The message behind the words
is the voice of the heart.
~ Rumi
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Rumi
Friday, March 22nd, 20192019-05-07 – The Match
Wednesday, May 8th, 2019The Match
The early dusk sky was still ablaze
with the glowing embers of the dying day.
I saw you hunched over the burning funeral ghats,
inhaling the smoky perfume of charred flesh and bone
like a macabre dope fiend, then go drunkenly staggering
through the sewer-lined streets of the night-time town,
brazenly juggling flaming batons of birth and death
like some crazy carnival clown on a grisly spree.
Look, in the temples and shrine rooms your devotees
are offering gilded gifts at the makeshift altars of their
superstitious fantasies, but I can see you, Devi, and I
know that you’re only doing your job, so no praise
or blame will escape my lips, just get on with it:
this world is dry tinder, you wield the match.
Bob O’Hearn
2017-05-30 – Words cannot touch it
Friday, May 31st, 2019I like that sometimes I walk around
with an empty and aware mind.
I don’t comment on it to myself and break the silence – I just know it;
as if another color has come into my experience.
And I like what I’ve come to call Authenticity;
when I’m using words.
It’s like another color in my awareness.
As if everything coming to me is painting the back wall of
the empty room that I am and I am inseparably in it.
Words don’t begin to touch this.
gallagher
30May2017
Singapore
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