Awakening sense

what's the objection?

What constantly objects to giving up control?
What else but ego-mind's designs and devisings.

What is it that invites effacement of what we think we are?
What but our awakening-self seeking to annihilate separation from Self.

And what does ego-mind seek to avoid?
What but that precious state prized above all by our inner core.

For it reflects that one Self we're all branches of,
That one Beloved awakening through our labors of love.

anti-gravity

What does what's usually called awakening amount to,
But a glimpse, an initial waking up?

Ego-mind temporarily loses its gravity,
A release to see-feel-be, free of confining grips.

A door opening to what's beyond our usual mind,
As who we think we are loses gravity and collapses.

A heart-recognition of what's what, a turning point as self senses Self,
As all glamors fade before the presence of this Beloved.

calming the herd

What is inner focus without the usual tension,
But the specialty of our awakening-self?

It's a keen awareness of the Beloved's presence,
Without ego-mind's baggage along for the ride.

Without the bustling and resistance of our inner I's,
That herd of wild bulls soothed by heart's true longing.

For then the calm of our inner garden can prevail,
The world's noise drowned by the silence of Self's Ocean.

mercy's door

The Real I, the one Self, awakens through you and me, the false selves,
Which shows that even this ego-mind has its role to play.

It is this I as You, the Beloved, that opens mercy's door,
Igniting our hearts and unravelling who we think we are.

The more we feel separation from the Beloved, the Self in all,
The greater the urge to serve its awakening work.

All this can seem complex, even nonsensical,
But no doubt very simple to Real I awakening through the false self I call me.