A moment ago
An early self wrapped in some
Ancient thought
Spoke the necessity to let go
The narrow,illusory self image
And the unnecessary negative
Baggage meddling with my
Perceptions and judgements.

This is, i am sure, not a new
Profound thought that dropped in on me
From some divine essence supposedly
Flowing around in there
On an idex file marked-'divine thoughts
For today.'This was, in fact,
An intimate exploration of the deep
Memory vault that holds all the
Faults of all the 'I's masquerading as
Me and probably read
The sayings of Krishnamurti/Buddha or
Some other sage searching enlightenment
Whilst in another skin!

Who knows? But something is not
Acting in a clear,effective sense, the problems
In there stretch for years back. I blame
Some primitive ancestral gene that obviously
Tended a herd of swine on the Salisbury Plains
Under the shelter of Stonehenge!

What else can I say about this wild
Suffocating feeling always pulling me toward
All manner of crippling sensations
And unsavoury temptations. Its those
Inherited genes that are responsible
For all the day to day shit that flows our way.

Whatever you say, at the end of the day
Silence is lonely and never says one word
Of encouragement,but breathes vast shadows
Of a frightening future that is quickly gone
Before the inner-eye can scan whats true or not.

And way off in a distant mist
A cold.half-starved child in deep snow
Struggles toward an old man who has
Nothing to say,nothing to tell .....
The sad thing in the bleak landscape
Is this child that casts my manhood in
A flood of remembrance

And between us and the scent of the snow
There's this long-distant recognition
O having known each other.....

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