Willpower

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Willpower, I call on you
Be with me

As I go back down and inwards

As I swim to the depths of this dark river

As I greet death

Surrounded by onlooking baboons
Beneath rocks of defecation

May my last breathe fill my lungs with trust

Keep me warm

On the icy waters of isolation
As I make my way back

To the ocean of conscious actions

Smudge me clean of my fears

Connect me to that which I have forgotten

Teach me the language

To share my experience with this world

Allow me to remain awake in this vigil
Let me fall, not asleep,

But into unconditional love

Suppress nothing as I sink

Dissolve all that keeps me from serving myself
In the service of others

Find the fire within me
And feed it with responsibility

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by Chris Auret