at times pushed, as if by a coach

The trench is deep of ignorance
The scars from lives gone by
Go deeper than even that

To wake to a morning without a cloud
To embrace the love felt all-around
To envelope the presence right next to you
To soar to the sky
A gift from the divine 
Shared by me and you

Wind For Your Sail

You were walking to the right for a decade or four
Moving right along to the wide open door
Then a cloud appeared and showered you from above
And love arose from your very core

You had no choice but to keep looking up
You started to run in hopes of catching the moving star
Yet those heavy chains kept your ankles restrained
While the soul began to sing of longings long tamed

And the question becomes how to walk out of the fire
With grace and poise and no pebble turned upside down
It takes wisdom and skill and complete honesty
I'll be the wind for your sail as the journey begins

The Cosmic Dance

You see me sitting across the room
You feel invited by the strength of my moon
You take a step toward the subtle flame
I look at you and barely invite you to stay

You now sit down and hear a story
It sounds quite weird and out of the ordinary
You want to know the scenes behind
You inquire deeply into the words out of my mouth

You begin to follow and I take the lead
One day life will allow for a reversal, indeed
Maybe you'll be the lead and I will follow you
Into the night, toward the wall-less room