You can be glad Fire is great, river is strong You know it You know you belong You know a deeper love There you can let all things go Listen to the silence Be there Be there The inner calling Now
In life you fall You make mistakes First you want to hide, later to be seen Yet, you can be glad You know you belong The deeper love, is what you know In the silence So, be there Be Now
Keep walking this road Live each moment Then let it go, as you prepare for more You can be glad Don’t need to believe You know You know The silence tells you, all you need Keep going there Be in it Go
I may say we need to be present, to feel alive in creation Yet, in my blaming of the other, I miss the target unseen It is I who hurry, I too go out of my way, to make everyone’s perfect day
A sudden glimpse reveals the secret, how to just presently be, the model of life I point to so eagerly
I let the image of you disappear, swallow my shadow raw I stretch my ear and lean within to become a silent, available soil
As I sit in silence, roots drinking from this newfound fountain, I see two golden lizards gracefully circling in a coil of bodies
Narrow my window had become I could barely breathe, barely live in this or their temple Then they closed it, window shut I fell, I was lost Trapped in the kingdom, of the desperate and dying What had been a small light, now gone I was nobody’s son
Soon lost at sea Searching wherever Seemed like I’d never find new land Monsters in the deep, dragons in the sky Fire burning, a salamander’s torch So thirsty
That’s when I saw the flicker, from a distant lamp Oil kept it going, until my hand held the light I suddenly saw all its might It created a terrible fright I would have to fight, a wrestling for my life, my own soul
The angel from the deep, entered upon the land Was it also a woman, was it man? I couldn’t know Yet the angel’s sword bruised me in the dark The wound bled red I cried into the Silence, and fell to my knees
It was a new beginning, there on my knees The red, bleeding wound received a silent balm I sensed fresh air, I could breathe I saw a window open, then all windows gone My breathing got deep, and I drank from a rich well Everything opened
Oh day of glory, when I could leave behind, the barren land of agony The principals were taken When I woke up, like from a dream, I was standing on my feet Made new, in the image of One, I had now become
I sensed freedom New adventures awaited I was made for living after all I sensed another call
I sensed a sudden shift I felt uplifted And I was My eyes still shut close I felt a warm breeze I sensed tears filling up, behind the eyes’ curtains
I lifted my hands, my body still resting on knees I heard myself saying, no please, no please I felt a blow to my stomach, and breathed out one full breath
I felt strange pain Felt lifted again, yet heavy No please, no please, I heard myself plead It wasn’t me, but something else
Eyelids now cracked open, waves of tears flowing Out of my control Again I suffered another heavy blow Yet, soon pain was lifted Crying turned to sobbing
Steps, almost too silent to hear A breeze again, warm I wasn’t alone in the garden The breeze passed me Abruptly, I stood up Calling the visitor back
My feet now above the ground A presence felt all around A warmth, comforting Soft tears, transformed Again, a weight pushed me to my knees
A deep knocking My hand on my chest A vision of veins and deep red What had me uplifted, now sensed within My lips curved upwards
I whispered, it wasn’t me, this, wasn’t me Yet, it, was there, within I lingered, silent, there, on my knees
A Contemplative Life 