I am a finite particle
Within the infinity of existence,
One small drop in an enormous ocean,
And yet I AM the infinity of existence,
I AM the enormous ocean,
If only I erase the border I've drawn to define
The Sovereign Nation of Me.
Author notes
inspired by a random opening of the book "The Sacred Yes" ("Letters From the Infinite, Volume 1, as revealed to Rev. Deborah L. Johnson), which yielded this wonderful reading:
"You pray for the Oneness, you talk about the Oneness, but most of you are scared to death of it because you fear that you will be lost in its Allness. This is a scary thing to the ego, because the ego knows of itself only be contrast and comparison. And if it all comes together and melts and merges into the One, then where are you within the scheme of things?
This is part of the difficulty with your being able to demonstrate peace on earth. It means that each of you has to relinquish some of the identities that you have had about yourselves and who you are in order to experience your oneness with other people. It means that you will have to rethink who you are within the scheme of the world."
If anyone reading this happens to live in the Santa Cruz, CA area (other than tyji, who took me there, and gave me the book... THANKS, t~) by all means, go to The Church of Inner Light, the Rev. Deb is PHENOMENAL!
A contest entry
- We Are All One by tanzanite.
600 points, ended December 5, 2006, 13 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
Comments
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I arrive here
with the Poetics Bandits at my side!
to read and enjoy this beautiful poem...
some happy thoughts popped up while delving into your poetry here!
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Yes leave it to you...
This is a reflective piece and I know where you are coming from. I thought it was well written like all your work always is. Is this dark? I would say it is definitely true of most and then it becomes realistic. Thank you so much for entering my contest. I was waiting for an entry from you. I now have it and I know you spent time thinking about it. I really do like the lament at the end and would love to give this to so many to read. Well done on this piece. -
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thanks, sis :)
i'm not sure if it really is dark, but it is certainly not happy... yes, i guess it is just realistic. this is not at all what i was expecting to enter, but nothing flowed whenever i thought about what to write for it... until last night, when the majority of it came to me spontaneously (i hadn't even been thinking about your contest at all at the time, just, as you said, reflecting). but, i guess that's typical for me: my muse appears when she wants to, but never on demand.
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