Liberation

Liberation-

Stripped of all my chains worn so proud and bitter
Withered and tired as I have been, they fall at my feet

Faltering through a tattered and frayed dead sea of men
Who cling grasping at those chains to uphold them

Why do they not know that which they seek is so
Crying out for freedom, tearing at themselves to see
Clawing at the earth to find something that is everything

The veil that covers their face is their very own hand
No shadow is to be found, so they trace one in sand
Rushing madmen chanting "where is it, oh where,
I know it is here..somewhere?"

Seeing, knowing that it has been there all the while
Let the dead bury the dead, with no remorse
I have got no time, no time. Love asks me to walk on

Walls that defined men have long since crumbled
Only to find that those walls were the confines
Of the madmen’s pretense of mind

No longer shall I waste away in a desolate prison of grief
While a grand palace is within me at every turn
No longer shall I suffer for your suffering
While my suffering bears yours further

You say you wish to see me fear as say you must
Though no longer mine, I feign revel in it, completely
My suffering tears your heart in two, I enact it so
Angered for my foolishness but still won’t let me go

When I left this world, you said don’t go
Stay here and live as a lake in a thimble
But I will not, there is nothing wisdom
Living as a dead man, when life is all there is

No longer can believe in it, For I know
So, I dry my tears and go home in the beauty
Love and truth that I know so deeply, I AM

Shaktivaya~Thai