if it all ended tomorrow

I'd go peacefully

happy to leave a world

I no longer recognize

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REPENTANCE AT TWILIGHT

in sweet olive twilights of early summer

with the low leaning sun slipping under the western edge

I see the same instant I saw as a child


but where once there was the absence of ego

that allowed me to be the instant

now the same reverberation of being


is soaked in every ache of identity that presumed

on the higher Self in delusion of who was who and why


and yet the the green air under the leaves

glows with the same intensity and the instant


is as always is the only moment in the only Reality

and the little ego me who thought he was his true self atones


but sweetly as if the lifetime of remorse and gratitude

into this twilight as I walk beneath these branches...




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some people are out to find me

I have no support behind me

everyone's looking for a fight


let them slay each other

brother to brother

while I stand in plain sight


all I did was detach from the world

and watch these lost ones fall like autumn leaves curled




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some endure tragedies onto death

others sweat broken fingernails and missed appointments


somewhere in this absurd range of experience

is the common thread that binds us...


the will to continue

and the wisdom of perspective


to discriminate what strengthens the heart

and what darkens the soul...


mercy on those who know

or who have yet to learn


this...





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an optimist

is someone

who hasn't

suffered much




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SUCH IS THE LIFE (with a nod to Tolkien)

stumbling in this era's dispensation...


I see grass green as emeralds

and people feasting and laughing and singing

with occasionally a duck under the lip of a boulder

as a shadow glides across the field...


and so people relax...but guardedly...

relieved that no one in particular is searching them out

because if any of these others were looking

they'd find them and make holy hell of their lives


in which case...except for the manner and means...

nothing really has changed at all...

the peaceful are always prey to the predators

and the predators tear each other in their tiny famines


and life in the earth is ever tenuous...



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YET AGAIN AGAIN

so the bad guys won yet again

Big Brother has his nose and his dick

in everything now


and apologists of all stripes

make allowances for our conduct and our privacy...

this is news?


this has been coming for years...

the codification of evil in the State

or the BusinessIndustyFinance complex


into an all-embracing (all smothering)

techno-environment...

all long last the Kings of the World have their earthly dominance...


and...so what? what can be done against it?


die out in your own true righteousness

and help any going your way...


the rest are lost until they wake up and release

the complying Egos that kill the Self


as another era of karma plays itself out...




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