For so long 

I’ve wasted time

running to 

false gods – 

all those obvious, at first,

and also 

in the early days of 

lifted ignorance…



But now,

as I genuinely seek only the

One

Who 

Is

Truth, 

false gods are more subtle – 

made of dreams

and ideas – or maybe ideals – 

or masks of

righteousness

and 

compassion – 

and in a glorious jolt, 

I see them – these subtle false gods – 

and the lifetime cloak of incompleteness

is lifted

in the simple identification of this…



Just as I cannot

“bake someone (or myself) happy”

I will never receive 

joy

in success

or

knowing anything...



And, that may be why I feel so much Joy

in the darkest hours 

of the morning…



I don’t know for sure, but perhaps it is true –

while the whole world is yet asleep 

(or so it seems to me)

there 

is

where

I experience You – 

always

Your Presence

just for me!