Look Deeper

 Look Deeper

When awash with burning acid reflux,
I question what caused this awful influx,
With my voice soaked with hoarseness,
From harsh regurgitative coarseness.

The stomach valve seems broken,
The feeble floodgates feel open.
Acid leaks with every tense bite,
Every swallow brings frozen fright.

A lifestyle steeped in stress
Got me into this tangled mess,
Now it may be too late,
To heal and not medicate.

I fret over medications side effects,
Causing further bodily defects.
Is there still hope to naturally heal,
Practising caution with every meal?

I fear the anxiety over digestive distress,
Triggered by hardened habits I must confess,
Can my awareness just withdraw and let go,
And move into a place of spiritual flow?

Not the fleshy order of physical life,
So easily nicked with a worldly knife,
But the state where there is no harm
Where I’m safe in blissful embalm

When I am no one, no body, no where,
Just shimmering energy with no care,
arousing awareness to my eternal reality,
accepting the truth of physical mortality.

Can I reach within, breathing in still silence,
Cutting through forests of inner violence?
And all that I assumed I was but was not,
May thee cleanse and release wounds that rot.

But with thee how can I be united,
When my view here is so blighted?
Rescue me from this bad dream,
Shelter me in love supreme

So, no matter what this stomach decides,
Or whether any physical health slides,
Connecting with true energy in its purest state,
I strive to reach beyond the dense body’s gate.

I hope to discover intrinsic serenity,
Pulsing with divine euphoric energy.
Salvaging me in a blissful cosmic surge,
Engulfing me inviting to quietly merge.

~ Deborah Sharma

Explanation:

These are the times I strive to look beyond any debilitating physical condition and take comfort in another level of existence, the eternal true reality.