Alone again but more alone than ever I
have been since ever I have been me.
Most would say I wasted all my
talents on obsessions, circumventions, and preoccupations.
So I’ll repeat my psychological
evaluation here: my father never introduced me to the world; my mother was
completely fearful of it.
This left me with one simple task
while in and of this world: to tread upon the tiger's tail without alerting it
to my inquiring presence.
I could write this story now as if
this character possessed a choice in plot, development, or setting. But I
didn't.
So let me end this introduction
with my lifelong findings: there’s no world to introduce except a false one.
And fear is why the world itself is false.
The world will never tell you this
because it doesn't know it. And the ones who really know it know there's
nothing to be told. I’d listen to them.
Oh to be sure, there are religions
that will sell the sea to every wave within this ocean but religions are the
world’s own fears personified and organized to hide them in some other hell.
And please do not misunderstand me.
I'm still going further. The only reason why I'm writing is this entropy of
poetry. This form enjoys the rhyme of dancing with the beauty of the truth it
knows to date.
First, there’s only love. And if we
listened to the Beatles back in nineteen-sixty-seven, we'd already know this.
Then again, if John and Paul were listening, they'd never write the song, or I,
of course, this poem.
Love is what we are without the
need for wanting love or making love or needing to be loved and once this faith
in love is truly followed, there’s no ‘we’ or 'me' remaining. Jesus Christ, just listen
to his message.
Last, the only thing you need to
know is there is absolutely nothing to be known. In fact, the thinking that
there's something to be known is why one never knows that great unknown. The
Cloud Unknowing says: unknow and know your—no, that—yes, my—unknown.
I'll end with just this other way
if love is not the hard direction wired within your brain. Deconstruct the
world as now you see it: tread upon the tiger's tail without alerting it to your
inquiring presence.
Sometimes I'll talk to me so I will listen to myself. Like a rolling stone.
