Is Your Soul Waking? Poem by John Duffy

(A lone voice whispers)


Every day, do people look for a life-changing truth but has it become commercial

A new rehearsal by an old hidden hand

For that truth,
The real truth

Is it hidden throughout the land

And is the soul indentured at birth to conform to its new norm

To never see it

But is the human experience
Stripped down to its essential form

Does it have its own unique voice
Light and sound

A soul
Not indentured to wander around self-blinded

If it pauses in a commercialised world to look around

Not indentured to not
learning to read or speak its own inner language

For a lifetime of reading thousands of books

Will not give us the truth

Some are looking for in a quest of soul reshaping

We can only be guided by living life through better eyes

Before we all die

And is that why you're here

Because you love writing or reading poetry

Because it's your soul speaking and expressing its true inner language

As it overcomes indentured barriers of fears

For some say the greater part of the soul lies outside

Not inside the body

In a simple truth called soul waking

Experiencing all we meet

Before our time as human beings is retaken


(C)
Copyright John Duffy

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