Seeker Magazine

AVANT SOUL

Rhapsodies in Words

to reawaken our fascination with the ever-original SOUL

Green Shoots (Opened)

Imagine if you could cut yourself some slack
And not bear down on yourself
To be the person you are yet becoming

   Imagine if you could breath with the changes
   Instead of crying in frustration
   To the missing pieces or things

      Not in place
      Misplaced --

      Are you not in a state of grace
      Ask yourself to

Imagine if your spirit was free
And you were not tinged by sadness

   Imagine if the simple hinges of each day Opened

      To doing exactly what brought joy,
      Or being without the restraints of judgment

         Finding fault when those faults are just a place
            for the ground to open up

               Imperfect cracks from which spring
               Green shoots of flowers.

(I know the earth shakes. You tremble.
I know that when you remove the mask of composure
There is a raw pulsating sap,

And it isn't blood which bleeds from your heart,
   But nectar, not expressed,
   The most tender & fragile pieces of sweetness left unsaid.

   It is condensed light and understanding deep in the fissures.
   As I peer in your eyes, there is syrup, syrup, spinning filigrees,

      Filaments and threads of some intangible essence which washes
      Across the watercolors of eternity like a double cloak of sadness
      Which needs only to be turned inside-out. Pull out the sleeves

        of your understanding and find the joy)

(Copyright 2002 by Darius Gottlieb
No reproduction without express permission from the author)

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

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