The Only Reality I Know
What matters is the clatter of internal machinery
turning over, the greased fluency of movement
ensuing as we breathe, to believe we are cognizant,
alive and still exuding a sense of wonder,
for this clear sky thunder we keep renewing,
falling yet pursuing our dreams,
for that is what keeps us here,
upright and overcoming fear, to prevail.
The whirring sound is evident
in each second of my being, seeing vistas passing
as I in awareness flowing to join the stream,
and even if I feel detached,
I am matched so eloquently to my dream,
this illusion of seeing, of reason and scheming
to uplift everything I am to a higher place,
the trace I feel within, a divinity.
I touch the world and in sensation
feed my lowly mind, in kind with all my human failings,
and suppose I do the reality,
based on a causality of some conclusion born,
a belief so flimsy it is but whimsy
I cling to in my awe of what is before me,
so I join the flock yet mock the idiocy,
the bleating wonder all I know.
Were I blind, or deaf, or mentally incapacitated,
would I perceive it all so differently,
as if incarcerated in a prison of my own,
so removed from reality,
my senses lead to a mirror I am shown,
and truth is but an agreement,
a succeeding parallel in which I am prone
to accept the obvious, but what’s obvious dethroned.
So I know I am here, my awareness my guide,
and hide I do from the possibilities that elude me
to the likelihood all I know is just illusion,
an institution I have ascribed,
yet I must push on, abscond with what I know,
and take it to the mountain I now climb,
for what is on high may share this bind I’m in,
this life and breathe debacle, the din of my waking mind.
What matters is participation, the escalation of my soul,
and in learning it matter’s not the reality I see,
rather the path I take in progression,
like a tree with roots far broader than its seeing,
I spread my girth within the earth
and connect with all I be,
within the comfort of awareness, my being,
the only reality I know.
Tony DeLorger © 2018
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