[Thespiritexpress] Fwd: Poem read Tuesday

[Riantee Rand]

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> From: Riantee Rand <riantee at mcn.org>
> Subject: Re: [Thespiritexpress] Poem read Tuesday
> Date: June 23, 2025 at 14:09:23 PDT
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>> On Jun 23, 2025, at 11:47, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org <mailto:thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org>> wrote:
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>> 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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