By Patrick Ngugi [Kiambu, Kenya]
Stillness surrounding
And transcending all
In loud sprawling silence
Consciousness…
That powerful stillness
Cool and refreshing
Like clear still water
That really runs deep
Experiencing… knowing
Feeling, seeing, tasting, hearing, smelling
Exhilarating agonizing ecstasy
Excruciating delight
Inside discovering outside
Self discovering self
The universe beyond the senses
Exhilaration of the elements
Reunion with babes, beings and bugs
Trekking on this… this … voyage
From self to Self, through
Schools of Hard Knocks
Learning the law of reciprocity
Giving equals getting and
Forgiving accompanies forgetting
Exploring self through dating
Seeing self through their eyes
Their pain – your pain
Their joy – your joy
Remembering the golden rule
Watching with a chuckle
The crawling, standing, stumbling and falling
Recalling – replaying – yesterday’s failures
And leaving the crawlers to stumble and fall
To learn their own true balance themselves
Sunset ushers in nostalgia
Mingled with golden memories
That flash past like smoke of yesterday
Shriveled body is surely slowed down
By aching bones and stiff joints
As the earth spins on unbothered
And the passengers still rush by
In their eternal rush, chasing mirages
And wasteful wayward winds
Experience smiles inside its Self
At the absurdity of it all
Cos things still stand still
And nothing really changes
Despite the rush to escape from self
Struggling to hide our nakedness
From the ever wakeful Self
The dusk arrives without notice
Announcing: Time to go home
To complete concrete consciousness
Cool and refreshing
And knowing the Self
Knowing that I AM
©PN210418
