"The Great Unveiling"

The Great Unveiling
   is not spiritual,
   though spirituality is ever-present. 

The Great Unveiling
   is not rapturous, 
   though rapture is never far away. 

The Great Unveiling
   is not puzzling, 
   though it appears as a puzzle. 

The Great Unveiling
   is not explainable, 
   though explanation is not needed.

The Great Unveiling
   is not cathartic, 
   though catharsis is inevitable. 

The Great Unveiling
   is not sweet,
   though its fruits are sweet. 

Rather, 
   it is the rigorous revealing of
   Your Story. 

Told to you by strangers 
   that are, in fact, 
   your neighbors — 
   a veritable team of surgeons, 
   masquerading as assassins.

Whose distortions reveal a conflation of
   Fact and Fiction — 
      self-denial dressed as service, 
      self-sabotage disguised as survival,
      self-aggrandizement appearing as truth. 

Not the stuff of incense burning
   or carefully prescribed meditation . . .  
                                             

For in the end, 
   it is simply 
   smelling
   a Rose. 

 

dedicated to Master Healer Laura Cirolia

August 2018

 

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