Nine Steps Beyond Belief
Moses!
Jesus!
Mohammad!
look! see what
you've wrought
upon our world
your words
captured
chained to books
unalterable
unattainable
these books
have become
mere tombs
to protect
those wisps
of cognizance
that passed
so freely
sometimes
misunderstood
misinterpreted
disbelieved
mistaken
confusion abounding
your frozen ideas
were not allowed
to develop
to grow
to gain their fullness
(their wholeness denied
captured in write
like butterflies
mounted upon
a collectors desk
to be viewed
reviewed
talked about
word by word
phrase by phrase
missing
(always missing)
the fact of thought
the river that runs
.......eternally
change is the constant
and never stopping
only a pause
an ease
at ease
(if you please)
the prophets
spoke thru hearts
always beating
beat....beat....beat
the message
...impulses
translations limited
language a barrier
(describe your orgasm!)
the mountain
stands high
surrendered
to its fate
but quakes
lessen strength
with the wind
the mind does go
flow....you'll know....
flow....you'll know....
bip! lights on!
we are so much
so much more than
those laboratory
definitions of
factual's actuals
squeezing out life
and putting it on
display to
pray to
worship
faith-fondle
with our timidity
prophets!
you weren't given
your wholeness
your wholly-ness
your bliss
in your words...
you have transcended
the mundane of scripture
and rose high
the experience
the light
the joke's on us
they're killing us
the joke's on us
they're killing us
_______
Moses!
Jesus!
Mohammad!
look! see what
you've wrought
upon our world
your words
captured
chained to books
unalterable
unattainable
these books
have become
mere tombs
to protect
those wisps
of cognizance
that passed
so freely
sometimes
misunderstood
misinterpreted
disbelieved
mistaken
confusion abounding
your frozen ideas
were not allowed
to develop
to grow
to gain their fullness
(their wholeness denied
captured in write
like butterflies
mounted upon
a collectors desk
to be viewed
reviewed
talked about
word by word
phrase by phrase
missing
(always missing)
the fact of thought
the river that runs
.......eternally
change is the constant
and never stopping
only a pause
an ease
at ease
(if you please)
the prophets
spoke thru hearts
always beating
beat....beat....beat
the message
...impulses
translations limited
language a barrier
(describe your orgasm!)
the mountain
stands high
surrendered
to its fate
but quakes
lessen strength
with the wind
the mind does go
flow....you'll know....
flow....you'll know....
bip! lights on!
we are so much
so much more than
those laboratory
definitions of
factual's actuals
squeezing out life
and putting it on
display to
pray to
worship
faith-fondle
with our timidity
prophets!
you weren't given
your wholeness
your wholly-ness
your bliss
in your words...
you have transcended
the mundane of scripture
and rose high
the experience
the light
the joke's on us
they're killing us
the joke's on us
they're killing us
_______
cecil
03 January 2010
[originally written in 2001]
Picture of the Week:
Downtown Scene
photo: cecil
photo: cecil
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