A Dreamer's Meditation

This is a poem I started writing when I was about 24 years old, and have updated more recently. When I read it now I am still caught up in the beauty of its aspiration, yet I also recognise its naivety: because poetic intentions are nothing without the will and discipline to carry them through.

A Dreamer's Meditation
by Julian Lee Goldberg

Life is a gift...
To be embraced
And enjoyed.
Days and years that can be lived with purpose...

Pursuing the greatest good
For ourselves and for others.
Striving to know Truth
And to experience Oneness with the Divine.

A once lived opportunity
To make the most of the things that we have:
With Friendship, Love, Creation, Sensation
Truth and fulfilment.

One of the most powerful insights
Is that we can rise above through understanding.
We can break through our pain and suffering
To become joyful in eternity.

Understand how:
What is past is done.
What is now is real.
So embrace and make the most
And shape the future yet to come.

That to give means to together gain;
That less so often means more;
How little things can give great happiness;
How appreciation unlocks more.

Be considerate of others
In the things you say and do;
Think of them and gain as one;
Be giving, loving and true.

And when Nature's cruel hand strikes
With its destruction, blight and pain.
With positive action and strong willed mind
We can shape things for the better.

So I say: live life as best you can!
With good food, and music, and dancing!
But do what's right for you;
Live life with understanding.

So cultivate understanding
And rise towards being free!
See: The way things work;
The way that things are;
The way that things could be.

Some will choose a path,
To seek and know the truest divine.
To liberate themselves and others
Out from fear, to climb up high!

If this is the path for you,
Then I say listen to your heart inside.
Because your heart is your connection
To the spirit in which all reside.

See the One in all,
And know the All as one.
Embrace the truths of Nature;
The source that is above!

Look within and all around,
Touch on moments of divine bliss.
Pursue the experience of knowing Love
And the Oneness of All that is.

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