[Thespiritexpress] Poem read Tuesday

[Toni Bernbaum]

This poem…..so deep, so  vast….to be read again and again. 
Thank you Riante for these death defying reflections…..nobody reflects it like you do!
Moved me deep into the marrow……thank you. 
❤️

> On Jun 23, 2025, at 2:43 PM, Riantee Rand via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress at lists.mcn.org> wrote:
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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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