You are euphoric and want to embrace the whole world-
this is your weakest and most vulnerable moment-
Beware!

A friend sought your intervention
as he had fallen out with a mutual friend -
Beware!

I need no introduction
to my own heart----it knows me
well enough but on many matters
it chooses to disagree

And declares its independence
'  You can't push me aside'  indignantly
'   Don't you ever forget---in your darkest hour
   I never abandoned you--it was I who set you free'.

I must go away
from myself--- life
should not hold me back
and I would have said farewell to strife

in my new
becoming
as illumination
is unfolding--

everything takes on
a new meaning
if I look and step away
from myself---experiencing

a fresh
dimension
a clear
vision

old roots must die
for new ones to spring
murky waters can be washed away
only when clean water is flowing

the voice
of the past
should be let
to rust

only the heart
that's free
can be
happy

letting go
of the self and its every trapping
is to flower
into my true being.

So little I've learnt
understood even less
what then is the value of knowledge
which seems to be futile and useless?

CREDO

Let me walk
behind everyone
let me hear them talk.

Much would I learn
from what has gone before
patiently I'll wait for my turn.

Then enough would
I've seen and heard
and felt the ongoing mood.

Being last in the queue I could
walk away unnoticed
if the air were foul and the crowd is up to no good.

Truth eluded you
as with unclean hands you came
your guile it too quickly sensed
you fell on your own sword with your devious game.

It shall not forgive you
for defiling its name
its doors it shuts in your face
what you will reap is but ignominy and shame.