EMBRACING FAILURE

When I beheld a sense of failure
From my ego self with all its rules and conditions
I felt bereft and alone
Life itself seemed to drain from my body
And an utter despair, an intense hopelessness
Came upon me
As though I was completely abandoned and forsaken
In an uncaring godless universe
From which there was no escape

When I beheld the same failure
From an openness of awakened heart and mind
My eyes cleared of the fog of conditioning
And I gazed upon the false construct
I saw the erroneous line we draw between things
I saw the play of duality and its relentless demands
I saw the tricksters mind that makes everything about division
And, for a true moment, I laughed with great tears in my eyes
As I saw that there is no failure except we make it so

But knowing it is false is not enough
We must still, at times, endure and embrace that feeling
For only the embracing of ghosts
Allows them to dissolve
As if by themselves.

- Image by Stefan Keller from Pixabay

• That’s it from me for the weekend. We are off on a few days vacation next week so probably no poetry. Be well and take care. We are in extraordinary times, and from what I see things are going to get very tense and intense in the coming few months. We will need every ounce of our spiritual and psychological depth and trust to surf the waves. But this is our calling now.

Have a great weekend x