True Self Verses Ego False Self
by Charles Munn
Title
True Self Verses Ego False Self
Artist
Charles Munn
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
Description
This print is limited and will be deleted after 8 more editions.
Betsy is one of the characters in my novel, PARADISE NOW. I had her write this poem as a farewell to Milton, who is the leading character. But since Betsy is supposedly a published poet, I feared my little effort might lessen her believability and cowardly didn't include it.
That said, after years of polishing, I now feel that, however poorly it may be written, my poem expresses exactly what I, via Betsy, intended PARADISE NOW., to say.
We met on earth
In moments stolen
From tomorrow.
You cast a tender notion
Toward my palette,
As an astronaut might
Gaze upon a sailing ship.
Yet when you pictured
Soaring I lost True Self,
And ego raged,
"Of course I have done it!,"
As innocence fell
I felt my innards lift
And tumble through
Timeless circles,
While the moment
Danced into the now.
The perceived you melted
Soft around your edges,
You smiled your secrets,
And a knowing,
Then vanished into
The heavens
I tried to follow
And fell to earth.
Yet, I have soared before!
I haven't forgotten how!
The difference is,
I can spend but moments
As energy,
And you chose to
Spend but moments
As form.
Would that I could paint you,
But how to paint pure light
With illusions of earth mud,
On the maybes of earth rag?
The stars may be our father
Yet Gaia is our mother,
And she is still my palette.
I can't soar too high or too long
Before she calls me home.
Your pallet is
The singularity
Of creation,
Painting wholeness
With your fearless
Innocence,
Like a brilliant comet
Flashing through our lives.
When will you dance
Through me again,
Singing of notions
Ego but fleetingly sees?
I soar as high as
Mother will allow,
Seeking, seeking..
Ever seeking
To spin with you
In oneness,
Which can only
Be forever me,
Whenever TrueSelf
Make's
It be.
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January 3rd, 2015
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