i shall live forever . . . a gift from the inner child

i shall live forever

a gift from the inner child

i remember

when i was a kid

i used to innocently

knowingly

proudly boast

“i am going to live forever”

i ask my self

when did i stop believing that ?

the world has taught me death

and i am thankful

for now i understand

Death is man’s metaphor

for birth

what the Christ said

stays in my head

“i lay down my life

that i may pick it up again

for i have the power to do so”

so i do so

while glowing

in the knowing

that “IS”-ness

is eternal

as is this “NOW”

and some how

some way

i must let go of my focus

on the potential sorrow

of the morrow

and the ways

of past days

and open this singular eye

and cease to deny

that death is an ultimate end

which the finite illusions

of the world

defends

let us speak life

with a rife

of conciliations

with unmovable

affiliations

in consciousness

to truth

that we are eternal beings

regardless

of what we are seeing

and this is my contribution

i shall live forever

a gift from the inner child

(c) 2 November 2011 : William S. Peters, Sr.