Tat Tvam Asi

When time stops and the world fades away The senses collapse and the ropes begin to fray The heat of knowing gradually growing burns through the bonds that lead me astray

As the waves flow through me one after one Even though I'd thought one goes blind staring into the sun All words escape me and shrinks the thinking mind As the life-force rises on its ecstatic run The sun shines brightly and my blind eyes see finally that I am That Eternity

I argue and fight and flame and flaunt my might but when I look deep deep inside the chasm there is but emptiness as I deal with it's dying spasm I am dying yet I live because I'm not whom I see finally I am -- That Eternity

But it took a long time Took far too long to break free Break free of those bonds that were biting into me Immersed in that stillness the emptiness of bliss Breaking through that miasma of myself but a modicum of peace The dams finally gave out and like a raging stream the light suddenly rushed in drowning my indignant scream

When I looked up again where had I gone? I was but nothing yet was every one I was in everything and everything was part of me And so I knew I am that Eternity

It wasn't easy as the observed said -- who is it that's asking me to mend my ways? If you are not me and I am not you who are you then and who am I too? What is this Eternity that you bring forth... Do you even have a clue?

Then Aham Brahmasmi and Tat tvam asi rang silently in my ears deafening me It slowly unfolded to my confounded wit I had to learn to sit back and learn when to quit

Trying so frantically to not try so hard I am but a paradox of my dualistic heart And so when the full becomes empty and the emptiness fills me I become that one -- That Eternity.