Dialogic Love
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Try listening to this as you read.
Dialogic Love
Without an ego,
How could something empathize
With a sentient?
Objects aren’t self-aware; they
Exist within a network.
We straddle the worlds.
Our soul must be objective.
We’ve a self-image.
Being mindful of
The moment, we can see it:
It’s in everything.
Regretting the past,
Or thinking of the future,
We name – paint – ourselves.
So part of us has
Pride, desires, and allows
For rational thought.
The other remains
Constant, creative, and sings
A passionate song.
The ego lets us
See us wearing someone’s skin,
Acknowledging you.
While the soul casts
Light on where you need to go.
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Thanks for the comment, Mentalist Acer. In this poem, I was trying to convey the positive attributes of the ego. It seems to me someone needs to be aware of themselves before they can be aware of others. And if you're not aware of others, how could care enough to love them? You'd lose the vocabulary of language and simply exist—if we were just souls.
Maybe that's what life is about... to understand how God is so complicated that he exists everywhere. Maybe we couldn't understand that part at the singularity (death).
You always get me thinking, M.A :)
Daniel,
Wonderful thoughts! It convinces me to think long sighted. One must think long sighted in order to fully understand this great poem. One could definitely think of positive attributes of ego, by reading this poem of yours. Some people think that, ego is always bad and there is no behoof of it. Pity to say, they are not adjudicating fairly and their one-sided thinking stays there. You’ve shared your thoughts nicely, which could change the narrow thinking of many.
I learned that, being self aware doesn’t mean being selfish, egoistic or proud; but discovering the inner soul, it enables you to give more of yourself to others. This poem of yours teaches me that, ego is not always bad. Ego is only bad, when we humans take it the other way. You know what I mean to express here. An example could be – on one hand, a true saint can always be proud of the ego he has for God Almighty and on the other hand, a true lover of God should not have ego about his nearness to God Almighty. Daniel, I enjoyed it very much and especially the last paragraph.
Hats off! =)
Surabhi,
Thanks for the kind words. You're too kind :)
Ego is us separating ourselves from God. We think; therefore, we are (as Descartes said). We distinguish that "I" am different from "you" or "God," when the objective reality is: We're all one. We're a fragmented portrait of God.
It goes together with my fascination for ying and yang. We need to go through hell (the divorce from God) to appreciate God from a distance. We’re the way that God appreciates Himself.
And, as you said, the ego makes it all come together, ironically enough. Self-identity is a dialogue.
Thanks,
Dan
The opportunity to relief is very important to egos. I see that literature has also caught your fancy. Great! What about a coda. Say more to be less, be more to have more, of the lessest thing and intangible ego.
Manum,
That relief can sometimes become a large part of idenity. It's me screaming, "Hey, I'm me and here's why," while you go into what defines you (to you).
Haha. I've got admit I had to look up the meaning to "coda." I tried to make the last tanka a sort of conclusion that restated the first tanka.
As for the rest of your comment, I'll have to think of those things more.
Thanks for the response,
Dan
Mentalist acer Level 6 Commenter 21 months ago
A leaky ego and an accepting soul....