Don’t be stuck in the muck in the dark
A luckless schmuck dumbstruck in the murk
Framing black clouds without seeing blue skies
Inflaming attack crowds instead of freeing truth from all lies
When watching life unfold as theater in the round
Without hankering to be the star that wears the heavy crown
Who clings, to hold onto identity’s attachments
Who sins, for gold with enemy combatants
Rather, can we uncover, ordinary wonder?
Within mind’s flights of fancy?
Avoiding foolish blunders
Letting mind’s eye be quite uncanny
Swirling fugues like hummingbird’s wings
Creating symphonies of song
An unfurling that includes many worlds that sing
Where innovating epiphanies effortlessly dawn
So close we don’t see it
So familiar we don’t trust it
So open, we can’t hold it
So near, we can’t find it
So spontaneous we miss it
So effortless we neglect it
So inseparable we discount it
So impermanent we avoid it
So inviting we forget it
So incontrovertible we obscure it
So limitless we dismiss it
So ordinary we snub it
So sublime we override it
So profound we overlook it
So present we defy it
So loving we deny it
So alive we slight it
So transcendent we hide it
So joyful we avoid it
So silent we disturb it
So restful we avert it
So whole we can’t subvert it
So intricate we can’t control it
So multifaceted we can’t command it
So dimensional we can’t conceive it
So incomprehensible there’s no believing it
Closer than a pug nose on an oblong face
More insistent than a stubbed toe in a long race
More dire than a bonfire in a haybarn
More inspired than a men’s choir in a gay bar
More spacious than the cosmos of creation
More gracious than the source of imagination
Clearer than a downbeat
Stronger than concrete
Nearer than a heartbeat
Higher than arched feet
Brighter than a Starfleet
More flavors than collusion of nations
More layers than evolution of relations
Just stop, look, listen, and question
In the quiet stillness of patient awareness
In available emptiness of unobstructed immanence
If without a watcher we subversively watch
The dense speeding comets of discursive thought
They slow down and burn up without reentry in time
In the luminous numinous belfry of mind
What is mind without a thinker?
A bottle without a drinker?
A ventilated vessel with no cargo
An emancipated vassal on multi-levels
Let mind-stream clear of all recalcitrant patterns
Quit live-streaming fear from all intoxicant taverns
Loosen slacken uncinch and unfasten
Solutions will happen when we begin with compassion
– Colin Farish
