What poisons our mind
Tastes sweet for an instant
But that moment in time
Is soon fleeting in the distance
Desire, aversion, and arrogance
Acquiring worsening malevolence
Precedes heartbreak in prisons of mistake
Seeding headaches from the poisons we take
They act like glue to fortify our pride
Subdue our hearts, solidify our minds
They trench a moat of separateness
Around our lonely heart
Erecting a tower of self-centeredness
That cracks and breaks apart
These tragic payback toxins
Are black magic gateway drugs
Why overdose on karma?
And drown in this bad blood?
Spinning indefinitely in limitless misery
On a winding wheel of woe?
A binding ordeal that seems all too real
Will we let it steal our souls?
By opening in flowing motion
Not opposing in controlling revulsion
Awareness like wildfire devours this quagmire
Consuming sludge-thoughts
Exhuming grudge-clots
Torching our rotting splintered part
Then from the ashes we can reenter
Our undivided heart
May every in-breath be our rebirth
May every outbreath be our death
Death to all clinging that ends all suffering
The pendulum of opposites
Slowly swings to rest
It ceases to affect us
With all its stormy stress
With its pleasure and pain
Loss and gain
Praise and blame
Fame and shame
If we keep opening our heart
To the sameness of oneness
In infinite space free from any trace
Of longing and pining
Wronging and strip-mining
Off the fragmented grind of time
While ruthlessly guarding
With no dream of discarding
Our demented self-shrine
Befriend the uninvited
They have a gift to give to you
Distend and be clear-sighted
Clouds lift so love can break through
What’s left is lovingkindness
Compassionate goodness
Nothingness emptiness
Intense all-rightness
Inner light brightness
Without any witness
In an ocean of forgiveness
Insight into clearness
Sublime sacred ordinariness
Words sink into silence
A silent link alliance
With past future and present
All fountaining omnipresent
Heal all at once in this constant state of flux
Flowing music so profound it’s multidimensional
Mind-blowing soundless sound ecstatically incomprehensible!
– Colin Farish
