so it's good-bye to vision

which was only the hallucination

of an alienated soul

who couldn't mix well or play with others


the real test is accepting the divine

in the matter of the earth

and not get tangled up

in the earth whether embracing it too wholeheartedly


or turning from it

to be lost in eddys of abstraction

that entangle the mind

in its own limited workings


no none of us are fallen

our attention is just limited enough

to see the end of matter

but not the matrix from which it comes


so don't look to the heavens

for some manufactured idea of salvation

and don't embrace the earth

to the degree it absorbs you into its element


so that at the end of creation's terms

you'll subsumed back into the Unconditioned

of some Absolute we'll never know in flesh

even while it is the framework of all that is


the consciousness that is yours

will always be yours onto the death of matter

or the release into what Mystery animates the universe

that's the last sermon that's the last preaching


good-bye to vision and our own misconceptions

we're all on our way to where we really are

one day we'll awaken from our sleep and realize

eternity is exactly where we are wherever we are...



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