Decide
I have been told
To select my thoughts
As I select my shoes
To decide and choose
The words I have to use
Thoughts that come to mind
Be the master and in control
Memory will no longer be memory
I will choose it to be part of me
Should I leave or should I keep
I will have no duality
Choosing a path to the mind
Will no longer hold me back
One With All
This piece of planet that we occupy, body is named
Requirement is to accumulate, consume and expand
Needing to feel, experience and attending to grow
Existence belongs and is reference to body we know
Emotions we feel are housed in memory and mind
Intrinsic part we play, ultimately person we are not
The body would not last long, it is a fantasy of mind
Universe we live in, interchangeable planet we are
Miracle we are, to be aware of little quiet things
A degree of alertness, look or listen to present still
Though impact of each very different from the other
Source of growth is one and remains unknown
Road to Life
The road to life has been paved
Ancestors, poets, groundkeepers
We paved, prepared, follow it along
Our blood, our tears
Bones we left behind
Experience life, do not hang on
Life exists, situations can’t carry on
If you walk the path
With believes in your mind
You are paving a road
That will never last long
Confabulate
Some time ago when I believed
That I am my mind and not me
Was lost in thought, who I liked to be
I wrote, mapped the life ahead of me
Opposed to love, was game of mind
Forgot what was real and unreal to me
Failure, disappointments came to be
Heartbreak was crafted only by me
Confabulates is it my mind or me
Yesterday and today
I lit a fire to the bridge that connected me to yesterday
What lived yesterday is gone and has an end today
Paradise I lost, only imagined in memories of yesterday
All that I have learned, memory can't repeat it today
The garment of obligation that I had wore yesterday
It is the mark of my humility that I wear it today
My suffering is for what could have been yesterday
In sixty years of struggle, I see “in now” only today
When my body is no longer as young as yesterday
My life is on the water, yet I breathe the air today
Quest for freedom, I suffered unnecessary yesterday
Until I realized it was necessary to carry me to today
invitation of possibility to find greater self in yesterday
Willingness to look deep within by finding me today
Quiet Music
Tranquility of life is sleeping with open sky
It is when the music plays and tree sways
When the garden snake tangos gracefully with earth
Rejoice knowing the hidden jewel inside your heart
The greatest teacher penetrates inside out
And the lessons we learn are in the trembling
Wrinkling faces of the mirrors passing by
Listen to the music from the world we live in
You may even hear mountain sing, standing tall
United we are, by music, laughter and joy of being
Give thanks to beloved, and sun for the warmth of ray
Where the willow tree sings silently all day
Astonishment is in silence that leaves blind in ecstasy
For they see what does not exist for you and me
Sea of Sorrow
It would be wiser to know the sorrow
I draw from my pain, lessons follow
Lonely in joy as in pain and sorrow
This mind of mine
Weapon, stone, poison I know
Somewhere deep down very quietly
Ripple has begone and it is roaring at me
My unpredictable mind will feed me to earth
I need to get a good grip on my mind or me
Where I am headed has to be the sea
Love and ego
Feeling remorse, I asked to be thrown
All the way to the beginning unknown
Self-reproach, let this be the end of me
The body I live in can not be all of me
Memory of my love, though very short
But life of my ego is immensely purport
I died today metaphorically, and
Found out it was not the end of me
Was it the love I kept so selfishly
Or latching on to ego and memory?
It was He that welcomed, with no word
Lips revealed forgiveness to go forward
In His arms cradle of love I find
Remembering with love we are bind
Fragrance of Life
Everlasting life
Is not in my body I know
Love the body I have
It is only a borrow
If my life is full of love
And not of sorrow
I have lived with the flowers
And I know
Love is the fragrance
That will always follow
Memories
Eternal flame of your heart
In to your life it crept
Burned through memories
And accumulated things
You are always in your heart
And are never apart
If you follow the emotion
And trace it underside
Field of energy
That come up with your thought
Will lead you to the source
Of who is inside
Living through memory
You’ll miss the life once had
You will be left behind
Only a life of dream to go back
Immortality
I saw a glimpse of immortality
Mothers, Fathers who lived before
Sons, daughters that will live after
I saw glimpse of immortality
The glue that combines us all
Collectively we are humanity