1

 

What is an awakened mind?

One who sees? And

once one sees the sweet one sees

the bitter and the brain isn’t trained

in holding opposites at once

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Can you pick a dream

and live in light? Probably, sure

til' something knocks on your 

door like a heart attack and you realize your diversity is

one dimensional so

you rise

like bread

from bed or be found dead

and maybe that’s ok too --

the one true

point to life is surely living

it

so want to wake and work til' you can

dream again, no?

Like training to 

sleep through the feeling that you’e lying

on a bed of dying bodies elsewhere?

 

2

 

The princess — true and righteous —

will always feel the pea and never sleep

always up and trying

to perfect and

we're taught young to want

royalty because someone has to be

awake or no one ever could sleep safe. So 

is the truest true to be royal, with the joy

of knowing you are royal: woke and superior?

Or is the truest true in sleeping through

the night: training to ignore the pea? And maybe

the fattest truth is the nature of change —

the cycle itself —

from princess to pauper, waking and sleeping

depending on the weather — yes

       dear night crawler

       dear truth seeker

       dear pea feeler

life is a cycle so live

in passing and stop dying 

to see it better than

the other and you can't

stop dying

so just do anything

wordless

and worthy -- worthless

and wordy

 

3

 

Just go to sleep pea --

you'll wake with the sun

if you're lucky