AWARENESS

Life an individual experience for us to create, lack of awareness, responsible for the mess we make.
For the observer, the I, has taken back seat, we unaware of the driver we keep.
Consumed only by the thoughts in our head, a restlessness that causes dread.
Death a reminder of our limited time, yet still we remain a slave to the mind.

For what is perceived through the five senses, is data we gained from our learning environment.
This is not an intellectual knowing, but rather a gathering of all we’ve been shown.
Perception is vital its ours to explore, attention to the senses paves the way for us all.
Convinced we are, that death will pass by, to someone else it can happen; but we, endless time.

It’s time to learn from the old, generations of hurt that we hold.
Mistakes that happened echoed through time, it’s up to us to change this rhyme.
We all perceive through that which we learnt, now carry with us resentment, and hurt.
Perhaps now we could use experienced wisdom, create new history pages to read from.

To learn from our mistakes is good in theory, but to continue to fall is repetitive and dreary.
For life far too brief to complain, before to long in your grave you will lay.
Suffering abound in all people, trapped in memories and anticipating what could be.
Our memories are vivid they make us human, but when tied to them we live an illusion.

Within this illusion we numb the brain, we take the prescriptions, use alcohol for pain.
We breathe in the smoke to hide in the cloud, rather then lift the veil on ourselves.
But can we see that we are suffering our intelligence, that we have turned against our very selves?
This creates the tension, anxiety, and stress, and before we know it, we are clinically depressed.

You are the creator of your human experience, but instead we choose to live in ignorance.
Life is happening all within; it is simply how it’s always been.
Outside events cannot be controlled, but what transpires within us is ours to mould.
To find liberation one must first see the hold, we live as a slave to the ways of the world.

We allow our feelings to be easily impressed, we are pulled, manipulated, shown lack of respect.
By simple awareness of our creation, we will see, we are our own salvation.
For life we are quickly to blame when things do not go as we had planned.
Anger arises and takes its hold and again we are left hurt and cold.

To give someone else the privilege to decide, how we are to feel any moment in time.
Wasted energy, wasted time, this is the making of an unaware life.
We seem to think that we are forever, we live in our heads and this moment not treasure.
Time flies by without our notice, have only our reflection to remind us.

Time to wake up it is our responsibility, take ownership and accountability.
We hold the power us alone, no need to look far from home.
Instead of looking up try looking in, for here you will find the world within.