Sunday, December 20, 2020

Saṃsāra ~ Sunday, December 20, 2020

The beauty of being born untainted
        by religion or ideology,
                     obviously involves the innocent
                          baby before all indoctrination,
                                    before the mores of society
                                              undermine the unblemished mind of God;

  humanity has become a nightmare,
         even as we speak, so to speak, through words
                        forgotten since time immemorial
                                engineering language games centuries
                                        old as tricks of poets to accomplish
                                               nothing as sinister as solitude;

     enter the deception of creation,
               ancient as paintings within cave dwellings,
                               in this state of preternatural grace
                                           religion designates as beyond time,
                                                  truth be told, humans are not just mortal;

                  until we uncover this mortal coil
                                  not simply as a tool, mythology
                                          nudges us to regard the shears, the skull
                                                     attached to the spinal column, at rest;

                       tranquil as memento mori, as death,
                                     giving life threads to cut, bonds to sever,
                                                         instituting madness as divine law;

                        yet, the unborn fetus knows the body,
                                                         nothing more, nothing less than the body;

                                                               this is not a problem until after
                                                              embarking on a spiritual journey,
                                                                destiny is not a destination.

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