Simple Poem

Convocation 5

We’re just some energy
that got the gift
of self-
awareness and then squandered
it on games
we play.
Creating tragedies
while making mazes
of
associations, we
forget we’re simply
mindful
energy. Mistaking
spheres of plans
we’ve made
for worlds we are, we trade
awareness for
self-conscious-
ness. While living dreams
we think we have
to die.
A lie!

~Son Rivers 2007