Seeker Magazine

AVANT SOUL

Rhapsodies in Words

to reawaken our fascination with the ever-original SOUL

Return to the Table of Contents



Fool Riddle


You Will Know

        and will start something
    this New Year which we can all understand:

                        FOOD.            It fills us
                                   now tell me, tell me,

            Why Then Are We So Empty?


Are you filled with rapture?  Are you receiving enough
        recognition
Are you getting enough attention?               
                             (Most of us are starved for a sense of appreciation.)

To be noticed...
By others, to recognize ourselves, to be acknowledged
                                     By society, in the work place, by our families --

                         Why even to be acknowledged by GREAT SPIRIT --

... We first have to be filled
...With a sense of purpose,
    A contribution, something to receive support for, things quite NOTABLE

                    And In Truth, QUITE KNOWING.

We have to be -
We hope to be -
We wish to be -
Filled with -
           
                       Distinguishable abilities, with recognizable energies...
                    ...For which we are valued, for which we are treasured,
                       For which we are known.

Hey, are you re-known, renown, renowned? Or Simply OWNED!


-- Knowledge is a sap, an inner nectar --

We're hired for what we do, and the irony is, we make a most indelible impact
                        By Ways In Which We Belong.

                                    don't get sappy, it's only nectar
                                    it's only meaning, sweetness,
                                    the Maple Syrup of Hours

                              What is your longing? Your belonging?
                    and ARE YOU FULL ?  C'mere, sweetheart,
                    R you CONTENT?
                                   
( R   U   Blue?  Ah, there's the RUB ! )

                   

So we hunger for food,

WE                Are starved to make ends meet, WE
are astonished
                       That we long to make a difference. Long and short of it is,     
                That no matter how chaotic & troubled this world,
                WE would like to think that we matter.  That we contribute.

            . . . Yet are we full?  Content?   Bring  on  the  sweetness!

We've been defined by abilities & ways in which we make our impact.
                             
We've made a pact. Ways we impact others. 

Ways through which we create an impact. Will you make a name for yourself?

Ways to impress (and also suppress) ourselves.  But first, feed me now!


                                It's a form of touching god.
                        Our pacts with others. Our contracts with ourselves.

                          Our IMPACT
in Creation, in this world

            ...and in that tiny world where we reside, in loneliness...

                                   
So Terribly Hungry!
        chewing   chewing   chewing   chewing   chewing   chewing   chewing   chewing   chewing   chewing



       ...To make...
That most lasting impression on others, begin to express what you're aching to say --
       
                       
don't  just  grind your teeth, buckwheat.



FIND
the nectar, that essence & sweetness of your rapture.  Find
                                                           Search for the love
                                                           To make you full.

A fool's journey to become fulfilled & hopefully awakened. 

                                                            Dreaming ?
So we find ourselves starved for food, longing for sex,

                    ...Yearning for delicious senses of contentment,
                    ...From knowing we've made a difference,
                       Knowing that we matter, believing that we're valued...

When the astonishing fulfillment, that most complete & all-containing understanding


                                   
Of  Being Full
                                ... and of BE - COMING attained.


        Arises from awareness of God (the awakened awareness of your expression)

                                       within  Creation.        No comparison,
                                                             that Creativity !

No comparison at all, TO DO THE WORK
                    And Become Awakened...

...And possibly, in the meantime,within fleeting stomachs,
    during longings on vacation in lands of I'M NOT THERE YET,


...Possibly, as GREAT SPIRIT whispers genuinely to you,

                You will know

                You will believe at last,

That you no longer need to stuff yourself in order to be fool.


                            Stuffing is no replacement for arrival




        to be full
            to be a sea    gull
            to be a see    fool

Fly now   in-2 awareness
    spread
and  stretch
. . .

                         If it was a question of genius arising from habits,
                         By now your stomach would be God.



Praise the Great Lord of Digestion and Understanding.





(Copyright 2004 by Darius Gottlieb No reproduction without express permission from the author)
From IT, an upcoming book to be published in 2005
      by  Laughing Rhinoceros Press

You're invited to visit Darius' website for more of his photographs and his music at Art Bliss

Letter to the Author at SoulGnosis@aol.com

Table of Contents