Poem: "I Have Seen Him!"

[L.B.]

"I Have Seen Him!"

He is alive - not dead at all,

not enshrined in gilded-marble hall,

not punishing my every fall,

not stony-silent at my call.

 

He is ALIVE - not myth or story,

not inapproachable in glory,

not preached in words contradictory,

not shown in "artwork" grim and gory.

He is beyond what mirrors show -

they but reflect; they cannot know.

He is not found above, below

or someplace anyone could go.

 

I HAVE SEEN HIM when I saw

a playful puppy's outstretched paw,

heard a raven's teasing caw,

seen LOVE as LIFE, and LIFE as LAW.

 

I have seen HIM in your eyes -

our gazes met, and I surmise

that under all our Ego lies

the Way, the Truth, the Life - the Prize.

 

I see HIM now - he is the sun,

the fields on which wild horses run,

the elements in everyone,

what once began and is not done,
 

and in each milligram and ton

of stuff that's within reach and gone

of things with mind, and things with none

of wonder, sadness, pain and fun.

 

HE is no personage, no "He" -

that language is convenient, see?

I have seen "HIM" - our destiny,

not "you" or "I", not "us" or "we"

 

but all that is, and was, and comes

the energy that sings and thrums,

moves everything from moons to thumbs -

 

I have seen "Him" - He is ONE.

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[MOHO]

Did you write that, L.B. ?

[L.B.]

1 hour ago, MOHO said:

Did you write that, L.B. ?

 

I did, indeed. I am a poet and songwriter of many years - just getting back into the discipline of trying to write something, anything of substance, each day.

 

I used to write hundreds of lines of poetry and lyric a day - if I heard a song I liked, I immediately went and tried to write one.

 

Even rap lyrics - whoever was my favorite artist at the time would inspire me to try and write either in their style or, more often, with the tempo and meter of the beats they used.

 

I gave up almost all writing of poetry or songs when I got religious because it wasn't "glorifying to the lord"... but the lord never gave me any songs or poems for church, either - not many, anyway, and certainly almost nothing of lyrical or musical substance. The things I wrote that mattered at all were honestly when I was trying to write whatever I felt like writing musically (not specifically praise/worship songs) and I just happened to compose "religious" lyrics.

 

Trying to find my muse again after many years... it's tough because I spent so long trying to be someone I'm not - I belittled my musical and literary work because it wasn't "Christian". I have to learn to trust my instincts again.

[Shinobi]

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