winning liberty

thebetterman
thebetterman Posts: 657
edited October 2005 in Poetry, Prose, Music & Art
possessor of the rajas and the sattva
you burn brightly in the night
possessor of my spirit and my heart
i'd follow you to the ends of the earth
devoted to you i am
in all your earthly pursuits
tell me your wishes
and i'll rub every lamp i see
tell me your desires
and i'll spill my blood to fill them
its you i'm bound to
while i'm here on this earth
with a love unconditional
and while my body will perish
far along in due course
i'll retain an evergreen soul
without a crease or wrinkle
cuz sometimes when you lose a gift
you get another one
-one thing to remember, always have a good time, all the time
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  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    "its you i'm bound to
    while i'm here on this earth
    with a love unconditional
    and while my body will perish
    far along in due course
    i'll retain an evergreen soul
    without a crease or wrinkle"

    I loved reading your poem, thebetterman!!! The part I cropped really got me and OMG, "I'll retain an evergreen soul", that's just flippin' fantastic!!! Beautiful! :)
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • thebetterman
    thebetterman Posts: 657
    aww man, i'm sorry, i meant to explain that part a few days ago when i saw your post. I actually stole some of that because i loved it so much. Its from Ghandi's interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita. I've been reading it out of curiousity and because i've been feeling pretty down recently, and i thought it was a good time to tackle it. I've been taking notes, writing down the parts that really strike me, whether from the text or from Ghandi's notes. So i stole them, but more so as a homage to their beauty. The evergreen soul phrase was one of the things i got from it.
    -one thing to remember, always have a good time, all the time
  • twin2
    twin2 Posts: 894
    I especially like the following lines:

    "cuz sometimes when you lose a gift
    you get another one"
  • Ms. Haiku
    Ms. Haiku Washington DC Posts: 7,389
    The first thing I thought of was wrists:

    a gift coursing
    in a river of blue
    life
    life
    There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
    The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird

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