LOVE IS IMMORTALITY


I’ve come to know there are two MINDS
that live inside of me;
one can only know this world,
the other can be free.

The worldly MIND can never love,
thus does not understand,
when feelings ebb and flow inside
like waves upon the sand.

It finds no earthly reason why
a being lives or dies;
why feelings do not follow thought,
when Love is in my eyes.

The worldly MIND says all is well
no outer dangers near,
and yet the OTHER sounds alarms,
that ring inside my ear.

They both are there and both aware,
my BODY was their womb;
yet worldly MIND nust stay confined
within this mortal tomb.

The OTHER knows no boundaries
except in human life,
a SPIRIT MIND is not a man,
or boy or girl or wife.

Each time it joined a life on earth
it shared a BODY style,
for flesh is not identity
the form is just a trial.

MIND and flesh are vehicles
for SPIRIT use on earth;
the challenge each must meet in life
is giving love of worth.

Our feelings, Love and high ideals
are not a worldly trait;
fulfillment sought in worldly ways
insures a MORTAL fate.

My worldly MIND unfeeling thinks,
uncertain as to “why’s”;
the OTHER knows ‘thru me it loves
but if we fail … it dies!

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Rhey W. Hedges, April 21,1973

RHEY W. HEDGES

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