The individual is
Torturer and torturee.
The misery of inner “me”s
Stoke one another.
Never apart,
Divided on assumption.
Arising together,
They exit the same door.
Merging in mutualism,
They combine-annihilate.
Freed from a Self (Poem)
What becomes freed
from a self?
Is it the world,
Plagued by selves?
Is it the self dissolved,
Freedom as nothingness?
Whatever the case,
The “I” is not freed
Until words are abandoned.
Persistent Release (Poem)
Overcoming self assumptions
Demands diligence.
The “me”,
A relentless resurgence
Deep presumptions,
Deep beliefs,
Relinquishing self,
Tremendous relief.
Waves or Uniqueness (Poem)
Bio-level: complex, dividing cells
Zooming in: layers of geometric energy
Beneath: particulates nested in wavy fields
Where is an individual entity?
Incessantly Present (Poem)
Now, I worry about future.
Now, I am lost in past regrets.
There is the oncoming,
Now it is the gone.
Herenow, I float
Along unfolding reality.
Herenow, my toes and thoughts
Have always been.
Personal Tunnel Slide (Poem)
With every moment forward,
We embed into nature.
The environment: “my” boundary.
I experience only my pipeline,
Tunneling through the world,
Grasping at light’s end fails.
My tube collapses in rear view.
Unmoving, it inverts.
Its walls, my only experience.
Yours is distinct.
Like noodles, we slide
Along one another,
Sharing the same plate.