of I, me that mystic

[keithalanhamilton]

to be a mystic
do I gotta be religious
believe in a maker
follow some prophet
or have a teacher ~
do I have to
pray, bow or ask
for forgiveness ~
what about
enlightenment
do I look for it
upon a scared scroll
etched on some
olden, stone tablet
or maybe through
the ritual of sacrifice
while fasting
sitting alone, with self
quietly in stillness

not for me

but my mysticism
is still spiritual
even if I’m agnostic
an individualist
and not a follower
experiencing fully
a cooperative unity
those feelings
of kinship
being a part of
the pack mentality
within the conscience
of human
social movement ~
as a mystic
I suffer no delusions
as if living in a void
isolated from
that activity
the effect
called collectivity ~
despite the critic
the judge, the elite
the ultimate authority
I’m the everyday
the commonly ordinary
but functional
work productive
politically active
proactively positive
family oriented
kind of person
the next-door neighbor
lending a helping hand
minding my manners
and my business
just trying to stay
out of trouble

and yet I’m me

that guy, that someone
ever since my birth
instantly plugged in
to the vibe, the energies
when moving about
within the environs
the physical
that manifestation
known as Nature ~
during my living
my goings on
here then there
interacting with
the living
and the non-living
intuitively, emotively
and psychically
within that
ebb and flow,
my process of life
with its embodied mind
I’ve learned intelligently
and progressively
about an emergent
felt sense
this innate essence
my spirituality ~
wherein and always
every molecule
of my being
no matter what form
or spirit it takes
within the atomic
subatomic
the manifest or not
as entwined within
the enfolds and unfolds
of the holomovement
I as one, the individual
am a self and a mystic
as well as
I, me am one, as in
interconnected
interrelated and
interdependent
with all else
I’m but one aspect
comprising, making up
a whole system
so known as Nature

and that’s my way

to be a mystic
my way is
the intelligently
progressive process
of an embodied,
embedded
and heightened
spiritual, felt sense
as to my
lived experience
with all of Nature
as a whole system
therefore and
so known as
the physical reality
of a cognitive
interactive
human reflective
conscious mind
of I, me that mystic