part four:
retention masks it all
As the retentive mind matures,
there are these sidebars
of discovery to be realized;
when has “problematic”
as a mind style
become a self-sting operation,
when has meaning
as a mind sense
become a vanity,
and when has understanding
been realized
as a self-amnesty
that can mask it all
since neither method
or task or result is suspect
or open to the scrutiny
of “upon further review”.
It is a tight package
in the process of being
packed tightly to the yawn
of daily applause.
The outer world-speak
affirms it so.
It is an exile full of false intimacies
as retentive minds speak
and are spoken to in return.
A qualified aggregate
of lip services
as enablers and providers
performed before our eyes.
The retentive mind
has a professional status
by design.
Call it chemistry or conditioning,
or eventually call it a dis-ease.
It is a mis-use,
an over-proportion,
an out-of-scale,
a slight of mind
yet out of sight except by use.
Oh when did constant diligence
become a crime?
And when did exactness
become a method of extreme?
So when did re-introduction
to almost anything
become an act
and then so much obscene?
When?
When by convention
and then incessancy
has mental retention
been overly promoted
and positively decreed.
When, in the course
of culture and circumstance,
has a retentive mind anointed
a moment sacred,
when in the presence
of self and spirit
does a retentive mind
not give way,
and when in the consciousness
of they, as human beings
did their retentive mind give back?
Give back,
so to speak,
but not as retort,
or reply, or response.
Give back as radiance,
an unceasing radiance
that is given
from within and beyond.
Beyond what is sensed,
surmised, summarized,
or self-consciously controlled.
That it would be more
of a “retention of awe”
as a backdrop
for both given and received.
A “retention of be”
without excess
of surface or linear needs,
a retention
as if mind were the ease
of gift,
of chalice,
and of the oneness
from afar.
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