Poem - Memory

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Memory

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From the past they come unbidden,

memories of fear and loss.

Desire not escape in Self,

for Self loves Self

and Self grieves for Self.

There is no pity.

 

In agony the cries of mankind;

come unbidden.

Cries for healing that go unheard.

Cries of starving that go unfed.

Cries of tortured who know no relief.

Seek not relief, for there is no relief

unless relief is given by Self.

 

Life is suffering, and suffering is kind.

From suffering all healing comes.

The wheel turns; time moves.

There is no escape.

Why escape?

 

Emptiness of mind is no peace.

Joy of heart is no relief.

Impersonal God is no salvation.

 

In Self lies agony as well as ecstasy.

In denial of agony lies suffering.

Suffering is joy. Jesus suffered.

 

Coins are flipped; heads or tails?

Both sides read the same.

Heads read joy; Tails read agony.

All creatures have heads and tails.

 

To feel agony is release,

in suffering is liberation found.

To let tears flow is to let grace flow.

 

Deny misery? Deny God.

Deny nothing.

In denial lies death.

Let the tears flow.

Tears of joy,

Tears of anguish.

The wheel turns again,

and the water of life

flows from the eyes

irrigating the soul.

 

Without crying there is no laughing.

Without laughing there is no feeling.

Without feeling there is no Soul.

Soul withers and dies in absence of feeling.

There is no feeling without all feeling.

 

Seriousness is disease.

Absence of seriousness is disease.

Life is joy and pain. No pain, no joy.

 

Love illusion. Hate reality;

Or reverse.

It is the same.

 

I am memory

and I am now

and I am dream.

 

Deny one, deny all.

Deny nothing.

 

Let all flow.

Let all come together.

Many becomes One.

One becomes coin.

Coin becomes heads and tails.

Heads and tails become animal.

animal evolves to Self.

 

Memory is not of mind.

Memory is of Soul.

The Prophets lie.

Remember.

Forget Me not.

 

.... Tim Gerchmez, Rev. 2

 

 

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Dear Tim,

 

 

Thankyou for touching some of our hearts.

 

 

love

 

 

Sunil Sudhakar

 

 

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[ramakrishna] Poem - " Memory

Author: Ramakrishna (Tim Gerchmez <fewtch) at

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17/06/99 03:02

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tim Gerchmez <fewtch

 

 

Memory

------

 

From the past they come unbidden,

memories of fear and loss.

Desire not escape in Self,

for Self loves Self

and Self grieves for Self.

There is no pity.

 

In agony the cries of mankind;

come unbidden.

Cries for healing that go unheard.

Cries of starving that go unfed.

Cries of tortured who know no relief.

Seek not relief, for there is no relief

unless relief is given by Self.

 

Life is suffering, and suffering is kind.

From suffering all healing comes.

The wheel turns; time moves.

There is no escape.

Why escape?

 

Emptiness of mind is no peace.

Joy of heart is no relief.

Impersonal God is no salvation.

 

In Self lies agony as well as ecstasy.

In denial of agony lies suffering.

Suffering is joy. Jesus suffered.

 

Coins are flipped; heads or tails?

Both sides read the same.

Heads read joy; Tails read agony.

All creatures have heads and tails.

 

To feel agony is release,

in suffering is liberation found.

To let tears flow is to let grace flow.

 

Deny misery? Deny God.

Deny nothing.

In denial lies death.

Let the tears flow.

Tears of joy,

Tears of anguish.

The wheel turns again,

and the water of life

flows from the eyes

irrigating the soul.

 

Without crying there is no laughing.

Without laughing there is no feeling.

Without feeling there is no Soul.

Soul withers and dies in absence of feeling.

There is no feeling without all feeling.

 

Seriousness is disease.

Absence of seriousness is disease.

Life is joy and pain. No pain, no joy.

 

Love illusion. Hate reality;

Or reverse.

It is the same.

 

I am memory

and I am now

and I am dream.

 

Deny one, deny all.

Deny nothing.

 

Let all flow.

Let all come together.

Many becomes One.

One becomes coin.

Coin becomes heads and tails.

Heads and tails become animal.

animal evolves to Self.

 

Memory is not of mind.

Memory is of Soul.

The Prophets lie.

Remember.

Forget Me not.

 

... Tim Gerchmez, Rev. 2

 

 

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