Today, we have Gary Tonge Latimer who comes to us from Great Britain.

He is a painter and poet, and can be found here:

http://www.ifreelance.com/pro/34726

as well as here:

http://allpoetry.com/Thoughts-of-Soloman



 

So You Think You Are Known by Your Self?

BE A STRANGER TO YOURSELF.

So

you think

'you' know your own 'self'?

Then you think 'you' know what Self is.

When you take it for granted, your 'me' is owner and keeper?

As if you, as your 'you', are your own independent preserver!

You think, 

and you stand, 

as if supporting your 'self',

yourself!

While not even remembering to breathe in your 'tent'!

Do 'you' keep your heart beating

while your nature is completing

its Truth

which you didn't invent? 

There are 'Hands' that waft over oceans

across worlds we've not known,

in which your dependence is held like a mote.

You are what you've always been,

though you don't remember, 

before even the thought of 'you' 'spoke'!

In that mind which would have tailored independent existence,

when cut from no such cloth beyond the Universe!

Know it isn't alone

when facing the danger.

When you've learnt to have 'Vision',

you'll see yourself as a stranger.

A

Beauty

beyond anything

you possibly could imagine;

your psyche released into far beyond

anything your stubborn mind

could possibly grasp.

Learn to become

A stranger to

yourself

unless

you

are

an

ass.

Check him out.