Could you ever point out?

Poetry : 03-04-2022

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The picture and the Truth.

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Could you ever point-out, 

Which picture of your past, 

Is your authentic past, 

That you really lived out! 

Could you ever point-out, 

Which picture of your future,

Is your authentic future,

That you are really going to live on! 

Isn't the past in your memory,

A fragment only of your memory,

Isn't the future in your imagination,

That might probably happen to you!

Isn't this whole thing really ridiculous,

That you take the past for granted, 

Isn't this whole thing really ridiculous,

That you treat the future as if true!

Isn't this your own wishful thinking!

That this happened in the past,

That this is happening presently now, 

That this might  happen in the future!

Though you really don't know the past, 

Though you really don't know the present, 

Though you don't know the future,

Yet you think that they are all real!

Isn't this a stupendous stupid idea only, 

That you forget in the very next moment,

Whatever has / had happened, in the past,

Whatever is happening at this moment,  

Whatever might happen, in the next one!

Yet, wrapped up in the fabric of Time, 

You ignore the very real this now! 

Which never comes, nor goes away, 

Which never was, nor will be, but is only!

This elusive time, that abides ever so, 

This delusive time, that dupes you on, 

Are so mixed-up in you perception,

That you miss the Real, Timeless now!

Could you ever come to realize, 

Could you ever point out to it! 

Could you ever live in and as,

This one, the Reality,  -that you are!

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