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God is not

reluctant to change

The truth is

The Changeless

never has need to change

Recalcitrant senses rushing

Desires after desires, raging

like fires … never satiated

Changing, ever in stride

Only for worse

Making this gift of life a curse

Wrapped in emotions

Often times astray

in self-deceptions

Yet, not relieving, but reliving

our ego                                                

We believe we know

when we know not even the micro

Knot after knot, ever in knots

Pained prisoners in a pain-body

Living a life of our own falsehood     

Us and God …

NEVER like two lines in parallel

nor lines that meet in urgency

Intersect only in emergency

Yet, busy we act

Our world of enormous endless norms

ever looking for forms

of the  ONE  ever  formless

So come

come out of this falsehood, come

With modesty and humility

confident  nonetheless

In words plain and simple, not stray,

Say …

Let my 'world' end

not reluctant to merge or to lose

and through this loss

of identity and ego to find a gain again

in being, not becoming

the  ONE  ever resplendent

For thou already are

and ever were THAT

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• Vijay Nikore

(original and unpublished)