Pictures

Pictures

I have a number of friends whom

Have reached deeply enough into themselves

To have touched something of the great starfield

That lives deep in our souls

Although I'm sure that some of them

Have not yet realized that is what they've done

Many of them have good amounts of insight

Into Nature and Human nature

And it is always a pleasure to talk with them

About the paths we all wander in life

Two of my friends who see with much clarity

Have a couple of traits in common

Although I don't believe they've ever met one another

Both are American, born and raised in the American ways

Of the seventies and eighties

One of them has studied the martial arts for many years

While the other has studied yoga for a very long time

Their minds are both lithe with the thoughts of two cultures,

Their ideas swim in the oceans of two societies traditions

And this trait, I think, allows them

To both see from better vistas of view

Although it is possible to see with good clarity while depending

On the ideas of just a single culture

And knowing the thoughts of more than one society

Does not guarantee clarity of view,

As a general rule, it is easier to see life more clearly

When you can draw upon the great variety

Of human thought rather than depending solely upon

The notions of just one society

The more you teach yourself of the grand palette of colors

Humans have created for themselves

To depict the paths we each wander in life,

The more it tends to allow you to paint

A clearer picture of the world for yourself

Dewey Dirks