Pivotal

Tony DeLorger © 2016

The pivotal point must,
and always will be, perspective,
from where we see and know each place 
and manner in which truth abides,
before we twist it into delusion, 
before we color it with our expectations,
our predilections and wants.

Each one of us, a culmination 
of our beliefs, our sentient comfort,
expressed in terms of delusion,
to placate the unwanted, 
the hurt of imperfection, 
granted us all in our state of humanity;
the trick is to transcend our nature.

We must let go all the angst,
the expectations 
and deluded beliefs in suffering, 
for if it weren't for our perceived struggle,
struggle would not be,
just a chosen path in contiguous undulation,
learning always at the end, regardless.

Perception guides us through pain, 
misery and joy, each moment tagged,
and believed in experience,
yet without belief, what would we judge:
catastrophe, indifference, deepest love, ecstasy,
the choices ours alone,
therefore what we experience ours to alter.

With two hands open, let go,
with all being, in the knowledge
that what we allow ensues, 
what we see is not judged, 
and what we believe is not finite but in flux,
as is the very life we are, 
perspective the helm of our direction.