Monday, December 30, 2013

STRUGGLE

when you've reached a level of awareness

that attests to the unity of all existence


it's hard to get worked up over the illusions

that keep us at each other's throats here in the earth


evidently the Apocalypse is an outgoing process

squeezed out of the centuries of feuding loving bloodlines


and the acts that die with us in each lifetime

but whose shames follow us from life to life


demands a restitution and a balancing

that only further shames can push to an consciousness of...


even in this new historical dispensation the petty hates

and healing loves will struggle against the reality


that is the painful absolute birth

of our eons-old souls seeking at last the imagined Finality....




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