Eastern Depravity
By Jim Elliff

    The lure of mist,
      The mystical
      The beckoning unknown
        Mysterium tremendum compelling
          A falling-through mist
          Ever-rolling into emptiness
          Forgetting me-ness
            For the fullness of my soul.

    Melting into oneness with All,
      Meditating away-ness,
      A musing non-thinking-ness,
        Union in vast nothingness of Universe-Soul.

    Demagogue Alertness!
      Back to here now,
      To fear now
        The risen wall before me—
        Go over it, under, around it!
        Quickly!
        The debilitating obstruction to my saneness—

    Erase it!—
    The here yet history-found,
      Truth-bound,
      Resurrected,
      Mind-using,
      One-waying,
        Confronting,
        Affronting,
        Aggravation to my freeness,
          My free-falling into vacuous bliss-ness,

            —CHRIST!





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