Peace of Mind Ain't for Sale - A Poem

Peace of Mind Ain't For Sale

When life throws you lemons, and you just want to throw them back…

When the road splits in half, and demons leap out to attack…

When life pricks you, bleeds you, makes you tempted to cuss

When we’re too busy row-row-rowing-to-see life’s-but-a-dream-all-around-us…  

>And you’re feeling the squeeze…

In that dreamland we call reality there’s a temptation

To distract our self from life’s pain with medication

But if thousands of years of practice are any indication

The true alleviation for what ails us, is meditation    

>In lotus, if you please

Because the companies can’t bottle and sell soul rejuvenation!

So in desperation they push sedation on the population

To stop the contemplation that there’s a direct correlation between our agitation

from spiritual starvation that leads to a lack of liberation with no salvation  

>Possibly connected to all the new disease

Now I know there’s exceptions, just don’t let-em predominate 

Remember the goal, it’s for your soul-union I advocate...

So look around, you’ll see there’s no public indignation

People shrug and indulge their addictions with resignation

Big pharma media’s smoke and mirrors obfuscation

Ensures people will line up like sheep for slow-drip stimulation     

>Their reprise...

Is BRING DOWN YOUR HEART RATE

IMPROVE YOUR FLOW RATE

YOU’LL NEVER AGAIN GAIN WEIGHT

OPEN THE FLOODGATES     

>To your dis—ease

Causing us to say, “I got no time for self-realization

Don’t need to hear ‘bout karma and reincarnation

I reject meaningful conversation ‘bout sun salutation

Now let me go back to my inebriated hibernation    

>We’ve become whose devotees?

But… become the hero of your story and you’ll stay free through meditation

You’ll realize it’s nature’s most organic vaccination

Against life’s roughest and toughest tribulations  

And the only place you’ll hear this kind spiritual articulation   

>Is in rooms like these

But wait – society has other distractions to fill up our God hole

With things that steal the present moment and-I-think-you-know-exactly-what-I-mean - but our goal

Should be to look at ourselves with God’s eyes before we need real damage control

Nothing should divert us from hearing the voice of our soul       

>And that voice is saying please…

And even you Matrix escapees, spiritual devotees, spiritual sojourners who aren’t just sightseers

Can sometimes relapse and let in that insidious ego puppeteer

Let it distract us, extract us from our inner seer

And all that realization just… disappears     

>It gets better but, the challenge never ceases

So listen well, because it’s never too late

To get your real power back and set yourSelf straight

That’s Self with a capital S

Tap in often, you’ve got the access

No need to guess or get distressed

Just Keep practicing, don’t digress   

>And at the very least increase your peace

Meditate, don’t take their bait

Meditate, don’t play their game,

Your higher self will be your guide

Go inside, the truth won’t hide

Meditate and your life

Will be

Blessed.

>Peace.                                                              

                                                          

© Scott Ware, 2016 (to be featured in an upcoming DAYC publication)