Another Day In Paradox.

"Another Day In Paradox"

For someone so genuine, I can feel so fake.
For one so ambitious, I still shy from fate.
I have known madness for sanity's sake.
I can be early...arriving so late.

I can be one person...ditto the world.
I can talk all day and not mean a word.
External boy meets internal girl,
Joy after hurt, Sky becomes bird.

Can you lose patience waiting for nothing?
Looking back, can you see ahead?
Can you find truth while sleeping gods lie?
Could it be life that scares you to death?

It's like being knifed in the back when all you want is to spoon in your bed.
It's finding a fork in the road when all you want is to walk the path of absolute Oneness.
Is it all in yOUR head, Oh alien Goddess?

It's like smoking the weed found in a field full of flowers.
It's You knowing Eternity in a single short hOUR.

I feel most like a man when I allow myself to be held at all.
I feel my most feminine when catching, throwing or kicking a ball.
I feel my most wise when I AM still...and at my most stupid when speaking.
I can lose myself in music yet find myself in silence.
In a world seeking violence...I AM a Peace seeking You.

To see in the dark...become the Light.
No matter who is wrong, everyONE's right.
Choose your thoughts before thinking your choice.
Enjoy the pain...regain...rejoice.

I see a stranger in the mirror yet can walk around a city of a million people and see my many faces reflected.
I can feel so alone in a roomful of people yet feel so loved whilst watching a sunrise on my own undetected.
By day I can wander around aimlessly as if within a dream yet be ONEdrously lucid whilst asleep at night.

To understand Light, I've created shadow.
To comprehend Hope, I've invented sorrow.
Time is free and never borrowed,
Today is yesterday's unfolding tomorrow.

My friends exist in memories not yet created.
Photos from the future...images now faded.
I accept everything I had once truly hated.
I have nothing, yet...I have made it.

An angel in hell, Do you ever feel...
you're everywhere at once,
yet now-here at all?
Would you know summer,
Could you rise up,
Without the winter,
without the fall?

It's tasting the sweet within the sour.
It's finding the lion behind the mask of a coward.
I AM One...Being...the all.
...the echo creating the original call.

To live in the moment, turn away from the clocks.
A singular feather, as one as a flock.
We'll come together to gather, to welcome...
Another day in Paradox.

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Written : November 2004
By Another Point of You...
OM

ps(st) -

"In order to transcend Duality...One must firstly immerse one's self in it...

To fly above the ground...one must firstly take off from the ground.

...and to know ONEness, 'One' must have once been the many."

[the answer to Life is a pair'o'ducks...quack quack]

"The way of paradoxes is the way of truth."
~ Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British Author)

Infinite Hymn.

On the tip of this poet's pen,
you will find a particular atom.
Now I shall reveal to you something here
that I know you are ready to fathom.

At the center of this atom is a nucleus,
This nucleus being your Sun.
And your planets are all the electrons and such,
which orbit this little 'ol one.

There is a planet within this system,
whose inhabitants know of as Earth.
They will be there to witness its death
as they were there to aid in its birth.

There once was a man on this planet.
A poet by the name of Adam.
One day he studied the tip of his pen
and pondered the life of that atom.

Within, within infinite hymn.
Within, within, within.
Within, within, within, hymn,
Within infinite hymn.

A Light Spell.

With every breath I hereby take
I know Reality my Thoughts create
I ask that my Destiny unfold and bloom
By the Powers of Earth, the Sun, the Moon
I send out Love, I send out Light
And merge all colour to create the White
to protect my Soul from that which is dark
to ignite the Glow in this magic spark.
As my Wishes come true, I promise to do
All that is Good and Loving and True
I summon the ONE within the All
to bring Life to this Spell...
To hear my Call!

See-Saw.

For every moment we love,
There's a pillow stained with tears.
For every hope we harbour,
There's a day we run in fear.
For every smile we come across,
There's a suicidal clown.
For every drug we swallow,
Eventually there's a come-down.
For every hurting child,
There's a parent with regret.
For every disappointment,
There's a promise we accept.
For every time we pray,
There's a sin which we commit.
For every truth we tell,
There's a portion we omit.
For every lover who ups and leaves,
There's always one who'll stay.
And for every sleepless night,
Don't forget there's always Sunday.

Dear Human.

Are you reading this, or are you being read?
Are you living, or are you being lived?
Are you breathing, or are you being breathed?
Are you the dreamer, or are you the dream?

Never just accept what your senses tell you
Never just accept what society teaches you
Never just accept what your mind concludes
Never just accept that which you think is you

Are you the chicken, or are you the egg?
Are you the ink, or are you the pen?
Are you the lover, or are you the loved?
Are you the All, or are you the One?

Never just accept what your parents tell you
Never just accept what the mirror shows you
Never just accept a popular view
Always question what you think is you

Dear Human,
If you could only see who you truly are,
You'd see that wishing upon YOU,
there's a shooting star.

From An Electron To A Star.

"From An Electron To A Star"

I exploded forth - violently gently...
in a matter of seconds and three thousand centuries.
Existing together as One of Twelve to experience the Wholeness of a separate self.
I orbit, I travel, I fulfill a rotation, until I awaken to full realization.
I fall and I weep one tear of humility. I rise from my sleep, and discover Infinity.

I AM You - the reader, I AM also the Word,
I AM Love on a walk through a beautiful world.
I'm your smile, your shyness, your amazing grace.
I AM the mirror You created to show You yOUR Face.

I know not what is boredom.
I feel not what is heartache,
for these are only illusions of this present incarnate.

As I sit back and unfocus my vision,
I see colour and shapes with new precision.
As I look back and re-learn all that I know,
I renounce certain shots taken so long ago.

The architectural geometry of a Master so Divine,
continues to bewilder my heart and my mind.
I give my intent to be All that I AM.
I know what can be done through this solitary man.

I aim for the heavens with my feet in the Earth,
to anchor the Light and be All that I'm worth.
I breath in yOUR essence as yoU breathe out my naME.
One and the Other...One and the Same.

Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
From an electron to a star,
How I see now who You are.

Another (sparkling) Point of You : OM...

Birds Of All Feathers Are One Together.

The Phoenix, The Dove & The Dodo.

One day a Dodo bird was 'imprisoned' within a cage for harming another. Why did he harm another? Because he still believed in the illusion of separation. If he only knew that he & the other birds of his flock were ONE, would he have consciously set out to harm him/their/The One Self?

Now, why did this Dodo bird still believe in the illusion of separation? Because it was a belief upheld (& therefore perpetuated) by, the rest of the flock. As go one, so go All.

The Dodo bird's cage was and is, a strong symbolic representation, thereby hence creating an actual physical manifestation of his belief that he is separate. It is also symbolic of that flock's belief that this one bird is not a part of Itself. One might call this state of affairs - A loop of blind tragedy.

Yes this 'cage' is necessary to prove a point - If this be the choice of All involved. However it takes but one bird to wake up and fly for the self-created 'cage' to disintegrate into the illusion that it essentially is.

Two day, a Dove awoke and sang in jubilant joy at the revelation that it existed purely to recognise, appreciate & unconditionally love its Self - (the 'other' birds of its flock).

She understood that as she healed, the flock also healed. When she danced, the flock danced. And when she evolved, the flock collective evolved. As go one, so go All.

When she helped another, she knew at a deeply profound level, that she was in fact helping her Self. As she 'counselled' another, that advice & compassion invariably came back to her through her Self. She understood that 'All is a reflection of one...as one is a reflection of the All'.

Day Three, and The One Phoenix bird was simply being...Its Self. This grand & majestic being comprised of many 'parts'. Miraculously, each of its 'single' parts was also a complete Whole unto Itself. As go one, so go ('another') All.

It was a poetic as well as literal example of Infinity, in all directions.

In this flock, only Freedom is known. When one knows only freedom, cages are no longer necessary. When one unconditionally loves The Self, 'imprisonment' is impossible. And when one becomes The One (without losing its sense of 'YOUniqueness')...the illusion of separation, confusion, anger, jealousy, hate, fear, pain & greed, etc etc etc, shatters into a thousand crumbled ruins of an old paradigm.

BUT......and there's a necessary ending (or is it a 'beginning'?) to this 'flighty' parable.

The freedom of the Phoenix DEPENDS on the caging of the Dodo.

Each variable is invariably an invaluable part of the process.

The decision we now face at this crucial time is this: Which 'bird' do we want to be? Which bird will we become?

There is no right or wrong answer...There is only, a simple Choice.

'cuckoo cuckoo':

"To be free of the cage, Know that you are that which imprisons you...Then, you shall fly."