all that is really required

is that we help those around us


but not use that help as crutch

or as a manipulation of need


help each other as we will

each of us is still on our own


and we must take care of ourselves before

we're able to take care of anyone else





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the earth is limited it's true

a manifestation of the divine

in the conditioned reality of creation


but however limited its form

it is still a divine manifestation

oh how many grieve their souls


when death is only a door that takes

their struggle back beyond the binds of the material...





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I know I should have transcended

but the love of women

has held me back


the breasts the asses the legs

the backless mules

hanging dangling off


the flexing foot at rest

the sly look-back

under the veil of long dark hair


the fragrance of sweet skin

mingling with the summer air

as swinging pelvises saunter down the street


those bodies mere physical things

but yet portals to the unknown beyond

the earthly entrance to the Essential


oh whether I'm an erotic mystic

in the throes of ecstasy

or just some mangy old horndog


in useless heat in his drunk

it is the need of completion that draws

the plus and the minus


the hot and the not...





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no matter how much you try

to tie up loose ends

and finalize your earthly business


there's always something you'll miss

something beyond your control

that will be the thread that ties you


to your karma and ties you

to future lives of trying and succeeding

or trying and failing


yes the liability's on you

and yes in your humanness

there are some things that are bound to fail


but as long as you don't impose

your limited mind as the end-all

and admit to the process of life


beyond your or anyone's control

that's when things will fall out as they should

and if you're wise you'll greet the boon


and move beyond the limits you thought

you'd never thought you'd never surmount

clinging as you do to this eventually doomed earth


but awakening to the fact of other worlds...




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we so want to know

even about ourselves


though as far as ourselves

we are always the last to know...





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an enormous mildness

underscores our riotous behavior

these days


as if we roar with bitterness

and ignorance

beyond our personal bests


only to have it fade

on the instant

by a break in the concentration


some desire turned higher octave

aspiration come at last to still

the bound feet and the shackled hands


with which we had expressed

our self-imprisonment

let this mildness come


oh it will fade and pass

as all things in creation pass

but its source is another matter


and what next issues from it

is ours also to help or hinder

to hurt or heal in our own stillness...




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I've learned to beg

to crawl to plead

for a taste of your flesh

for a drop of your love


my lone wolf days

led me to this


the taste of your flesh

the drop of your love







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