shambhavi
7th March 2006, 12:48 AM
[tscii:9ed6247d05]Seekers beware of the mellow inferno
Like a moth attracted to a flame I am drawn
What forbidden love is this wherein the closer I am to you the more I shall burn?
Like an inferno that consumes all that is in its path you do the same
I draw nearer and can feel the heat burning my face obliterating my features,
As I turn to ashes slowly a part of me is radiant, glowing; while the rest of me is dying, gray and falling apart yet drawing my last breath I plunge into the golden flames
Having attained final release.
This is a warning to all those who seek you
Thou art not a fountain of bliss but a glorious conflagration that burns away all vestiges of limitation
The curse of being Infallible
Have you ever felt a longing that leaves you breathless?
Have you felt a craving that drains your core?
Have you felt the pain of separation slicing you like a saber?
Have you endured the misery of being surrounded by everyone yet being
alone?
Have you wandered like a lost traveler, stumbling, knowing only your
destination but not the way to it?
Have you experienced a self loathing so great, that eats away your soul
when you realize how worthless you are?
Have you ever experienced the travails of birth and of this fearful
existence that hands you pain and pleasure like blows, leaving you
confused?
O Mother when you who are beyond all embodiment have experienced
None of my suffering perhaps that is why you don’t hasten to engulf me
MISERY
I look around to find a friend all that I see are a thousand corpses
I yearn to hold a hand pulsating with warmth all that I see is my own decayed to the bone
I look upto the skies hoping to be overwhelmed by a blue so beautiful
The sky has darkened and threatens to erupt like a long dormant volcano
And then the rains lash out, I seek protection but refuge is nowhere in sight.
Despair, agony and fear vie for supremacy; to feel so alone
This I fear is my vision of universal misery
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Like a moth attracted to a flame I am drawn
What forbidden love is this wherein the closer I am to you the more I shall burn?
Like an inferno that consumes all that is in its path you do the same
I draw nearer and can feel the heat burning my face obliterating my features,
As I turn to ashes slowly a part of me is radiant, glowing; while the rest of me is dying, gray and falling apart yet drawing my last breath I plunge into the golden flames
Having attained final release.
This is a warning to all those who seek you
Thou art not a fountain of bliss but a glorious conflagration that burns away all vestiges of limitation
The curse of being Infallible
Have you ever felt a longing that leaves you breathless?
Have you felt a craving that drains your core?
Have you felt the pain of separation slicing you like a saber?
Have you endured the misery of being surrounded by everyone yet being
alone?
Have you wandered like a lost traveler, stumbling, knowing only your
destination but not the way to it?
Have you experienced a self loathing so great, that eats away your soul
when you realize how worthless you are?
Have you ever experienced the travails of birth and of this fearful
existence that hands you pain and pleasure like blows, leaving you
confused?
O Mother when you who are beyond all embodiment have experienced
None of my suffering perhaps that is why you don’t hasten to engulf me
MISERY
I look around to find a friend all that I see are a thousand corpses
I yearn to hold a hand pulsating with warmth all that I see is my own decayed to the bone
I look upto the skies hoping to be overwhelmed by a blue so beautiful
The sky has darkened and threatens to erupt like a long dormant volcano
And then the rains lash out, I seek protection but refuge is nowhere in sight.
Despair, agony and fear vie for supremacy; to feel so alone
This I fear is my vision of universal misery
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