[Thespiritexpress] Poem: Tulips from Toni

[Riantee Rand]

My poem read by Toni at Mastery
> 
> .
> The Tulips from Toni – To Be or not to Be
>  
> All the tulips on my table have lost their heads 
> but their bare arms still reach upwards 
> in an act of worship
> that carries me to farther horizons,
> opening new paths, claiming my higher self.
> An elated melting of all my senses
> merges all in the All.
>  
> The early morning light streams on petals
> scattered in gentle surrender
> like colorful wings ready for flight.  
> I am filled with the bliss of knowing 
> it’s all perfectly as it should be. 
> The perfect headless tulips are there 
> to impart reverence.
>  
> Then I forget and go about my day, 
> but when I look for my list 
> I can’t find it anywhere.
> It was right by the vase of tulips,
> I suspect them to have swallowed it!
>  
> Could it be why they lost their heads? 
> Too big a load, I guess, 
> they surely must have felt the need to download! 
> Downloading however requires a receiver
> with space enough to accept the burden.
> Who might that be? 
> And I find myself becoming 
> the voice of the headless tulips.
>  
> Don’t worry, it says,
> your list was hard to digest,
> but the tulips easily dealt with it.
> 
> You better lighten up next time though,
> don’t try to do so much,
> don’t pile up duties, responsibilities,
> and don’t take yourself so seriously,
> but mostly,
> don’t pass on your burden to anyone else,
> allow the trail be revealed 
> that takes you back 
> to that place you never left,
>  
> let the merging happen, 
> our voice is your voice
> your voice is everybody’s voice 
> in this moment of ecstasy.
>  
> Tulips that talk, headless or not,
> I must be out of my mind!
>  
> That’s right, the voices answer in unison.
> Out of your mind 
> is 
> the only way 
> for you 
> to
> BE!

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