If you knew everything there is to know,
Then how could you ever learn anything or grow?
If you somehow knew all that will ever be
Could any decision that you decide upon ever make you free?
If your mind was everything and everything was in you
Could their ever be anything else for you to do?
And there you are – right in the middle of this inquisition,
A slave to your own reality – chained to your own constitution.
But it is you who has allowed yourself to be caught in this net
You came here not to remember anything but to forget.
You have forgotten who you are and in your own grand illusion find
A dream of freedom and free will which further confuses your mind.
For knowing everything is a girdle of limitless limitation,
But here we have a place of both the known and the unknown – called creation.
In this ignorance you have something to choose,
Freedom from perfection – there was no other way to lose.
So you see – only if you know yourself as that which is not true,
Only there could you be free to select whatever you want to.
Within a single mind, two hands and two eyes; you think, feel and see
These envisioned experiences – only now they can truly be.
Yes, free will also gave you the choice to forget from where you come,
Yet, the closer we return to that place – the happier we become.
I learned to control my awareness and thus I can oft return,
But the closer I get the less choice remains for me to learn.
Though I long for and receive more and more of the infinite’s touch,
The more I also long for the finite in me not to know so much.
The realities of consciousness are both mind altering and eye opening. If you have never experienced such an event then you will hardly be able to understand this poem. But dear friend, that is a good thing. But that doesn't mean that if you can understand this poem it is a bad thing either. It's like a two sided coin. Whichever side is up is known. Now you may say that if one side is known - then it is easy to know what is on the other side. In this poem I play with the known and unknown making the other side out to be a mystery. Indeed, just like the coin, we do that our entire lives. We always know what is on the other side of the coin. The fun of life is in the asking, "But what if?"