Spiritual teacher and author Georgi Y. Johnson reads the poem Here Am I – from the book I AM HERE – Opening the Windows of Life and Beauty. The poem is based on the trilogy of perception “I” – Consciousness, “AM – Awareness, “HERE – Emptiness.
Here am I – Take me
HERE
Between beginning and end an assembly
of blood, bone and flesh indifferent as dust,
alive mostly in spaces between rib cage
shield of love and lungs doing alchemy
with degrees of illusion tender muscle and strictest bone
longing to belong as each particle
soaring through mindless space surrenders
to the field and becomes an empty world.
Am
not all we feared not the love,
nor the terror of children forsaken in emptiness
not the great soul spreading peace through mortal borders
but this being here, observing itself observing
through ages of love and bliss and the incredible loss.
I
with sacred cynicism of words whisper now,
resting lonely on the wings of softness
melting a surrendered mind as wisdom
arises for no purpose but to affirm attendance in life.
And humanity will raise his aged head from the sphere
of beloved earth lost and breaking open in loneliness of being apart.
she will say:
Here am I. Take me.
