The Return to Joy

(I've just remembered who I am!)

Nick Rumbelow 1992

 

Here I stand,
the passing
of the
universe,
the result
of billions
of years
of physical
evolution
and Spiritual
endeavours.

Am I just
flotsam
on the Stream
of Inevitability?

I am an
unborn child
attached
to the Mother
Earth,
for each
of these molecules
which now
gather and flow
as the collective

'me',

were originally
moulded by
Her fires
and Her seas.

These atoms
through which I now see
are ancient,
once
they may have been
the very rocks
on which we
weave our paths,
and now my energy
gives thought,
voice and sight
to the rocks.

It is the Universe
which now writes
about itself,
it is the energy
of the Universe
which is alive,
not 'me'.

I am a centre
of cosmic activity,
a disturbance
in the quantum foam
where mind
meets matter.
I am a doorway
to multi-dimensions;
through me
the planet thinks
and deludes itself
with sleepy
ignorance
and illusions
of separatism.

But evolution
does not stop,
and like water to water,
the pools of thought
slowly reach out
and merge
with each other,

and an awakening
begins.


The way we shape
our individuality,
isolated
yet
unavoidably connected,
affects
the quality of
the Whole picture.

As I let the sand
spill through my fingers,
it is my own
fineness
that I sense,
and when I taste
the gift of fruits,
it is my own
sweetness
that is on my lips.

When I hear the
comfort
of the songbird,
I am listening
to myself,
and when the flowers
bless me
with their fragrance,
I am Nature
talking
to myself,

and I begin to understand
what I am saying.


"I am the Temple of Spirit,
where worship
is paradox.

I am Nature,
nothing
is outside
of Me
.

Who am I?

I am You"

.

As I
stand here,
I am the Universe
looking back
at itself,

Becoming

self-aware.



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