The Soft Repose
You are the river and I the knot of life, struggling against your flow.
I tighten to maintain my boundaries,
Like a defensive fortress,
Fearful of collision, fearful of being rejected,
Fearful of being pushed against my will,
Fearful too of being left behind.
Yet your touch exceeds my fear
And liquid love seeps triumphantly through solid rock,
Melting its hardness into the happy revelation
That deep within there is an eternal softening into You.
I loosen, and allow you to invade me,
Invite you to consume me
The heavy push to move ahead eases
Into the lightness of floating.
The anxiety to perform yields to the abandon of being performed.
The haunted seeking for secure outcomes
Transmutes into the peace of free suspension
In the limbo of your fathomless waters.
When I release the effort to ‘make’ myself, you make me;
At times the still calm of your depths
At times the effervescent froth of your surface
At times a tsunami capturing all eyes,
At times a nameless liquid swirl.
All through I hold in my heart
The soft repose of knowing,
That at every moment I am your secretion,
Carved by you, carried by you and loved by you.
- Anahita Sanjana (India)
Very inspiring poem, thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteWelcome Fabrice!
ReplyDeleteAnahita
Beautifully expressed!👏👏👏
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DeleteNice poetic narrative of experiential journey of self evolution of a seeker on spiritual path ...pranav Srivastava
ReplyDeleteWhat is the seeking on the spiritual path and what is self-evolution? Not the knotty struggle of one river against another in the flow of life to meet one unbounded Ocean of Existence.
DeleteWhy ""tighten to maintain my boundary?
DeleteIn ignorance the ego out of fear and resistance tightens to create separation. The poem is about the journey of defensive boundaries melting into surrender.
DeleteAnahita
Lovely poem
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DeleteWhy not (you both) be like rivers on the bosom of life herself, flowing together as tributaries to meet in the boundless ocean without boundaries? Do not ignore the Divine Lord's sublime words spoken to his dear companion Arjuna - "आपर्यमाणमचलप्रतिष्ठंसमुद्रमापः प्रविशन्ति यद्वत् | तद्वत्कामा यं प्रविशन्ति सर्वे स शान्तिमाप्नोति न कामकामी || Not he who lusts after (futile things), but he alone obtains peace in whom desires lose themselves like river water flowing into the ocean leaving it unaffected."
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