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Awakened One

Posted Mar 25, 2010 · 42 lines · 10 critiques

My illusion

melts away like wax

revealing a deep inner core –

a dark reality to which

I must awaken

Too long

and obliviously too

have I suckled the nipples of illusion

Once I have fortified myself I

will replace my vulnerability

with Impregnability

I shall be rooted in the knowledge:

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no matter which crack or cranny

the truth may creep in from

or whatever that truth may be

I shall be in a state of readiness

of the awakened one, who

after having plumbed

the length, the breath and the depth

of consciousness

disturbed wisdom

from its dogmatic slumber

Then,

I shall neither be beguiled

by the lure of happiness

nor shattered

by the onslaught of sorrow

I shall neither be elevated

on a wave of recognition nor

obliterated

by the shadow of oblivion

I shall neither curse

my ill fate nor

praise my luck

I shall neither live

in the life of a shadow

nor die in the shadow of life

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on Awakened One from @panaella
"Lovely poem...one or two tweeks...but i'm not even going there... So good to see your style or writing on here again. I remember you from a year or two ago...and you were very encouraging when I started. Ells x"
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on Awakened One from @Candlewitch
"My favorite lines: Then, I shall neither be beguiled by the lure of happiness nor shattered by the onslaught of sorrow I find this so true. Now that I have quit the quest of finding happiness, I find happiness has found…"
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on Awakened One from @Seren
"Sigh ... and brought poetry as well as yourself ... a thousand sighs till tomorrow is this poem love JayCee (((huggles))) I have missed you ~!"
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