Annihilation

A bustling metropolis of life,
signs and lights everywhere,
desires and temptations
taunting you to lose focus.
To stay asleep,
like worms eating away at your mind,
slowly numbing you,
through the pains of surrendering,
to the desires of others stuck
in the web of lies.
Who you are and what you have is not enough,
the whispers of reinforcement are subtle and vast.
So I beg of you, consume.
Until you can see that you are the one being consumed.
Empty yourself to the emptiness of this physical world.
Purge until there is nothing left.
Nothing other than the clean slate of surrender,
a surrender of a different calling,
a surrender to the quiet place
that lies waiting inside you
for your inevitable return.
Welcome home my dear.
Welcome Home my love.
Remember what it was like to be happy,
to just be alive,
to love yourself for who you are.
In that quiet place, the city lights fade.
The lights that hold us back from seeing
the true beauty of the stars,
and the magnificent vast
open sky of our existence.
The heavens become visible in their entirety.
Once the reflections of the metropolis
lose their luster,
and we walk out into the country,
just be.
See it all clearly,
and explore the final frontier.
Get to know yourself,
maybe for the first time,
find the love that was
concealed and perverted,
and allow it to manifest,
take you into the unknown.
Let yourself become love,
and then it spreads through
communion with ease,
it travels through your fingertips
into everything you touch.
Allow yourself to shine the light of spirit,
that is irresistible and impossible to deny.
Be together in love with the beloved all around you.
They will join when ready.
Keep dancing your dance.
The universe beats in your heart. - Bryan Tramontana Photo by Gregory Colbert