Visionless
Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008
by Jeff Brown
Inner Projection
Fear and Pride
O how they blind.
How the world runs from itself
And the Mercy it could find--working
Prattle, commotion, cheap fantasy
To keep fear and healing at bay.
Surely we can learn in wise passivity:
Grief to instruct; knowledge
To come of sorrow's embrace; those with
Depth mourning deepest over fatal truth.
Yet all fails without listening, the companion of calm,
The cousin of truth. Instructful and giving its talents,
Benign and gentle its prompt.
Without it Insights are tucked away, lost
With fear and pride,
Which gouge the spiritual eye.
What beauty lies in the light.
If we look long and deep
The scales of darkness
Will fall from our eyes.
There will be no need to mourn.
With unbound vision one will discover
Grief and despair are as essential as joy and hope,
Refining tools to shape the mortal clay.
Great knowledge only acquired through opposition,
Becoming Immortal, divine discernment when touched by vigilant Humility,
Tempered passion and long suffering hope,
A preface to joy, true joy, exultation even,
Wherein seeing you is seeing me.
Then we will touch upon perfection and
The sucking child will play on the hole of the asp,
O how they blind.
How the world runs from itself
And the Mercy it could find--working
Prattle, commotion, cheap fantasy
To keep fear and healing at bay.
Surely we can learn in wise passivity:
Grief to instruct; knowledge
To come of sorrow's embrace; those with
Depth mourning deepest over fatal truth.
Yet all fails without listening, the companion of calm,
The cousin of truth. Instructful and giving its talents,
Benign and gentle its prompt.
Without it Insights are tucked away, lost
With fear and pride,
Which gouge the spiritual eye.
What beauty lies in the light.
If we look long and deep
The scales of darkness
Will fall from our eyes.
There will be no need to mourn.
With unbound vision one will discover
Grief and despair are as essential as joy and hope,
Refining tools to shape the mortal clay.
Great knowledge only acquired through opposition,
Becoming Immortal, divine discernment when touched by vigilant Humility,
Tempered passion and long suffering hope,
A preface to joy, true joy, exultation even,
Wherein seeing you is seeing me.
Then we will touch upon perfection and
The sucking child will play on the hole of the asp,
The weaned child will play his hand on the
cockatrice's den, and we will believe as the innocent
And become as the tenured steward,
A child in glory of the purpose he has found.
cockatrice's den, and we will believe as the innocent
And become as the tenured steward,
A child in glory of the purpose he has found.
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