Our Next Reality
By: Michael K. Countryman

To find enlightenment,
is to release your fears,
fears, for your very survival in this world
of predator and prey.

If you could do it, release your fears,
and find your enlightenment.
You would enter into the next world.
But to your dismay, disappointment, and terror,
you would experience, for yourself,
that it too is a predator world.

I wonder, why?
Don't let them suck you dry.

Close your eyes and make the leap,
into our next evolutionary step.
Release your fears and find enlightenment,
that will lead you to our next reality.

But open your eyes quickly,
and be ready to run for your life;
because you may no longer be on top,
of the food chain.

Just as we are gods to those whom we have charge,
and control, our gods will be to us.

I have seen it already,
in those times of bliss,
without fear, for the moment.
Everything was saying,
"Come this way. You can trust me."

But I didn't know, at that time,
in that new world, who were the predators
and whom I could trust?

I trusted them, though.
I did, at first. I trusted them all,
and exposed, to them,
my tender underside,
giving them my love and waiting for their embrace.

But, instead, I felt the cold hard steel penetrating my flesh
and my spirit being pulled and sucked,
as a long funnel of energy, from my body.

I realized just in time that it was a predator.

I don't know how, but in some way,
unknown to me, I knew, instinctively.

It was a predator.

But what if, let us say,
it was my imagination and not a predator?

Having come from a predator world,
that was my reality, my creation.

For me, it was real.

So I ran.

I ran as fast as I could,
in fear, again.

Maybe it was because, a film
was covering my eyes and cotton
was in my ears that I was unable to fully
find consciousness.

I could not communicate.
That's it! Everything was screaming
and flying around me,
as I emerged into their world,
a new being.

There was a frenzy of activity,
but, I could not
understand them, so I ran.

"After emerging from their womb,
their prison, the newborn turtles scrambled
for the promised safety of the sea,
as the birds continued to pick them
one by one from the beach."

It's not only our next generation
that we are giving this mess to,
it is also being addressed to you and me
in our next world, our next reality,
that promised safety from this current
and frightening experience in life.

But it doesn't have to happen.

Weeding through illusions to find Reality.
Don't let them suck you dry,
the illusions.
See them for what they are,
enticements,
enticing you to deposit your energy
into their false reality.

They are everywhere.
Don't let them suck us dry.

True Reality and acceptance,
let them be your God,
unprejudiced by illusions.

We are one.
Honor our differences,
celebrate our uniqueness,
and remove the fear.

No creature is above any other,
in True Reality.

We cycle until we learn that.

We cycle until we learn that.

For how much longer and
how many more life-times
must we live in fear,
before we learn?

We will continue to be the prey,
until we are no longer,
the predator

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