| Drunk Author: |
famousde |
| Description: |
young drunk poet at a bar and maybe stoned |
| Location: |
St. Louis, MO 88776 |
| When: |
1/5/2008 10:38:33 PM |
| What: |
bad poem |
| de comment: |
very very old poem I found and don’t remember when I wrote it |
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| The Whole and The One |
Making love
Makes everyone.
Gifts of days
We’re given.
All who have lived,
Just by being made,
Have effortlessly participated,
To give us the One -
Our own moment of self.
We owe the whole what?
Living for oneself,
Or living for the Whole?
Regardless of One’s aim,
We cannot escape
Contribution.
Each of us
From the beginning,
As seamless members
of the fluid Whole,
Are part of the first gift,
Receivers of life.
Patches woven
into an expanding lung,
Trapping the energy,
the soul - there being only
one spark - one eye.
Our one eye may see
Only the One,
Yet, always,
When a singe person looks,
The Whole sees.
If we wish to give
To others, or,
If we wish to give
Just to the One -
Either way,
We make ourselves.
Either as the Giver
or the Gift we remain;
And by being either
of these, we are both.
We are from time’s birth,
Every one of us,
A part of the gift
and also, as all receive
Their life – each ONE being
receivers of this gift of life
ourselves, we are all
Givers of this awakened
soul we share.
I often don’t know
What is giving.
What is right and helpful?
To avoid being selfish,
totally, a person
Would have to
So completely neglect
Themselves, and discontinue,
becoming;
And, in doing so, we
Become destroyed.
So, if I focus only
On what is right for the Whole,
Which means ‘Others’ in this,
Then I diminish and
Suffer Greater destruction.
But, as I am part of the Whole,
As I try to give only to the Whole,
The Whole would be diminished,
and Suffering Greater destruction.
Maybe the way to support
This whole human body,
Of many men living as The Many,
Is to love the One - the gift.
Right now, at this very moment
We are the gift - that is unwrapped
By every person ever born.
By appreciating our live,
and by selfishly enjoying,
Growing and maximizing,
This gift, we preserve
and grow it, not only for the
next receivers, but -
For the Whole, which is
Also all past givers
that have received.
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| Author, famousde |
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