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Our walls tremble
with every wind
and each of the world's
whispers remind
of our impermanence
yet my optimism,
it never fades
each of us, every one
are traveling this
upwards trajectory
that has the very same destination
I don't love you
in spite of your imperfections
but because of them
each of them, every one
is like a diamond's facet
a certain uniqueness
that leaves
its fingerprint
on the Universe.
~Eric Vance Walton~
The Greatest of Secrets
You languish, awash in worry
that time is slipping by
and all that once was
has long gone down the road
never to pass your way again
they tell you you’re a sinner
and you remember
when your innocence
wouldn’t allow you to believe
but time and their wicked words
have so deliberately whittled you away
it is they who tell you to keep coming back,
dangling the hope of salvation
just beyond your fervor’s grasp.
But there are a few things
that they have failed to tell you
you are miraculous, you are divinity’s spark
the power of your soul is a sleeping giant, long exiled
if you only knew the power that you possess
your eyes would stream tears of joy as if awakened
from a terrible nightmare to realize the greatest of secrets,
that you are an emperor in beggar's clothes indeed.
~Eric Vance Walton~
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Fugitive
shiftless moods breed certain fools
who lose their way when darkness falls
wandering souls who’ve lost their way
and fall from grace when duty calls
away they run to foreign lands
that call them so invitingly
to begin the cycle once again
until a problem arises, then they’ll flee
until their woes weigh them down
and begin to slow their tired feet
their heads are buried in their hands
their tired eyes filled with deceit
for all their lives they’ve been a fugitive
running from an awful ghost
this apparition that dwells inside them
they are almost sure to boast
is the source of all they’re problems
all their ills and woes
but they are not caused by this apparition
but by a far greater foe
this beast that dwells inside them
and their soul, he’s surely bought
this fierce and ugly beast
is none other than negative thought
All That Really Matters
a perpetual stranger
traveling down
this dark and narrow, twisted trip
of blissful contradiction
with heart wide open
absorbing all this life
has to give while
wandering the razor's edge
in peace and harmony
ever so thankful
for wounds that sting
and the laughter that heals
in all these many years
I've never lost faith
that each step
brings us closer
to that place of perfect completeness
where we wake up in wisdom
to cast all aside
all of our favorite demons
and finally realize
that love is all that really matters.
Meditation
how lucid is your soul tonightas guards are put to rest? When not one is stirring ‘round you and the sun is setting west,
your true being is emerging as facades yield one by one as you long to merge with oneness and to greet the golden sun,
free from inhibitions imposed by the mind you call your own freedom from the past mistakes that haunts your Earthly home,
cross-legged, in the lotus you begin to clear your wearied mind wishing for a sliver of a moment to leave the struggle far behind
your pulse begins to slow as the void becomes your breath your heart begins to soothe you ever-beating in your chest,
dancing somewhere in the stillness breaking shadows far and near where a worry’s no longer a worry and a tear is not a tear,
a wave is all consuming a bright beam breaks clouds above you reach your precious goal and for a moment become Love.
