Brian Taylor Poems

It is now two millennia since
the Security Seraphims were withdrawn
and the Gates of Eden reopened
to the General Public.
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C is the speed of Light
Only Light can travel at C
Nothing can travel
faster than light
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EGO
is the child
of the marriage of self and body;
is the awareness of separateness
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When we were very young
we dug up the ground
to find Australia.
Australia was out.
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Why wake him?
You woke to nothing.
Do you think he won’t?
Your hand will guide him firmly and away,
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Why did they spend so much time there
in the anteroom of death?
What could they prepare?
Paper possessions as light as breath
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The happiest old
have nothing and don’t mind.
The happiest young
are old before their time.
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Lions don’t lie down with lambs
because they know
lions don’t lie down with lambs.
They lie down with lions
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“Oh Lord, I have terrified
my soul at your graveyards
where the spirits of your people
thought to rest
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The more they take
and do not make
an adequate contribution,
the more what they owe
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