Deliverance - Cerulean Poetry

There is much out there that can help us, but we need to engage with the world to find it. This engagement is also our weapon against false impressions. It helps us touch and dispel our illusions

Deliverance

You swallow the sun,
swallow my heart, too.

Let it glow like the molten iron—you contain.

Burn all its impurities,
grant me my desires.

I advanced the price in time and solitude.

You push up the sun,
push up my soul, too.

Let it grow like light is grown from the dark.

Swallow my sins,
Grant me clemency.

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Thoughts

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Giving my thoughts on this might disenchant the poem for some and steal the joy of discovering what it hides from the people who found it.

This is a rather funny poem—it is ironic. It hides in metaphors and humility the wish for something else to deal with our problems and our behavior—to deal with us. It's asking for salvation, not to help us to help ourselves or even others. It asks for a way to fulfill our desires without walking through our hearts and souls' dark and damp paths.

Another aspect that makes the poem funny is the misunderstanding of how things are. The earth is not moving the sun. It looks like this if you expect to be the center of everything or if you expect something to solve all your issues. You want it to be this way because you need it to be this way--but it is not.

If you now point your finger at religion or government and the people who believe in it, you are mistaken. It's also not the belief in nature or paganism that is the problem's core.

I usually start writing in my notebook with purple ink from my fountain pen..

This poem points to the passivity many of us maintain in our beliefs. "God helps those who help themselves" just means that help comes to those who engage; this engagement is the handle God, or any other power, can use to lift you up.

And this engagement is also our weapon against false impressions. It helps us touch and dispel our illusions about what can deliver peace.

There is much out there that can help us, but we need to engage with the world to find it.

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