[Thespiritexpress] Fwd: Poem read at Mastery

[roz at mcn.org]

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Roz


>> 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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