Authentic Self

by darkestlight

Posted to Poetry and Politics on 2003-12-20 04:36:00

The passionate life always rushes ahead
Mixed with care anxiety and dread
Existential spikes of pleasure and pain
Missed possibilities crushing the brain
Psychic attention a glued existence
To this world of apprehensive persistence

That which binds us to the cycle is care
The time of waiting for the pain, which is near
Lusting forward for uncertain pleasures
Fearing the loss of counterfeit treasures
The pain of this state causes anxious choices
At the bidding of unauthentic voices

The primary need is to know oneself
Finding the right mode of spiritual health
Care of the world and care of the spirit
Choosing rightly our future will bear it
Improper directives lead to despair
Loss of pleasure and existence in fear

Anxiety’s glue is the grasp of this earth
An inadequate,dry monotony of dearth
The ultimate fear one has is of death
Locked into this world because of our flesh
Launch out of self beyond the world of sight
Into a realm of the darkest mystic light

The world can destroy because of our body
But only that part which is dense and shoddy
That which would destroy him he then disposes
This man of spirit grasps the thorn of roses
Free from control of the passionate state
Through purification virtue will liberate
His authentic nature forever to demonstrate.

Christopher Cole



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