Mourning
by sybil via dulcimer - Inverse Times Tuesday, Aug 21 2018, 2:51am
international / poetry / post

would u mourn a caged bird
that takes flight from captivity?
i think not

why then strange man do u mourn a soul
that escapes the body which has held it captive?
giving up the ghost is no cause for concern
what u mourn is Your loss, a selfish thing

aware spirits are happy to leave the mortal coil
and enter again a rarefied plane more suitable
to their ‘particular’ needs, no toiling for gross foods
to feed gross bodies, no defecating or urinating
shaving, menstruation or fluid exchanges

has it occurred to u that spirits mourn those trapped in bodies,
lost to the finer realms of existence? would u trade
a life free of disease for a body wracked from head to toe?
i hope not

consider ur imagination, limitless, unmolested
and free to conjure whatever it pleases, it is not material,
consciousness is not physical yet because u are imprisoned
u falsely think ur mind is also trapped, not by anything but
what u falsely believe, u were created free and remain free
the challenge of this earth existence was to create a free
paradise on this plane, and what a fuckin’ mess u have made of it
yet u mourn those that have escaped, get ur priorities straight before
ur false beliefs condemn ur mind to live in a prison
permanently --

u see, slavery only exists in this earth plane
which u have transformed into a hell

u are free any time u choose yet u continue to slave,
i suppose it’s symptomatic, as is mourning freed spirits --
notice i make a distinction, as spirits are only free if they have learned
they are not imprisoned, nothing is able to confine a spirit
u confine and imprison yourself

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