Sixty-Four

do my Indulgences in
coconut chocolate & caramel
debauchery
negate my chances for
Englightenment &
union with God?

[a question we all wonder from time to time, no doubt
i'll just bare it in the open for those who don't wish to
admit so with their mouths
]
could
it be the fact that
slipping into watermelon ways &
masala-ed salty french fries
never felt so innate? we
slide right into these
cushioned seats, never once
wondering
how we got here. gone! are the
meditations of the morning
the rains falling sensually on the
gray rock slabs, caressing the
bloomed and unbloomed flowers, the buds
and leaves and pine needles strewn, all alike,
a whirlwind mess of nature.

FORGIVE, FORGIVE, he commands
gently, forgive them them and them, ASK
forgiveness from
them them and them, and REJOICE
in your embrace, warm and dissolving
into a nothingness only felt
by your numbing hot fiery feet
lotus-positioned into
the very air you
in and ex
hale