to LIVE (a poem)

Still in the darkness
I Am
Peace

A thought from within
To Be
Free to feel, to experience
To LIVE

In that moment awakened
I Am
Real
I wear the mask, a shell of my Self

Peace now pieces, the stillness forgotten
I birth
Duality

Living In Fearless Emotion
I feel the intangible
Perceive the imperceptible
Joy, pain
Courage, FEAR
Good and
EVIL, I LIVE

Until the darkness returns
The weakness underlying my strength
Transcendence
Brings sweet surrender
Each piece I re-collect
Remember
Remove the mask
and return…

by Acuminous (c) July 2009
written for the in-world Egbe Akowe Writing Group