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themute
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since 2006-05-08
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0 posted 2006-07-18 03:50 PM


Life, are you serious? The fact I don’t cry or have a mental breakdown wile having this epiphany is incredible to me. Now, on to the poem.

I am waking from my dreams
I think I’d seen myself, but I’d forgotten ‘for I woke
While in the bathroom for a shower
An angel speaks to me I’ll tell you what he told me with my own words
The smallest particles to molecules to membranes to tissue to all
Because of such small parts
And a small universe of matter acting all the time
Making consciousness, intelligence, vision
How does my consciousness get there?
I know when to use just shampoo and not conditioner
My hair is fine I used it yesterday
Incredible
I am in aw of my own existence
Of my own thinking and my own breathing
Of the smallest parts of me that make my mind
The fact that I can make decisions
That I understand I have an end and fear it but don’t let it own me  
I am in aw of the consciousness I take for granted
Of my sight I take for granted
How I see and how its power affects me
My ears that hear ‘words’, a funny concept in its self
I am in aw of my touch
So complex our bodies are and so powerfully real
I am because I feel I am, because I am
My heart that beats a rhythm until the day I die
My brain made so complexly it makes me alive
All of my senses that give me a world
I am in aw of them and in aw of consciousness
How it is made and how I know I am
How I remember thoughts and dreams
How I feel thoughts and think about my senses
How I can love and be loved
How I can act without thought, think without knowing it
How I know the world keeps spinning even without me here  
I am in aw of my being
And why shouldn’t I be in aw of what’s taken for granted
The beauty of the whole world we see is taken for granted
Funny that the very ability to see is taken for granted too
The ability to understand and be understood
To feel the skin of a love
Or have a conversation with your mother while she’s still alive
Or the ability to take in the air that is perfection into your lungs
We are all taken sometimes for granted
And with this realization, I am in aw  


I am the two-toed wanderer

[This message has been edited by Greeneyes (07-18-2006 05:26 PM).]

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divine chaos
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since 2006-07-09
Posts 617
dancing 'neath the moon
1 posted 2006-07-18 08:04 PM


very insightful and thought provoking write

~*Sheli*~

By words the mind is winged
~Aristophanes~

TinaTrivett
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since 2006-07-15
Posts 569

2 posted 2006-07-18 08:08 PM


"That I understand I have an end and fear it but don’t let it own me "

And that my friend is the key. I really enjoy all of your work. You are truly talented.

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