Forever
You are forever undefiled among the appearance of degradation,
you are forever wild in the house of cultured domestication.
you are forever whole in the great facade of separation,
you are forever life in the mist of catastrophic destruction.
be not fooled by forms, what sees hides with in them,
be not enslaved by norms, for the changeless dies within them,
be not bound to conceptual thought, for awareness is diluted in their contraction.
be not burdened by the weight of doing, for the restful is carrying all action.
Thy enemy is given for thy soul’s grace,
For eternal Self wares many masks upon her face.
A measurement of thought to wound thyn own eye,
chaining to the earth what lives in the naked sky.
A contest, an adversary, a delusion of mind,
a quest a mystery to obscure what you find.
a repulsion, a desire, a movement of thought.
accepting, and rejecting what emptiness sought.
perfection and discordance the betrayal of the fates,
that loves its own lies, and lies in what it hates.
correct not what you see, it is divinely perfected,
perfect not the flaw you imagine, it is divinely erected.
To fear the past is to create it again,
a bargain you made with darkness and sin.
projected out of the mind on to the screen of the unreal,
yet plainly we see what you try to conceal.
Forever this game, forever this trance
forever you die, you toil and you dance.
a lie in the mind so faithfully true,
as each perception is seen in its own special hue.
But to see as the Self, as the axis of the wheel
beyond time is eternity the holy and the real.
Desire will grasp only what it seeks to behold,
so it matters not if this truth is herein plainly told.
You are forever undefiled among the appearance of degradation,
you are forever wild in the house of cultured domestication.
you are forever whole in the great facade of separation,
you are forever life in the mist of catastrophic destruction.
be not fooled by forms, what sees hides with in them,
be not enslaved by norms, for the changeless dies within them,
be not bound to conceptual thought, for awareness is diluted in their contraction.
be not burdened by the weight of doing, for the restful is carrying all action.
~ Asa
