[Thespiritexpress] Poem read Tuesday

[Riantee Rand]

> On Jun 23, 2025, at 11:47, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
> 
> Your Presence in Death
> 
> Thank you my love for the gift of your presence
> even in death, because of death.
> It is because of it that the journey you are on 
> is inscribed on my body with the ink of forgiveness;
> 
> it is because of it that having nothing left to lose,
> I have no preference, 
> although I care, I care a lot, equally, for everything;
> 
> it’s because of it that I do not mind being swept in the current 
> with no attachment 
> for it is the current of all opportunities,
> a place of opening, receiving, investigating with curiosity, 
> a neutral place where the light of my divinity is constantly unfolding.
> 
> You offer me the relief of not having another task,
> the power to know that the way I see manifests my world,
> the power to be me, whole, 
> to become the axis that joins what’s above and what’s below.
> 
> Don’t search for meaning, you tell me,
> listen, respond and let meaning be revealed.
> In the world I often visit lately 
> words don’t stand for something else, 
> they contain their own irrational meaning and significance.
> Don’t ask me to be reasonable, the gods don’t have our logic,
> their smile is ambiguous, it contains the deep sadness
> that underlines everything we experienced since our earthly birth.
> 
> Night is our home, you whisper,
> like the sun we return to it every evening 
> to rise again in the morning, 
> it’s a place where all opposites meet, where the paradox reigns.
> And for this we have to do nothing.
> No more running from yourself, enter the darkness with no fear,
> remember, opening to all of life including death is pleasure 
> so, die before you die.
> 
> When we have a taste of eternity
> we long to return to that unlimited Self
> for it is our true state of being.
> 
> You can do it in space and time, 
> at your own time!
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