A Reverie

[NikolaiI]

My eyes are awake,
The air before me alive and awake,
The ground awake,
All around me is life,
And death,
And the two are one.
Everything around me is alive,
And there is no I,
That is seperate from the alive dead world.

My day is complete
I live and breathe and eat and spend time walking,
I am as if in a dream,
And when I dream I am awake.
Each minute of my day is practice,
and practice is awakeness.

I am not so much the breather as the air that I breathe.
Not so much the knower but the known.

I cease to be and I never was,
Yet I have my memories.

As I sit here with you now what I know
Is being passed to you, my dreams,
Everything I have heard or seen,
My world, and what I make of it,
We do not speak of it, but we have the same yearning.

My world is unstable and for this I am grateful.
All of my dreams come from the night.
All of my worlds are on this one Earth,
And I associate myself with the Earth,
And my yearning is of the Earth and universe.

The swirling currents rise and take me.
I disappear into the mist,
And walk into a dream world.

[TheFifthElement]

Am I missing something NikolaiI - isn't this 'my eyes are awake' renamed?! I like the change of title.

[ampoule]

I thought I had read it before. I didn't want to admit it. hehe

[NikolaiI]

Ah, shoot...it never came up for me when I tried posting it at first, so I thought it hadn't, so I thought I still needed to post it.

[blazeofglory]

There is an immersion of everything into one whole, integrity or something we call self actualization in this piece.

[dibyendra]

Very thoughtful poem Nikolail! You and blazeofglory have some similarity in writing philosophical poems. Both of you write so well and I wonder. Keep up your good work!