Love Life

Love Life and not the shadow Stalking you below, Its blind obedience deceives, As histories do, Concealing its intent To govern your tomorrow. Study the clouds as they perform their sculptures, The subtle greys chiselling the pure marble And the light's pale ochre. Seek the jasmine nebulae And the rare orchid by a rocky shore Touch to possess the magic of hair and flesh. Nothing soothes more than a mutual caress. Smell lavender and meadowsweet, And the wild garlic Pause a while to taste the saline samphire. Listen to melodious stream, Its complex rivulets between the rocks Echoing a fugue or cello suite by Bach, So aptly named! Love life and not your shadow, Fill your senses with Immediate things, Not the false concepts of origins. Or the doctrine of sin.