Man Cannot Live On Bread Alone

In my search for meaning I planted a seed Not knowing what kind of plant it was I put my faith in the unknown (God) I published my hopes in the journal of life And waited for my seed to emerge For the curtain of mystery to be lifted For my blindness to be shattered And my faith strengthened I prayed for rain and I prayed for sunshine I prayed under the blanket of darkness And I prayed inside the tunnel of hope It was not an easy path To be lost inside the womb of existence Not knowing what tomorrow holds I sifted through many books Just to pass time I read all sorts of magazines And studied all kinds of subjects From geography to mathematics I looked through the prism of the material world Hoping to get a glimpse of the unknown Dissecting all known knowledge I was hoping to see the fibre of mystery I studied medicine And opened all sorts of pathways To the top table of materialism I was ready to forget To remember not my seed That I have planted many years ago But something kept nagging me Asking me to look outside the physical world Into the realm of the spirit It was the Silence within That tapped on my heart And a door was opened Where I found myself staring at the bowl of existence It was not something to hold and possess It was something beyond possession It was something to give away It was unconditional Love I was looking at the tree of Life That has taken root inside my being It was not its gigantic stature That brightened my life It was its petals of Light That gave me hope It was its beautiful image That flowed through my being Love is the most magnificent state of being Totally undressed of fear and selfishness Love is the seed that I planted many years ago ©