Friday, August 14, 2020

I Know Mervyn...


Thomas Hart Benton


I know Mervyn felt this compassion 
and deep desire for others, 
to reach them in their prisons. 
Many poets and conscious beings 
use the imagery of confinement 
to describe part of the journey, 
and I feel it is powerful and relevant especially now. 
William Blake, as he wandered the streets of London 
saw in people’s expressions, 
“The Mind forged manacles”, also. 
So powerful a description for the prison of sleep 
and unawareness of the mind 
and how it can twist and devise our true reality 
and “Birthright”. 
It is after all our true Birthright to be “Awake” 
to taste presence, 
be in state of what work calls “Man number five”. 
We must keep reminding everyone, 
no matter how - 
can be with a silent smile, 
an intention we project - 
that there is hope to escape the prison. 
~C


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