Soul Traveler

I have spent most of my life traveling

To churches, traditions, temples, sacred places

Looking across oceans, forests, skies and faces

Reading mystics, healers, poets, teachers

Yoga, meditation, prayer

Looking for connection

Trying to make it real

And keeping myself just separate enough

To keep playing this game

Noticing similarities that run through this world

Our human experience

and the Anthropology of Religion

Just to find that

All roads lead to Rome, as they say

This thing we seek cannot be created or achieved

Layers within layers

It can only be revealed

It’s as plain, simple and ordinary as our Existence

As profound as the mystery of our Illusion

The fabric of the Universe

A real experience

Emerges in simplicity

Saying yes to what you are

What remains

When experience arises and falls away

The revelation of

The Love that's always with us

The Life that's always with us

The Light that’s always with us

And also is us

Levels and layers of experience

Hiding in plain sight

We are what we seek

The Peace that’s always with us

The Awareness that’s always with us

The Luxury that’s always with us

Magnificence that’s always with us

The possibility of being all we are

I am not willing to make it up

Fabricated experiences of the Divine

Are almost as disappointing

As nothing at all

This sacred conversation

Goes on forever

Between I am and I AM

The Love that’s always with us

This is

Real Life

And now mediocrity

Feels unbearable