Tim Gerchmez poem and one more

[Guest guest]

I was moved by Tim Gerchmez's wonderful poem "I,I".

I had written a fairly similar one some years back

when I was searching for deeper meanings and experimenting

with self realization.

 

"A touch of the Ocean"

 

In the silence of the self

dive deep.

With persistence, one day

you may find

a firefly light.

Nurture the light

and lose your I-ness

and then you shall feel

the touch of the Ocean

within.

Then exploding

like a million fiery suns

let the tongues of God-fire

consume you

like a raging furnace

of violent bliss.

Let the burdens of

past lives be charred

to the ash of nothingness.

Then merge into

that Nothingness

of everything

and be one with it!

Let your soul songs

turn your sufferings

into a flower-path

to the divine garden

of light and love.

Then from such

timeless sky-heights

you shall come down

like the rain

to a parched earth.

For there are flowers to bloom,

wounds to heal,

and work to do.

 

Hari Kumar

March '97