Cacye
Excerpt from the Book of Collected Holocaust Poetry, Unworthy Lives, Published 2004, Pages 75-76.
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Jason Lester Atkins
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Lazarus leaves us on our journey,
among a gathering of child-like souls
connecting in this circling sea of golden light:
Knowing, I am still Elfriede, learning
from more ancient voyagers on this spiritual sea,
connecting by my lingering catechisms of consciousness:
Learning from the enlightened Edgar, projecting
ten millenniums of holistic pictorials across my psychic screen:
Teaching, ten millenniums is but a wink in the eternal eye:
Watching Atlantis appear and disappear,
being born anew by many names:
Being destroyed again by man's dual natures:
Watching millions of moon rises and sun sets,
knowing, enlightenment is not a becoming
but, an endless traveling journey within ourselves:
This ancient traveler, re-incarnating before the age of ice,
slipping his mortal coil of chromosomes,
slipping in and out of his dream time dimensions:
Teaching, the lesson threads of happened truths,
are not as lasting as the mythical garment
into which these truths are spun ...
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