I know you wish for it
But can you handle it?
The connection between
Yourself and others.
Do you not understand
You are already in control?
Their perception and yours
Are influenced by will.
Do you make an effort
To understand others?
You try your utmost
But lose your way.
Do you make an effort
To help others understand?
You try your utmost
But your perceptions differ still.
What is the ultimate reality
Of such opposing views?
Strife, hatred, sorrow, envy,
Worry, many types of pain.
Is the impossible hope
For peace worth this?
Only God can say surely
But there is little we can do.
Do you see, in every heart,
That man-shaped vacuum?
Yes, I do, and I long to fill it
No matter its cost to procure.
Don’t you think it would be best
If all were of one consciousness?
No, for then we would be lost
Within the shoreless sea of ourselves.
Then, in the waters of wholeness,
Shall one choose singularity?
They would have the option
If they perceive it as such.
Then will they fulfill
That gaping man-shaped vacuum?
Perhaps in a joint condition
Of individual unity.
Then happiness is found
In unachievable balance?
Not so, for filling that hole
Does not make man complete.
Then how are we to perceive
If not through ourselves and others?
Realistically, for there is yet
Another vacuum pulling us.
Then true happiness cannot
Be found in man’s embrace?
True earthly happiness can
If the love indeed be true.
Then true happiness cannot
Be found in God’s embrace?
True Heavenly joy is unveiled
With Death in glorious Rebirth.
Then true happiness cannot
Be found in my own embrace?
Only should you fail to heed
The longing of your pleading heart.
Then what is the reason for
My utter misery and hatred?
The reason is that you seek
Whatever is obtainable.
Is it only natural for man t
To want for his pleasure?
That which is to gain must be
Given to those who deserve it.
So, is happiness obtainable
In this unfair, connected land?
You should not ask me, for
A single view is not reliable.
Do I possibly have hope for
Happiness among others here?
If you keep your mind on Earth,
Then you shall never know
The free contentment
Of Heaven.
Morning's Early Dark 