A Breath On The Wind

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A Breath On The Wind
For Manny

I saw you crying,
standing alone in the cold sleet and snow,
because I was no more.
It was so cold, your tears, they froze before they
hit the ground.
I could feel your loneliness.
You knew I would never again come around,
never to hear the sound 
of a gentle word,
never to share a smile.
And I wondered 
if you would ever smile again.
In a breath on the wind
does a life begin and end.
Hold on to the memory 
that made me special in your heart.
Let not the door to emptiness 
be opened, too long, to your life.
To have been a part of your life
gave my life great joy.

Maharishi Déjà Vu

Meditation Level Déjà Vu
Odyssey The Gypsy
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One Tear in the Sun

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One Tear in the Sun

Out of my eye dripped
one tear in the sun
blown dry on my skin
by the wind.

'To be wrong in one lifetime
about so many things.
From emotions deep within me 
this one tear was born.

One moment, 
one tear, 
yet this tear contained a lifetime.

This tear was running
down my face 
before the sun and the moon
at the same time.

In a single moment in time
the day became the night.  
I could see in this tear
through the sunlight
what my life should have been.

The wind is a voice
I long to hear again.
One tear left me empty inside, 
in one moment, 
just one tear in the sun.

Maharishi Déjà Vu

Meditation Level Déjà Vu
Odyssey The Gypsy
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A Part Of You

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A Part Of You

I saw the light,
shining in your eyes.
As you turned to look at me,
there was a flash that went 
through my life.
It's impressed 
upon
my 
memory.
It was as if, 
in that moment,
God had passed 
between us.
In the mirror
of your gaze 
there was an echo 
through my soul.
In the light, 
gleaming from the spirit 
within you, I could
see myself.
It was like someone
lit a candle 
in front of me.
It burns within my heart.
The light I saw is 
a part of me.

Maharishi Déjà Vu

Meditation Level Déjà Vu
Odyssey The Gypsy
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City Of Reprieve

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City Of Reprieve

City of life, city of death,
a city of reprieve between them.
City of life, the city of Penn,
a reprieve from death in the city of Jefferson.
A gift a prophetic vision in time,
darkness focused into a narrow beam,
dilating the black retinas of my eyes,
a window of day with the night seeping in.

I stop to sit in the twilight,
in the old colonial downtown opened-air mall.
A secret place that these two cities share.
I am frozen in a moment of time,
my mind is split like an atom,
alive in two separate places,
in two separate times of my life
at the same time,
beyond Déjà Vu.
The same bench, the same season,
a summer day in the middle of winter.
Siamese twins
their cobblestone and bricked streets,
the heart of two cities.
Half my life has passed, yet in this moment
I am sure I never left, though many years have passed.
I know without a doubt you are out there, too, waiting.
In the city of reprieve you are there,
so many times we have passed, unknowingly,
the city we share in our hearts
in the secret emotional longing of our minds.
I am sure we do the same things,
walking into the Asian furniture shops,
stopping for a mocha or a cappuccino, compellingly.
Soul mates, my secret sister twin, unnoticed
by the multitudes,
a light of kindness, wisdom, and sensuality,
aloof amidst those who cannot perceive
the karma of our distant waiting love.
love of reprieve, awaiting,
touching our hearts, simultaneously,
breaking the reason of time, liberatingly.
A flood overwhelming our exile of obscurity, unnoticed,
in a massive ocean of self-centered society.
We have not seen the city of death.
The city of reprieve we share,
the vision of your life lives on in me,
my sweet angel,
we will one day meet there.

Maharishi Déjà Vu

Meditation Level Déjà Vu
Odyssey The Gypsy
China The Odyssey

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To Know My Peace

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To Know My Peace
For Elyse & Lena

I heard a voice
it was whispering, gently,
rolling on the wind.
The voice said, "peace."
It spoke into my life,
into my soul.
In the word that I heard
there was a peace,
unlike any peace I've ever known.
And all of the matters
of which I had become
so intensely consumed,
somehow became transformed.
In this peace, 
I saw my life in a new light.
To know this peace,
to have this peace,
to be at peace with
and within myself,
this was planted like a seed,
as a vision sown within me.
"It is where you need to be,"
the voice said to me,
"to know my peace.
Do you know my peace? 
My peace I leave you."

Maharishi Déjà Vu

Mantra Level Déjà Vu 
Odyssey The Gypsy
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Dance With Me

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Dance With Me
Inspired by Aruba, by the Rippingtons

Take a little break from the business of living.
Have a little escape from reality.
Get yourself a vacation from
that serious downer you've been embracing,
a little break out, a little time out, 
a little stole away or steal away,
a momentary imagination in your mind fantasy.

Before you freak out, you'd better break out in a little
joyful singing, some spontaneous dancing,
a little rumba, in the middle of your melancholy.
Dancing, spinning, twirling around, 
laughing, floating, feeling free
feet moving in step, your arms swinging in 
time to a joyful sound. 
a momentary excursion in your life reality.

Don't worry that they might see you
dancing all alone, when they look into 
your windows from their solitary sensible home. 
For your spirit is meant for soaring, 
and your emotions long for glee,
A momentary un-sedentary in your desiring ecstasy.

Let go of who you ought to be.
Break into a little Aruba,
step out into a little
passionate dancing deliriously.
Take yourself to my little place of joy.
When you dance alone you dance with me.
A momentary déjà vu in your transpiring eternity.

Maharishi Déjà Vu

Mantra Level Déjà Vu 
Odyssey The Gypsy
China The Odyssey

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Free Fall

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Free Fall

For Ulysses
Inspired by Paul Taylor's music; "Free Fall".

Never far from our sorrow and pains,
The tears of anguish; Siamese Twins with tears of joy.
A thin veil of indifference and sanity protects our joy 
from life's sobering realities.
A life leads through many sorrows.
Living it reveals many joys,
So easily overwhelmed emotionally
As we reach out to grasp those moments of peace;
Blissful and tranquil, 
Touching the dream,
Planting the memory deep inside the soul;
A seed of light,
A glimpse of hope,
A place of peace,
A free fall,
Unbound by cares & responsibilities.
To touch these times of joy,
These are the treasures of a life.
They provide us a foundation to stand on to live a life.
These blissful memories, they give us strength & sanctuary
In a life that will consume us,
Emancipating the bonds of our responsibility to living,
Setting us free.

Maharishi Déjà Vu

Mantra Level Déjà Vu 
Odyssey The Gypsy
China The Odyssey

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True Virtue Is Hitting The Mark

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True Virtue Is Hitting The Mark

When your reasons for doing disappear, 
take some action, 
aim at whatever will produce the greatest change 
and the most situational and financial security, 
Thinking and planning are essential, 
yet they must stay in line
in great proportion to carrying them out. 
There can be no peace in a life
that falls short of positive action.

The enemy is obvious, 
anyone who supports surrender
or runs from conflict 
because fighting for stability and freedom 
is more painful than running
and hiding in yourself
and leaving things up to chance,
hoping that by random chance
there will be contentment and peace
in avoiding challenge 
and fighting for what is worth having
and holding on to.

If we do not nail down
the agonies of the enemy, 
or the things inside of ourselves
that do battle against us, 
we will inevitably end up a victim 
of their persecution 
and self-imposed imprisonment. 

Victory lies in taking action. 
Victory is a motivational process. 
Victory belongs to those who persist
and proceed under the worst of conditions.
Victory belongs to those who believe
in staying with the battle
and not surrendering
for the people they love, 
even after they are gone.

In memory of those that started the journey
and the dream with us in our lives, 
we must carry on with our actions
until there is no breath left in our bodies.

For without victory there is always in time
great torment and suffering, 
torment and suffering beyond the dreams
and agonies the human mind can conceive
in its advocating of difficult times. 

If you fight for what you love
and believe in and fail
and are destroyed, 
there is honor in your death.

If you surrender,
there is but a short time of peace 
with its seed of hidden torment
until you are tortured
all the days of your life,
enslaved in bondage to suffering, 
escaping only in death without honor.

Do not hand over your honor. 
With every effort of your life
until the last instant in your life, 
never surrender.

Maharishi Déjà Vu

Mantra Level Déjà Vu 
Odyssey The Gypsy
China The Odyssey

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Siamese Twin

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Siamese Twin 

You live behind a face that you can never see
unless it is in a reflection reversed in time
And when you look into the mirror
only you can determine what you see

What do they see
The sea 
of infinite lives 
absorbed in their perception

Who am I to me
Am I to them
Do they see what I see

Is what I see a part of what we see
Who I am to me

I am to me
I am to be 
Free
Free from me

Set free to see what I love to see
Free inside of me
Free inside of free

The face behind the face is me
We are both free

Get that
    Free     

Maharishi Déjà Vu

Karma Level Déjà Vu 
Odyssey The Gypsy
China The Odyssey

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To Do Too

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To Do Too

For Lillian
(both of them)

Remembering what you like to do

To do

You have to do too if you want to 
Get things moving
To what you love to do
Love to do
You have to love to do

Do Too

‘talkin' through the darkness
‘talkin' through the light

Do to do

Soon my love
For you
For your dreams

The secret dreams that you long to share
Soon the dreams will be reality

You can’t punish yourself eternally 
To be part of no particular thing

Take the time to connect to something
Enjoy what you never new
Chill,

Do Chill

Take the time to impart yourself
To the finer things around you
Find one

Chill yes
Do Chill

Love to chill
When your're chillin’
When you Do

Do chill
Love to chill

Love
 Spoken in a new Language

Do
Love to Love

I don’t know everything but I know enough
The bullet and the toenail taught me so
The bullet never fired and the toenail was ripped off
Taught me respect and understanding

Think of it like finding a door to another you
One that you never knew
A you of you

Yes a you that is deeper and enlightened
Farther than you ever dared to dream
You of you

Clearly you can see you
If you look through you at you
Ability to see through you
Through the things that limit you to you

The inner you 
Mantra of you
In it you choose
Who is who of you

Choose you if you dare
Choose you

The unprejudiced you
Set free of self imposed mediocrity
Set free of self deception
Set free of self inflicted ignorance

Free to see

Free to be

Free
You in You

9-11-9
(2009)

Maharishi Déjà Vu

Karma Level Déjà Vu 
Odyssey The Gypsy
China The Odyssey

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Temet Nosee

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Temet Nosee

The secret
Is not getting other people
To think
What you want them to think

It is to get them to see 
Things that they did not know 
About themselves

The ability to see things in others
That is already a part of them 
That they are not aware of yet

When a person starts to see 
Outside of how they see 
Themselves
It sets them free

To see things that others don’t see

Of yourself

Not as others see you

But seeing yourself
As you wish to be seen

Know Thyself
It is really about seeing 
A better you

Love yourself

Maharishi Déjà Vu

Revelation Level Déjà Vu 
Odyssey The Gypsy
China The Odyssey

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Challenged By The Love Of Love

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Challenged By The Love Of Love

You Challenge You
If you do not confront your pain
It will confront you
To not confront your pain
I blasphemy
The pain is the enemy
Of all that is you
You of I Am

Bought and paid for
Purchased and freed
From the pain of everything
Pain is blasphemy
If the pain confronts you

You confront the pain
In everything you do
In everything you feel
In everything you up thinking
Every place you go
In everything you see

Confront your pain
And you will get set free
Free from everything you do
Free with everything you feel
Free in everything you think
Every place you go
Setting everything free

Say no to everything
As loud as the voice
Of the almighty
Reaching the infinite of everything
Emancipated
Running free

Kiss of the wind
Reaching every part of me
Touching my soul
My humanity
Kissed by the pace
That sets you free

Kiss it again
It will set you free
A kiss that never ends
A kiss that lasts forever
A kiss of the love
That is all
That is love

If a kiss could last forever
Would you take that kiss
You know you would
When it’s the kiss you long for
It is blasphemy
Not to express the love
Not to accept the love
That completes you
Confronting the love
In love.
It’s the love that sets you free
Challenged by the love
Of love

You confront the pain
In everything you do
In everything you feel
In everything you’re thinking
Every place you go
In everything you see

Confront your pain
And you will get set free
Free from everything you do
Free with everything you feel
Free in everything you think
Every place you go
Setting everyone free

Given by the love of love
Set free by the love of love
Apart of the love of love
Love
Running free

Maharishi Déjà Vu

Revelation Level Déjà Vu 
Odyssey The Gypsy
China The Odyssey

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The Lizard King

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The Lizard King

Eye of Eagle
Tongue of Snake
Heart dark as oil
Devouring all around
Thirsting for blood
Green blood
Money blood

Money blood
It takes its hold on you
Blood for Money
Deep inside of you
Sorting out who you are
Who you will be
A thirst to be 
The Lizard King

Maharishi Déjà Vu

Oracle Level Déjà Vu 
Odyssey The Gypsy
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