Cobalt Blue Azure.

On that hazy, lazy, sun-bleached day,

all those years ago. 

Standing alone, on that hilltop,
I heard in the distance,

the cry of seagulls,
scratching the eerie silence,

with their angry protests.

I never understood until now,

how hard it would be,
to hear that silence in me,

that I felt in Thee .

I never understood until now,

the strength of determination,
I would need,
to find my true self,

and live that truth.
But I was hooked.

As I stood alone,on that hilltop,

in that barren wilderness,
of blood-red sand,

littered with scrappy,

jade-green tufts of salt bush
and blackboy,
I was overwhelmed by the silence. 

Drowning in that ocean,
of cobalt -blue azure.
I was blissfully unaware,

of the frustration
and heavy-heartedness,
that would lay ahead.

I can see now,

that it was never about,

giving anything up,
or fighting anything, 

or overcoming anything.

This life is all about the open-eyed awareness,
of the oneness, 

that is my very essence.

With absolute pinpoint focus on Thee,
I could finally be free. 

From the worldliness,
that lies just below,

the lustrous sparkling charm,
of my desires and impulses.

I would need the concentration,

of a tightrope walker,
(with the balance bar of love and devotion)
to blindly and fearlessly,

straddle the wire that is Thee

and finaaly be free. 

In the beginning there was only me

but with new eyes I can see,

that I am Thee.
This truth will finally set me free. 

And so I pray, 

that the love that I am,

can be open and free,
open and free 

and lost,

to Thee...