Seeker

if you wish to know the truth of this world,

you must come to know yourself.

For there is no seeing without the seer,

no knowing without the knower,

and even the purest lens cannot remedy

the vision of a distorted observer.

Take your unhappiness and ponder, whereby does it come?

"Is it really mine if I never accepted it to be?"

Why feel so much struggle, distress, and frustration

for something that is not of your own creation?

Take your happiness and ponder, whereby does it come?

"Is it really mine if it cannot stay with me?"

Why feel so much pride, attachment, and greed

to achieve an emotion that always recedes?

See the animal you inhabit, consider its shape

its organized tissues in form incarnate.

Are you its desires, its hungers, its needs?

Do you wish to be ruled by this living machine?

Look in deeper and ponder, what steers its actions?

"Am I just a wondrous Rube Goldberg contraption?"

Is the choice I experience a constant illusion,

and if so, what's the goal of such needless collusion?

Sink deeper and wonder, what is this existence?

"Does the flow of pure Being need my active assistance?"

What matter if my hopes and my path diverge,

if all possible roads eventually merge?

Be still then, dear seeker, and merely allow.

What you feel and see is the Truth of the Now.

A gift of experience for you to observe

what occurs when the world tests your strength and your nerve.

A chance to take on the hero's stride

and save yourself from a dreary ride.

Act yet allow, therein lies the key

that opens the door to a life full and free.