My Path Is Silence

I have listened to man preach Swallowing the sacred nectar And vomiting it in rejection It is the dejection of the spirit That ejected the word back out The spirit has to be harnessed In the emptiness of nothingness Then the light of God will find its mark Silence is not an absence of sound But it is the envelope that wraps us into emptiness Allowing the nectar of God to be tasted By the emptiness of our being It is this experience that gave me shudders I have gone back to the bowl of Silence countless times I have listened to Silence without tiring I waited for the state of nothingness with great patience I have been soaked in the waters of the spirit Not to be confused with the toxic waters of alcohol But it is the intoxication of Silence that allowed me to see To look beyond my everyday life with its bouts of joy and despair And be empty of the toxic substance of ego I submerged myself in humility and entered the lake of Hope It is here where I discovered the portal to the everlasting life Unconditional Love is not only a state of being It is the unfolded Truth displayed on the canvas of the heart It is the meaninglessness of life given meaning It is the field of emptiness illuminated It is the substance of being nourished and polished It is the only door to eternity Love is not a compulsive state of being Love is like a river flowing through the wilderness It paves its way without the use of force It opens gates of new chapters of life Allowing awareness to take root It unleashes the ecstasy of being Giving us the true taste of happiness ©Kenneth Maswabi