Die before Death and Live Now

 

Before us lies this world glistening with the intoxication of desire

Ever moving, ever changing, a continuous weave of changing cycles.

It beckons us: ‘come, come, join the dance’,,

Come spin and twirl until you are dizzy like

An amusement park ride;

Experience after experience in endless procession.

 

Trinkets and toys allure and fascinate,

until fascination dies from lack of a sense of reality.

In this dying I become alive, as I watch the world fade;

Its shimmer growing dull,

The laughter of its children joyful no more,

The kiss of its pleasure sweet and sensual no longer.

 

Finally, I turn within, for where else can I go.

What is this sense I feel,

Like the pull of a deep cosmic current moving within the heart.

A blinding light is its greeting, 

Dissolving and awakening at the same time !

The soul, the soul - Dawn comes, Spring comes,

Rebirth comes.

 

Darkness and confusion dissolve

In golden light emanating from within.

A spell is broken, a tightly spun fabric unraveled, a riddle undone.

I see the great dancer for all that she is – veiled temptress, lover, teacher.

I return to the land of the living, joyful,

Changed, yet unchanged.