Seeking Within: Now

The pathetic hermetic

took a hallucinogenic

while meditating atop a hill one day.

When came buzzing by

was a curious fly

who just wanted to hear what he had to say.

The pathetic hermetic

not too copacetic

about the fly interrupting his day

asked, May I ask why?

Cuz you’re just a fly

who’d be better off if he just shoo’d away!

The curious fly

with a quiet reply

asked, How did he get this way?

The impatient man

who was not a fan

had these few words to say:

I live by hermetic principals

each of them quite simple though.

They’re a part of you and me.

We are all mind

each one of a kind

existing throughout all eternity.

As above, so below.

There are three states you know,

of you at different vibrations.

The physical, spiritual and mental state.

Chart your course, some call it fate, but

it's all part of your mental transmutation.

Everything flows

and everything goes.

Life is more simple than strange.

Like night shifts to day

cycles repeat this way;

a universal rhythm of change.

While opposites attract.

Genders a fact.

The two add up to one.

But when love turns to hate

realize it’s all the same state

just on different ends of the spectrum.

One final thing

as you measure the swing

of my hand through cause and effect.

With his hand raised high

the hermetic maimed the fly and said,

Interrupt me and it’s your wings I collect!

It happened right then,

the so called 'Master of Zen',

realizing his error too late.

For he now knew

he’ll be a fly too

in his next life to relive his own fate.

The pathetic hermetic

not too energetic

about what he was about to endure,

walked down from the hills

and then swallowed some pills,

dreaming of something more profound..I’m sure!

In a strange twist of fate

the hermetic entered the gates

of hell with only this lesson learned.

Just try and get by

without harming a fly

or else, you’ll surely get burned.