When Illness Prevails

When Illness Prevails

When illness prevails
One must lower one’s sails
Maybe throw out a sea anchor
or tie up at a berth

And as one is forced into a rest state
and lets go of the calendar date
there may be some discomfort
yet peace in the process

When illness happens rarely
to contrast sometimes unfairly
to a state of action and thriving
it may fuel the reviving

What causes our illness
our fevers or chilledness
may remain a mystery
or may go down in history

We may recognize the source of
an imbalance then the course of
a spin out of control –
how away we did roll

The peace and the quiet
allows all to settle
we try it
and balance is restored
and the lesson not ignored

One returns then perhaps cautiously
to an existence of generosity
now reminded the value of
precious time, rest and love


gagi      12/26/13

A Mother’s Prayer

A Mother’s Prayer

A prayer for you
A prayer for our child
Carried within
Soon to be born to the wild

No longer contained
A world to explore
An innocent being
Full of wisdom and more

The Love that you bring
to this world at this time
has the ability to dissolve
all the strife and the crime

Our prayer for you
as you enter our world
is that Peace also births
like a fetus uncurled

And may Love and may Peace
mature over time
growing with you
as you crawl and then climb

And when you can stand
alone and with strength
may Love and may Peace
reach the width and the length

of not only this world
but every dimension and star
For Peace and Love to contain you
it must reach infinitely far


gagi     12/24/13

Unknown

Unknown

you have arrived
there is such stillness and quiet
that even an echo would evaporate
be swallowed
before it could reach your ears

there is no urgency
no need to question
no wanting
no desire to express oneself

you asked to come here
to simply observe
pure curiosity
that was all

the experiential seeker
on a quest to the unknown
and now upon arriving
you experience nothingness

no light
no colour
no sound
no temperature
no movement
no sense of smell or taste

this awareness just is
it is not a check list to explore
you have become part of the emptiness
ahh… so still and quiet
blissful peace
pure nothingness

there is nothing to do
you are being breathed
your heart is beating for you
there is no effort required
simple beingness

a gentle contentment
a gestational peace
nothing to disturb it
nothing to release

the camphor of emptiness
the love of the naught
a simple beginning
to all that was sought

a stirring within comes
an awakening state
a new seeking is birthing
a new way to equate

all senses are alert now
you are ready to leave
wanting to activate
what you did receive

you return to your Earth world
and yet it has changed
you see it so differently
as if all’s rearranged

all life has expanded
all is beauty and bliss
how could you have not seen
all the wonder of this?

all you can do now
is appreciate and adore
the existence of everything
as it impacts your core

this dance how it beckons
you join in and become
a part of the multitudes
and the song that is sung

the credence is happening
the waltz and the skip
the volume is deafening
the senses eclipse

an awareness of everything
has replaced that of empty
all senses are joyously
responding to plenty

the newness of being
in the fullness of now
the total embodiment
of creation’s know how

your expression of gratitude
now knowing what is
is a response from being saturated
with the glory of love


gagi     12/09/13