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Open Poetry #29

Following The Fallen

n2dmystic
Member

since 2003-09-27

Posts 253
beyond the doors of perception

0 posted 2003-10-04 10:53 AM

Did you ever read M. Scott Peck's "The People Of the Lie"? They are all in church Sunday morning, but you'd never know it when they close the doors to their homes.

Balanced on the point of reality
does this tortured soul stand so close to the light
that he cannot see?
Illumination only mesmerizes, hypnotizes, paralyzes
Like the proverbial deer at the moment of cessation...
Information is categorized, compartmentalized, memorized, analyzed
Being aware of the omniscience of the Light
yet failing to truly live in the Presence
accepting a nodding acquaintance with the Power
relying instead on static belief systems
dogmas, precepts, and societal norms
Being lulled into dull-witted somnambulence by electronic hypnosis,
non-edifying behavior and speech
Filling that hole in the soul with temporal surcease
which brings no peace, and gives no release

Peace, Joe
in the big MT
seeking the serendipitous magical mysteries of life's ubiquitous twisteries

Miah
Senior Member

since 2002-08-26

Posts 1062
Pennsylvania

1 posted 2003-10-04 11:32 AM

"Filling that hole in the soul with temporal surcease
which brings no peace, and gives no release"

I loved the way this read. Rolls off the tongue.

Always drink upstream from the herd.
-- Will Rogers

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2003-10-04 12:22 PM

sigh...yeah

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