EGO[28]

Ego
Eccentricity of man
Where
Oh where do you lead him
When once he is opened
To the fact
That he is just a tool
For karma and God
Yes, by man against man
The
Last vestige
Of animal life
When
‘I’ was the center
Of all
To carry
A primitive man
Upward to the spheres
To the higher echelon
Of the fated
Human being
Fated
To join the angels
Or doomed to
Extinction
Erased from memory
Ego
You are doomed to die
As die you must
If man is to survive
Keep
Good teaching
Alive.

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DRIFTWOOD[29]
[in memory of Jim, and others I have known]


Where did the boy go
In that drunkard over there
The one who looks so lost
So forelorn
What demons
Plague
Control
This lost soul
Where
Are his protectors
Why do I see him
A piece of driftwood
On the beach
In the shallows
Karma
Be done with this soul
Let him regain
The path
Let his conscience
Intuition
Get back in sync
To finish
What he must have started
So long ago.

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VISION OF A CHILD[30]


Oh, if only adults had
The vision
Of a child
Intuition
Unblemished
By
The scars of time
The beautiful child
Conscience of innocence
Ever clean
With right and wrong
So
Crystal clear
Like
Day and night
No shades of gray
To confuse the way
The sweetness of life
Full
To overflowing
Able
To see
Through an adult’s
Shams
The grace
To go along.

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