Friday, August 1, 2014

The Exalted Hunger

A virtuous hunger
My being
A thirst of revelation
My burning nature
Consuming everything I am
For first comes the fire
And eternity comes not much later

The exalted fearlessness draws me in
For I am to be a part of all of this
Not to give up my worldlyness
I see transcendence as a reward
That brings you back again
As a hero soul
And my honor binds me forever
To not leave this place of my birth
As to stay in balance
With the twin tides of life
My muse and my maker

But to return inside the righteous hunger
I surrender
And allow myself to be consumed
The familiar  scent of death
Brings me a joyful eternity

Death has become a flower to me
And as I try to cultivate this flower
My remaining mortality
Falls away
Leaving scars of immortal blood

It has begun as lessons in mysteries
For these are the mysteries
That hold your being
A mortal
Mortality is nothing but an uncleanliness of ignorance
Towards our judges
And towards everything
And as they judge us
Some take only what belongs to them
Others steal their life from the plants and animals
Without ever knowing

This is the place where knowledge sets you free
This is the place for Warrior Buddhas
For how else would anyone deserve eternal paradise
If they left their brothers and sisters
To their suffering

To guard love against its ignorance
To guard out of love
Is the highest law

Not this frailty of meekness
Strength and honor my being
And power from all things
The hidden power between dusk and night
Sunrise and day

Alternating paths of transcendence and worldlyness
And I have asked
To be taught the secrets of the heart
For it is mine to discover

Hades is a place of my deliverance
For I take responsibility for myself
And will not fear the justice of suffering
Rather this justice which brings me past
Human frailties

Ghosts don't haunt me
They deliver me
Past the Great Emptiness
Where hunger is supreme
And thirst a queen

Demons don't attack me
They tell me secrets
And this place I am becoming
Secrets and mysteries
In this place of blood flesh and bones
It is revealed

Dionysius comes to drink the nectar of my life
In return for the nectar of knowledge
I doth consume
And always in honor of Zeus and Elysium
Let the demigods honor Ariadne
For she returns all things to their nature
In the presence of Elysium
I doth declare the ultimate goal
With both my actions and my words
My blood flesh and bones