Author Information
TO BE AND NOT TO BE (With due respect to William Shakespeare)
To be and not to be:
That's the enigma
It may seem nobler in the mind to suffer,
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune;
While battling tides in a sea troubles,
And opposing end them.
Yet, to die
Before death
Shunning the world and its past-times:
Isn't it something?
I met a hermit inside a cave
Assumed as dead by many
It was as if I was meeting myself
After having wandered
Through different ages
Wave upon wave
Asked him about
Truth and falsehood,
Death and life,
Suicides, homicides
Among other matters
Some truths, some lies.
His eyes invisible
His whisper echoed,
In his hiding dungeon:
As he passed on
To me his wisdom:
"Aspire and negate
Your egoistic self
Until you become
Totally nothing
Annihilate desire
And every base urge
And let the body die
And the soul be free
From captivity
If you can do this
Then only you will be
Something in nothing
Ponder deeply
And be not faithless
For only by being
Nothing at all
Can we be something
And avoid every fall."
So that was the truth
The sage told me
A fact so divine
That it changed me
Within and without
Completely.
be not.........hmmmmmmmm perhaps be not of this world that was how I took that. That we should not take our lives so very personally. I always say to myself in bad, good or otherwise times it is what it is and try not to attach too much emotion or anger or worth to it just let that moment stand as it is with no labels that is what I took away from your poem about your conver with that sage. No tearing up this time just a not so dissimilar ah ha moment for me.
you are a lightning rod with words for me tonight! winks
you know who.........so Why type it? winks