Assess your potential to connect. We wake alone, but we are on the path of Attachment. Ask yourself; do you seek balanced, indestructible attachment, synchronous, not disharmonic relationship; a connection that is symbiotic, not exploitative. If the answer is Yes, you are on the path of Paradise.
How can we achieve these goals? First, we must understand and accept our Self, our Ego, with all its quirks and flaws, needs and yearnings, limits and possibilities. Then we must understand the Other; the Lover. We must attune ourselves to the structure of their yearning to begin to construct our duet, our dance. After that we must negotiate the rapids of relationship with each other and with the outside world. Danger! Excitement! Ecstasy! Despair…Compassion.
Union.
We are caterpillars, you and I, attempting to learn the language of butterflies. We are unprepossessing creatures, daily absorbed in infantile needs of eating and excreting, but we have a firm promise of a future in which we stretch our gorgeous wings.
Paradise
Without eyes
Ambitious goldfish float
Dream of skies
Where fins are wings
Lily pads are clouds
Swollen tight
as seed pearls; gullets
Safe forever from
vengeful squid or
Killer waves.
Who can say if in their time of death
Those dreams don’t live
Bursting skin;
Trailing comets,
Scattering scales like stars
Spilling the pond and soaring limitless
To be whales
To be gods
To be free?
Alysse Aallyn 