lover of truth...

i take this light to my breast as a lover of truth

for in this world there is no protection to find 

the boat of my journey waits on the waters of reality

where i will set out to find my soul 

that is lost to my awareness as the shadow over the moon

i will set out on this journey and see many sights

but will not look to them for my succor 

because the light is not made of other and this is not 

where i will lay my head to rest day and night 

the boat is the body that i ride to find this heart so true 

i take it as a shadow really and will not put my heart in it 

because i am not made of earth and things that die away

i will look to the sun as i journey onward 

even though i am afraid or hungry or thirsty 

i will not make these things stop my quest to the soul of all

as i move about i will be within the heart and teachings 

as i do not know what else is right...

only what has put this soul here now is what is moving 

and i am following this course to be in rightful mind 

onward i go in and out of mind and shadow

and waters that feel to swallow the me ..

and sometimes feeling so lost again and unable to be in 

what is real...

yet i go to where i must go which is onward as a one that knows not the end...

and looking always about for a bit of rest and quiet

in this dark i see a light that shows the way clearer..

on this night so very dark --

i rest wearily beneath the stars and dream of heaven and earth and 

great torrents of rain and rushing winds and jutting mountains

and ocean waves crashing and light breaking thru all about

and then i look to see the o ne that is to call me home

blessed dear i am not made of what i thought 

as this self i thought i knew is going and dissolving fast into the unknown

that is to bring awakening 

and this my dear is what is well with the soul

and all that has happened is truly a dream

as the seeker vanishes into the absolute 

the light of all is 

what love and compassion to be freed 

for what i knew as *me* before is not to show itself 

or be what is center 

oh heart of all --

true and forever present 

this *me* has never been in reality

only this that is 

not *i* or anything but this 

o ne 

eternal 

pure being...

light of all...

om