Would You Forfeit?
by stacey Saturday, Jan 2 2016, 9:13pm
international / poetry / post

in vain u wish
to capture my love for urself,
u would be better attempting
to gather the sea with a thimble

i have dispensed with the particular
in favour of the universal and while
my love has increased immeasurably
it cannot be gathered from fields unfolding
to be gifted to any single entity or thing

i have hung my selfish desires on the wind
and i am free to love u wholly,
totally with all existence -
how could u be left unfulfilled?
let go of ownership, emotional or otherwise
the universe is free, share it with me
and together we would mount the skies
and move forever in the bliss of cosmic creation,
which is an expression of Love
nothing else -
for love’s sake it came into being

i cannot comply or submit to something perverse
only selfless love triumphs over all
cease ur frantic efforts to possess,
freedom is our gift from creation
no prisons exist except those imposed by culture
and what a tragic disease culture is today,
let it go!

meet me in forever and we would abide forever -
how could u substitute infinity for the disappointments
and pain of transience?

cut the jailers from ur mind, religion, mother, father
and cultural values, withdraw from chaos, insanity and perversion
and meet me in paradise
or suffer in ignorance, fear and selfishness
like the herd that endlessly bite like rats at each others' throats
forfeiting their chance of fulfillment