The Samurai Remembers

Not I”

A buzzing fly

In the orbit

Of sitting Samurai

“I”dentify the fly

“Not I…”

Opens his eyes

From meditational reprise

 

And then

Slash with his blade

Violence made

Unto “other”

Momentary silence,

And then

Another?

 

2 Flies

As Samurai

Again, closes eyes

“Not I”

Identifies

Opens eyes

With violence

2 flies die

 

Again

The human incarnation

Closes eyes

Quiet is sublime

And now seated

As buddha

Contemplation can…

Oh man

4 flies

He opens eyes

He slashes blade

4 deaths more made

Becomes afraid

“Not I”

 

Consciousness reminds

Warm attention kind

“I am not my mind”

In kind, 8 flies fly

In orbit of Samurai

“We are I.”

 

Their buzz observed

Vibration Heard

Consciousness not disturbed.

 

Suddenly,

A memory,

“All of we

Are god’s creations unfolding”

Tears not withhold

Heart soft, showing

A love so growing

A reminder of union

Yoking is one communion

All beings through time and space

Watching the race

And crawl

Of god’s creation is us all

 

A merging

Into one.

Samurai’s meditation done.

Opens eyes

To mourn the flies

“goodbye” as Samurai

Supplies soil

With carbon

Bodies of the flies

Down they lie

Their matter to supply

Another new unfolding