The Burden of Insight

You know that feeling right before insight?
It’s like you can taste the news
but your brain can’t quite see it.
Like your body knows a secret
and can’t tell the mind.
Or is it the mind that’s refusing to know?

It is a scary time, that moment
between dreaming and awakening.
It is an exciting time, the bent bow
ready to let fly the arrow.
It is a time of heartache when
knowing the path is walking the path.

When potential energy and kinetic energy are fused,
there’s no distance between intention and action,
choice narrows and seeing becomes doing.
And so, the mind refuses to see
what the body already knows.

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Meditation on a Kiss

The kiss was simple
It passed quickly from
sweet to soft to warm
slowly, taking each other in.

As it deepened
a lifetime of desire
danced precariously
where two lovers meet.

Eyes open, pupils wide,
hearts race
This perfervid kiss could
launch a thousand armies
or inaugurate a
new epoch of peace.

It is the very essence of passion:
distilled,
pure,
concentrated.

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