A half-remembered embellishment in the spirit of Nietzche
Ocean
Oneness
Cast off at birth
The baby is the ocean
An expanse without boundary
Sensations are totality without name
Selfless, other-less, wordless and timeless…
Until the waves reach the shore and reflect back
And the sensations most struck become familiar
Patterns of light and sound are remembered
Infinity settles into its next selfhood
Crying out with selfish needs
To a motherly world
Cradled within
Oneness
Camel
Polarity
Parental masters
The youth is the camel
Kneeling down to the ground
Pridefully incanting “put a load on me”
Shouldering the weight of cultural fullness
Until burden becomes new knowledge and muscle
Reflexive memories from countless acts of service
Patterns of provision, protection and care
Infinity engaged and sustained in time
Young boys and girls shaped
By values of elders
Seeing only
Polarity
Lion
Truth
Responsibility
Young adults are lions
The heavier the youthful load
The more powerful the culture’s pride
Carrying the light and defending the ways
The frontier’s edge is met with cunning and claws
Where the greatest dragon stands fearsome guard
Halting progress with fires of “thou shalt”
Each scale emblazoned with authority
Only the fearless lion can slay
Expanding knowledge
Transcending
Truth
Dragon
Revolution
The dragon slain
Lions become dragons
The brighter the new Truth
The grander the shrine to protect it
The next generation inheriting the wisdom
Dragons make lions make camels out of oceans
Until the waves reach the shore and reflect back
Civilizations rising and falling in this flow
Patterns remembered and forgotten
Infinity weaving life in death
Carrying on the spark
Of our creation’s
Evolution
~r