purifying spirit
Silent illumination
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Words like hungry ghosts in my heart
These fingers on the page like sweet nectar,
Quelling hunger, dispelling fear.
Only silence is the supreme speech—
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These words are my silence.
Only illumination, the universal response—
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Resounding speech is my self.
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What else can I offer you, .
But that which I am receiving?
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These words, they flow through me
Swarming outwards like bees from a hive
Carrying vow from the source, to seek
The sweetness that pervades the blossoming spring
To enfold themselves entirely in that
And then return,
To transmute their newfound sheath of gold
Into offerings.
Do they know to whom they offer their nectar, and why?
Do I know to whom I offer myself,
For whom I write, for what, and why?
I don’t know,
And I’m not sure it matters anymore.
Enfolded in the lotus of eternal spring
Springing forth as the sweet nectar
Of silent illumination—
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And when I rise, .
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. you .
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As and I’ll offer it to you
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. me .
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. . . . As who we are, . . . .