I am Time
Time is unwinding
through its eternal hour
and life is heading always
toward the grave.
The sun is being born
and dying
every day
as the earth
rolls across the sky.
Toward the Origin
all creation flows,
though once upon a time,
the destiny of this world
was written with words.
History:
the dreadful deeds
of speaking animals
become fallen angels,
the confession of earthly prisoners,
their struggle
to be set free
from certainty,
from Fate.
The human being will fly
when with wings of light
it takes the leap into darkness,
dying into its depths.
There, at the still center of a eye-less world,
the soul catches wind of heaven
and begins to rise.
Through the wisdom of love
death is unmasked
as the bleeding heart of God.
In paradise, now twice,
the sun sets into night
revealing astral signs
of years far greater
than its height.
Here, I find my destiny,
who takes me for a fool.
She does not test me,
but trusts in my simplicity.
I judge not evil
the world that birthed me,
but good,
for my soul returns
to her same
secret womb
when my last breath
unbinds me
and in my body
only room remains.
The course of my earthly life
is guided ahead of time
by eyes divine and wiser
shouting silent words
from eternity
at my deaf reveries.
I live life
chasing the scents
of muses;
possessed by the songs
of sirens;
enamored with the endless tales
of Time.
These are the moods
of my soul’s relation
to the world’s.
Together, the world-soul,
you and I,
imagine eternity.
Time is a temple,
enter,
pray,
let its spirit
undo you.
Die.
Where have you gone?
Where had you come from?
Time tells its secrets to no one.
Time is one,
and though without a name,
time still speaks in me.
I am time.
You are time.
We are the world-soul,
a moving image
made eternally.
Hi Matthew,
Beautiful thoughts.
In Bhagavad-gita (11.32) the Blessed Lord Krishna says, “I am Time, destroyer of worlds, and I have come to engage all people.”
We are moments in Time, instants, or as they say ‘instantiations’ of Time. The apparent permanence of material things or personas is destroyed by time revealing their true nature as transitory or temporal. This dynamic living Reality (Krishna) in which we are finite participants is our true identity. It is not impersonal. It is deliberate and personal active engagement and being engaged by the Divine (Gottesdienst). This is the meaning.
Of course, this is given as instruction to the externally conditioned soul. Thus it is preliminary education that precedes deeper realization.
E. Caird described Hegel’s philosophical message as “Die to live.” One dies to life that is not lived in the service of the Divine to live in one that is.
This is my favorite part of your very nice mediation:
Here, I find my destiny,
who takes me for a fool.
She does not test me,
but trusts in my simplicity.
I judge not evil
…
but good,
This is the soul of a saint.