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Wanting not to want

I want....."I".....want.......turns into "I need!"

 

For so long I have been a slave

to my own mind's "wanting".

 

Obeying all its/mine thoughts,

only from fear of the temptation's haunting.

 

Within my own mind,

I weld the shackles that blind my wings.

 

From these thinking thoughts is only emptiness,

and I'm aware but still chasing after empty things.

 

Why am I a slave to myself?

 

I thought that God granted free will to all man-kind......

....now I wonder if I'm man's kind.

 

But within the power of "Now"

....within the power of my "Being,"

I realized that not wanting to want is still a want,

I have been looking but now I'm seeing.

 

Be aware....be aware..."BE"......awareness!

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Jan 29, 2011
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