Solitude Poem by Ali Rahimi

Wrap yourself in contemplation, meditation
Away from corruption, seduction
A path to purgation, illumination, subjugation
To achieve self-sufficiency and emancipation
Desert hermit monastic tradition
Anchorites are consecrated in funeral rites
Dead to the world, withdrawn from secular society
Spiritual life in isolation
Remove yourself from society, like
Desert mothers, desert fathers living in
Egypt, Palestine and Syria
Mulling over deep thoughts and reflections
Paradoxically if we are isolated
We inflate our ego, we get selfish
But community keeps it in check
Hermitage, lonely in solitude, away from
Ghostly vile societal pressure
Solitary confinement or livening in castles?
Religious metaphysics of Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists
Enforced solitude bringing comfort and consolation
Are we trapped or victims of time?
We can transcend all that, or go for
Monastic rules for comments or confessions
We have to go into our souls and discover
Diagnosis of human restlessness, or
Spiritualize together?
Retreat into ourselves, immerse in books in libraries?
Conversing with great people of past while reading?
Have a place for solitude in your mind
Or shuttle in and out of solitude
Prepare your mind in advance for solitude
Burning in soul and listening to music of self
Descartes’ meditation, wonder about foundation of knowledge, or
Seat ourselves alone by the fire
Free of all worries
To demolish our former opinions with care
Ho do I know I am not dreaming?
Deception of living in virtual reality?
The apparatus in gaining confidence?
Get rid of tyranny of senses
Do it out of your own rational contemplative self
Concealing yourselves from others
Spiritual exercise, discernment practices
Adam Smith’s inflation of our own egos
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s natural bliss of solitude, in nature with god?
Emerson says leave your books and look at the stars
Deliberateness, independence
Build your house with your own hands
Wittgenstein’s, Hegel’s mental, physical and emotional solitude
Wordsworth’s ‘’I wandered lonely as a cloud’’
To seek solitude, to get away from the worldly daily strife
Contemplate your future, past or present
Prisoners in prisons are in solitary confinement of their own device
Like a lone wolf, Spartans, mental Spartans
When Romans arrived, Julius Caesar
Celts are ferocious and solitary
Josef Conrad’s Heart of Darkness?
Apocalypse Now? this is the end now
Anarchy is a form of solitude
Lonely in an emotional wilderness derived by solitude
Get happiness, enlightenment and fulfillment
Throw all material goods away
Like Robinson Crusoe
Far from the madding crowd
Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment
Man’s primeval instinctive genetic make up
Ultimately you are born alone and die alone
No distractions, meditative state, or
Thomas de Quincey’s confessions of an English Opium eater?