If I reach for it
I can take it
Pleasure I want to grasp
But if I grab it
I regret it
Stuck in pain’s aftermath
Money won’t buy me happiness
Even if I dock my yacht nearby
A life of wealth and flashiness
Won’t stop death’s sudden goodbye
Rocked to sleep in the arms of desire
Only to sink deeper into attachment’s nightmare
If I take and steal my fortune
I may break and die of exhaustion
Unknowing that I’ve been neglectful of
The giving of living the true meaning of love
I may acquire and save vast treasure
But still expire craving past pleasure
A clinging upbringing
Skews a worldview
Being taught at the beginning
To own the best view
It’s giving that gives meaning
Not taking and selfish dreaming
Giving love to oneself and love to all
Befriending all hearts, forgiving their faults
Opening beyond what we thought we knew
Un-centering my part to be whole and breakthrough
The loneliness of separateness
The rigidness of fearfulness
The cold-heartedness of meanness
The solipsism of narcissism
The isolationism of protectionism
The egotism of perfectionism
The dank reductionism of rank racism
Let’s cast that aside, uncross our third eyes
Find peace to abide in, love to synchronize
When we relinquish, unloose, release, and let go
We extinguish, diffuse, our greedy I’s, then we know
That it’s all about stopping, quitting, and halting hubris
Dropping and aborting any struggle to improve this
But when we’re in the murk in a muddle in the dark we’re befuddled
But in the middle, with no jiggle, shines the brilliance of stillness
At the core in the center of thought’s cacophony cyclone
There’s a door that we enter where no pathologies are enthroned
Finding harmony in clarity and emptiness in eternity
Is nothing, sweet nothing, nothing else compares
To an infinity of empathy that’s calm, coherent, and aware
In mystical timeless multi-dimensionality
Ringing in lyrical silence in concurrent universality
Consciousness that’s anonymous
With clairvoyance in commonness
Overflowing in the freedom of no escape
Facing the vile while embracing limitless space
No boundaries no mind no mindscape
No memories no time no blind faith
Just listening to symphonies so sublime
While glistening epiphanies sing rhythm and rhyme
Synchronicity thrives in simplicity
Authenticity survives in vulnerability
We tune in to the out-breath and are zero
Lucidity in equanimity
Availability to serendipity
We find peace in the death of the ego
– Colin Farish
