[Thespiritexpress] Fwd: Poem read at Mastery

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> Subject: Poem read at Mastery
> Date: October 8, 2021 at 1:16:00 PM PDT
> 
> 
> Ages
>  
> When the child was a child,
> she was so very little
> she came down from where she had been
> and landed ever so lightly 
> on top of a tree.
>  
> At five she struggled to come down
> to the lower branches and join her tribe
> in playful existence.
> Her own life was so far away
> that she forgot.
>  
> At ten she was happy to be 
> with friends mindlessly swinging 
> from branch to branch,
> just like monkeys,
> following the trail of popularity.
> .
> At twenty she desired the world below
> all of it, fame, fortune, freedom,
> but never condescended to descend.
> She wanted to remain high up,
> and have all eyes on her.
>  
> At thirty she heard the ground calling her,
> but was determined to learn from above
> all there was to know,
> come down only as a prophet, 
> an example to all.
>  
> At forty 
> she believe she knew so much better.
> She came down to earth
> to be useful, change what wasn't right, 
> redress the wrong, repair the faulty.
>  
> She helped people through their crises,
> assisted them in being born, in dying,
> she supported, succored and aided the world 
> to get to the next stage of advancement,
> It nearly killed her.
>  
> At fifty she was happy 
> just to be and to have found out what that was.
> She touched the ground for the first time,
> felt the network of ancestral roots  
> growing deep and traveling wide under the earth.
> She was related to everyone and everything.
>  
> At sixty she took a dive inward 
> to an infinite vastness,
> catching the tiny movement of dreams
> at the very heart of matter,
> and she traveled 
> within the Now of her seventies and eighties,
> towards the immeasurable pleasure
> of egoless existence.

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