[Thespiritexpress] Riantee's poem that she read for Mastery Last week

[Ron Nadeau]

Beaucoup de bisous
Riantee

Measures

 
Every time I am not totally at ease with another 

I am inauthentic,

whenever that other is not at ease with me,

I am inauthentic,

A sure measure of my beingness.

 
Any time I cannot receive a compliment 

without embarrassment 

I am in fear, 

when I am unable to return the tribute 

without hesitation

I am not my true Self.

 
Every time I am not in love

I miss the point of me,

the temptation of human existence 

waves the fearful flag

in front of my eyes

and takes me into stories. 

 
Worries, fatigue, concerns,

planning the list for tomorrow,

the things to get done,

the obligations,

the deadlines. 

I say hello, I say goodbye.

I bypass the now, 

I leave it behind, 

I trudge ahead,

I look back,

I stumble, 

I fall.

Only then do I look around

and finally 

I see.

 
In the silence of contemplation

I receive the purification

of my fears. 

A mist penetrates the walls 

and dispenses its goodness 

to the atmosphere.

 
I recognize the possibility

to take the shadows in,

embrace them all.

I pull myself all the way 

to the end of the darkest darkness

then with a rubber band effect

I shoot myself all the way into the brightest light.

 
I baptize the now, 

I forgive myself,

I am forgiven.
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