Poetry #220

ZERO WEIGHT GRAVITY

Exactly,
Normally,
Clock alarm
Rings briefly
To jar oneself
To shake off influences
Any ideas.
Would not change lives
With anyone else,
Whoever, whatever
Appearances may present
Themselves.

To center and occupy
The form
To work through it
To view through it,
Move it, live it,
Fully not taking on
External shadows
Measuring sticks,
Judgements
What is or is not
Anything;
Success or failure,
Ego or selfless,
Good or evil,
Right, wrong,
Duality itself!

Zero,
No matter
The appearances,
It does add up to zero
And soon oblivion
Buries them!
The journey itself
The life lived
In the moment is magic,
The happening.
Whose criteria does
One listen to
Rules,
There are no rules!

Zero weight - gravity
Light - open bright!
Simple - not bringing in duality
When thine eye is single
Programmed affirmations
Detachment
Using what is available
Not being entrapped
By it.


Poetry #221

UNTIL DAYLIGHT

Nightmare intercity
Wasteland
Train subway above
Ground area about
Block away
Realized
Walked street
From each other
To join ahead toward
Music store downstairs
People come out
Ground
Cardboard box tops
Yelling
Keep music down
To join in
Wrong place,
Then cross street elevated
Sidewalk
Others appeared who
Had gun aimed
Direction above.
Then bullets
Hit wall next
Shooting moved under
Further
Another shot,
Huddled close to wall
Out of range
How to get
Out of there
They might cross street
And be trapped.
They could not but wait
Until daylight
Police sirens come
Near exit
This morning.

©2002 - JV Harvey