Verdant Grass 9

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9. Something About NOTHING: A Mystery Poem

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A hylic person fills his life

With a bag full of nothing.

A holy person fills his life

With a bag full of NOTHING.

 

If a person is possessed of nothing

And someone takes his nothing away from him,

Suddenly he finds in his Treasure House

A Something that is born of NOTHING.

 

The incredibility of NOTHING in ones life

Is that it always produces Something.

But alas! Folks take this Something

And with it oft produce nothing.

 

So a war is declared in the human mind

Between NOTHING and nothing.

NOTHING always wins due to the fact

That nothing has nothing to fight with!

 

No one in his right mind, when it passes

That he is stripped of the nothing he has,

Shouts in the street that he has been robbed.

NOTHING does not leave one empty-handed!

 

The Abundance of the Cosmos is born

Of the NOTHING from which all comes.

That NOTHING is beyond any concept of God;

Beyond anything one might compare it with.

 

When it reacts upon our empty lives

It fills us with a Knowing beyond knowing,

And a Substance beyond substance.

Nothing cannot comprehend its Source.

 

One cannot comprehend the fullness of NOTHING,

For it defeats all our logical intellectualism.

The Kingdom of God is like this and this;

NOTHING is like nothing one has ever seen.

 

This poet doesn’t know what he is saying.

He just blabs and blabs and blabs;

But the nothing words he has written down

Testify of Something greater than he now understands.

 

And that Something is NOTHING;

Beyond any concept of anything;

Yet it compasses everything

And remains its NOTHING self!

 

NOTHING is free to those who seek.

Nothing has a price upon an empty heart.

When one is empty of all his idiot thoughts

There will be found NOTHING left!

 

So radical an idea I have proposed

According to the status quo of nothing!

Think NOTHING of it! Let it flow,

And you will learn NOTHING fast!

 

NOTHING is made abundantly clear

To anyone who has opened his ears

And heard the sound of one hand clapping.

What a deafening den to have to endure!

 

It is NOTHING to possess all things

And to lay them at the feet of the Ineffable;

For NOTHING is Ineffable in any way,

And the Ineffable is NOTHING to anyone.

 

NOTHING is in anything that is, and in the end,

All things will come back to NOTHING.

NOTHING is alive, but without it

All things would be dead.

 

When NOTHING usurps the throne of nothing,

Everything is resurrected unto Life.

When NOTHING rules the land,

Nothing is impossible to anyone!

 

Pity the poor soul who hasn’t got NOTHING.

Blessed is the soul to whom NOTHING is certian.

See? I have made a whole poem out of NOTHING,

And I hope and pray NOTHING is done!

 

For if NOTHING is done, it stands to reason

That everything will fulfill its purpose;

For he who has embraced NOTHING

Has become One with everything!

 

Namaste,

 

~ Charles

 

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