(Listen to "Mirror")

 

Mirror

 

So we know that this is something.  Now, cosmologies abound

But we agree there’s at least one thing, and when we turn around

It’s still there, the rest of it, the everything else.

So does it bear contesting it?  Everything, and Myself.

But wait a minute, there’s a hitch

If you’re there in it, then How?  What?  Which?

If we agree reality may simply be what we perceive

And what we see we do believe, where does that leave duality?

You see me as part of the rest as does each and everyone here

It isn’t really such a stretch to think and reach a point to peer

Out from that bubble of fractional here-and-there-ness

Where we stop seeing double with actual self-awareness

So in practical terms, I guess that means

A new can of worms, a big hill of beans

When you’ve got to fight to pay the bills—

You can’t just write and sit on hills

Pondering the Great Unknown

Wandering the world alone

But if we catch that little sense

Of a weave and hatch, but not a fence

Then suddenly it’s easier to do those things you might avoid

And then you find you’re pleased to serve the Everything!  The Cosmic Void!!

OK so maybe the rhymes get carried away

But then maybe it’s time to hear what they say:

The struggle is optional!  Attitude, choice!

Consider it dropped, platitudes voiced.

But take a moment to think and it all becomes clearer

Turn to someone, and blink, and look in the mirror.