Left coat pocket

Left coat pocket                                                                                               
 
Beyond imagination and conception
(goes the prayer) – trying to apprehend God
 
with the mind apparently like
a thirsty man requesting water
 
and then pouring it into his left coat pocket.
To know Him within, the mind must be checked
 
so the long-cloaked heart might bloom –
hear, feel, taste God’s presence secured
 
deeply within its cage of flesh. 
Then will come to us (Meher has promised)
 
an authentic, continuous way of existence,
as rich as it is fearless, as gleeful as it is transient,
 
the mind’s dominance broken,
the heart illumined, shattering
 
our long-held, ancient, accepted view
of God, the world and ourselves.
 
O child of God, Meher said suffering’s cause
is the nascent apparatus of human perception.