Lose All Lying

The only time that I really know you

Is when we’re wrapped around one another

When our expressions lose all lying

When our minds may no longer maintain their gulf

It’s the gulf we all lay between one another

Out of fear, out of uncertainty, out of self-interest

Nothing said is entirely trusted, everything defended

Like fencing: thrust and parry, thrust and parry

Ever angling for advantage, veering for one-sided victory

Setting up fake targets to pull away at the last moment

Striking from hiding, where you should have known I was

Only learning when stabbed all the way through

Only lovers making love lose their guile

Only when they, when we, really let go

Only when mind and speech drift into oblivion

And all that remains is the body merging with heart

That refuge where we’re reaching, interlacing tendrils

That’s where I know you!

The you of no past, no future

No plans, no money, nothing to conserve or aspire to

A complete fidelity to the moment only

Let us find that truth again, and remain there!

Shhhh… no more talking, don’t even think

Your intellect, your ambitions, they betray you!

Only heart and body

Only here and now

There’s your truth!

There’s your divine revelation!