Poetry

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A New Morning

My heart remains the relative degree of my body
The remnant of a cause once mine
The mind of a one-time consideration thought to be no more
The sun sets and chaos reigns within me once again

As if a momentary reprise blurred into constancy
I feel compassion release me
All that is left of me I have forgotten
All that remains is the residual of what has never been

Spirit of sinister augmentation leave me be
The image in this cracked mirror I no more see clearly
How is it then that I know the darkness so well?
What is it in me that avails your transgress?

Without a name I call out but my voice remains still
Only the echo of a distant cry returns to me
Endlessly showering me in the drops of the pain I exude
This torrid rain of my eyes mocks my countenance
I have ceased to exist

Time to leave now
For reason can no longer explain that which lacks to define me
I saunter further from becoming
Not being able to suffer my own awareness
Not being has become my conscience

Identity is now a myth
I do not recognize my own face
No one has ever known this man
No one will ever remember my name

Yet suddenly
Just before I intimate the door of sable permanence
As surely as I thought I knew
Knowing is called to doubt
As certain as i knew i was gone
"Here" stands fully before me

I am sure that I know my own name
As certain as I am that I hear it now
Yet this voice is the designation of another
I now discern what my ears cannot
Acknowledging it without words

“Here I am”

I Utter without restrain

“I am here”

I once again exclaim

As clear as the day and as unavoidable as the night
Becoming is now my reality
Does my mind betray me?
Certainly my ears have failed me

“I cannot wait here, I must go”

I blurt without control

“But it is I that have been waiting for you. Waiting for
so long.”
“And it is only I that can tell you where to go”

Should it matter that my eyes perceive nothing?
It must be the darkness that grips me once again
This is not the doing of a friend

“No child, the dark is not too great. You just have yet
to meet the light. That is why I Am here”

So my mind must deceive me further, now the river speaks so clear
Water has no expression beyond its wave
I Have experienced what most will never hear
I Should be trembling, yet I know no fear.

“That is because I Am here so you may know love, and perfect
love drives out all fear”

Only my own thoughts could answer a question I have yet to state Whose trickery do i now contemplate

“Ah, but I know you deeper than the spoken word, even before
your parents mate”

How is it that I feel I know you, for I am not familiar
with your voice?

“Yes, I know son. I have been yearning to see you,
desperately calling you, but you were not ready to answer”

How can it be that you know me?

“There can be no one who knows you as I do. You have
searched for yourself for so long, and I Am here to give
you your name..to answer your questions”

Funny,I don’t remember asking any questions

“That is what makes them mine alone to answer”

Everything i know of this world tells me this should be only me talking to myself alone
How is it then that this is more true to me than anything I have yet known?

“That is because I Am the Way and the Truth”
“What has been foreign to you until now will be told to you
in Today”
“The Son has risen and now you must feast your eyes upon
the Word that will satisfy your hunger and renew your mind,
and in that which will finally quench your thirst”

Odd. That made sense to me, yet I know not of what you speak

“I will give you today the water of discernment so that
you may know all things concerning me, the Living Word.”
“How Today I wash you clean, and how it is that the Son has
now risen in your heart, bringing the beginning of a new
morning where the day will never end”

Just then, the most gentle of breezes caught me splendidly off-guard, yet it did not simply pass with a soft stir on my skin as all others have. It did not pass at all, remaining upon me as His voice did within me; as I now knew He would as well.
From underneath, around, and all sides of me, as a mother reaching for her newborn, it stayed with me as it lifted my heart in the security of His forever arms. I knew then nothing would ever be the same.

May I ask you something my Lord?

“Please do”, He gently said as I heard my name, though it
did not seem to be in His voice

I have never known anything like this, so how is it that
I recognize this more intimately than those I have spent
my entire life appealing to?

“Today, I will tell you who you are. The one question
whose answer has eluded you”
“You have only appeared to yourself without knowing, for
your image was merely a shadow of the One who has made you”
“Today, I complete you”
“In life, through love, in all That I Am, do make you alive
to never die, by the rising of the Son, to be my son,
forever more”

From that day on, I have known life
And I have lived because of it
As surely as i remain alive forever more
No matter what else this world may reflect of me

For all i do
the good and the ba the gain and the loss
I now know what it is to be free
And for this, never again to reminisce

For what is now, there be no render of
Forever and for sure, I now know Love
And of it, I now know how you see
I love because He first Loved me

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