Dance of The Dyad

To dance with you lying down

Surrendering only to the now

No answers given to no questions asked

Unattached to the future or to the past

Or to love or need or hope or hate

Just your naked embrace

Dreamer of the dream, awake

In water and in air we breathe

A fleeting ecstasy

This is the dance of the dyad

Swirling cosmic yin yang

At the heart of everything

You and me 

Adam and Eve

And Lilith, too, tango

In the ebb and in the flow

Between attraction and repulsion

Falls the echo

To remember is to forget

This is the dance of opposites

If anyone in whatever society

Wearing whatever naked mask

God or goddess

Man or woman

Dreamer of the dream

Undertakes the perilous journey

Of awakening...

Across the first threshold

Into the land of trials

Through dark forests

Over sacred mountains 

And fallen bones of shamans

The most difficult stages

Of the adventure begin

When the depths of the underworld open

In the vocabulary of the moralists

It is a hell no less marvelous

Than the wild siberian landscape

Reflected through the prism 

Of Dostoevsky's tears

In the vocabulary of the mystics

It is the second stage of The Way

That of purification and surrender

Senses cleansed of compulsion

Until attention falls upon 

The neglected incompletions 

I still think of you everyday

Wrote Adam yesterday

Everything changes

Nothing stays the same

Everything is nothing with a twist

In my heart some things will always exist

Us... on the deck, in the kitchen, the bed

The kisses, the late night vinyl music lessons

And the wind... the wind carrying 

The rootless ones to and fro

Letting you go

Letting us go

I trust you know

I missed you

You must have felt it

Unknowingly at times

Like a preconscious telepathy

Riding on that wind 

As it circled from the ocean

Around the mountain 

And back again

Adam of the day replied

Put aside your pride

Your virtue, your beauty, your life

Bow surrender or submit 

To the absolutely intolerable myth

To be alive is to die

Now the ordeal is deepening

To the original departure

From the infantile dreaming

One by one, resistances are broken

Dragons must be won (over)

Again and again and again

Until then

There will be a multitude 

Of preliminary failures

To prepare you for the victories

Unretainable ecstasies 

Momentary glimpses

Of humility and illumination (always in that order)

At the uttermost edge of the earth

The Occidental End

In the tabernacle of the temple

Or the crooked lanes 

Of the labyrinthine mind

Or within the darkness 

Of the deepest chamber of the heart

To contemplate the illusion of opposites

With equal equanimity 

While beholding the simultaneous unfolding duality

Inherent in all of reality

Purged of resentment and sentimentality

The mind is opened to your inscrutable presence

To dance with you lying down

Surrendering only to the now

No answers given to no questions asked

Unattached to the future or to the past

Or to love or need or hope or hate

Just your naked embrace

Dreamer of the dream awakes

In water and in air we breathe

A fleeting ecstasy

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