Arlene Corwin writes

 What You Think & What You Do Is You

To know, to really know by intuition what is true,

Rather than by intellect’s analysis, 

Which going so far by the book

Will never brook reality, big R:

The star.

There is in us seed of divinity,

But also personality and ignorance and folly

Which clog the way so constantly

As to obstruct each single day.

In theologic terms: Christian, Hindu, Taoist, Sufi

Shake hands on one thing categorically:

A unitive, intuitive discovery

Which sculpts life’s aim;

Truth, big T, its contemplation as an end,

Activity its means.

Belief in humans doesn’t work.

You only have to look.

We fight, we kill, we’re angry as we lurk in corners

Passing laws to dig for more

Deep oil, coal… searching from a parched ambition,

Marketing on boundless scales the superficial and addictive

While vindictive leaders staunchly march,

Their Janus faces smiling, starched.

Philosophic, scientific principles at odds -

Where, what, if there is a god.

To know, to really know the double-sides

Of all observed would serve the good.

If you (or Man) will spend the time,

Insides reaching for the prime,

The look inside its total aim,

Some good must come of it;

Not total good, but it’s a start.

The brain connected then to heart,

The body horse, synapses cart.

Abnegation (not negation) of the ego,

Trying out the test of virtue

Probably, no, certainly will help

Speed up this royal trip.

You bet there will be blips galore,

So try some more to reach the core

Of Truth within, for

What you think and what you do is you.