The higher mind
is a highway to everywhere at once
to all beauty and truth
where peace and joy are constant
and everything is good.

It’s hidden in the lower mind
full of noisy obsessions
that slide along its syllogisms
like lazy snakes,
blind and fearful,
and thinks up a crazy world.

We hover in the dark between,
waiting for pain to cease
and time to end,
desiring a higher mind
or some compromise for less.