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The Journey Within

Life is a system of matter

Sustaining your ego and bladder

But what of the consciousness held in your head?

Something of virtue, or something to dread?

A little of both

My mind most certainly thinks

A gift from the heavens

Is something with links

 

Links to our nature

Links to our mind

Links back in time

Are what make us think

So don't fool yourself

With lies told abroad

Science is of virtue

And surely no fraud

So don't speak so quickly

Be faster to think

Rejection of old thoughts

Beliefs held abroad

Is where one must start

To learn of his God

 

Forget those religions

You learned in your schools

Of churches

Of fools

All held down beneath

Their skull

They fear

What they know to be near

The lies of their past

Safely guard them to last

 

So I pray you begin

The longest of journeys within

But take heed, friend

Of the lies you'll find

Instead, think within

Your mind and your heart

Just don't forget to begin

The journey within

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truman-brislin-miller
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Published
Jan 5, 2012
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