Knowing (a poem by Jay Michaelson)

[xenophrenic]

let me commence
the knowing
of knowing
the peeling back
of the garments
the gentlest undressing
of this

let me arouse
the quality
of being
and fall into embrace
the immersion
into the knowing
of knowing itself

like swimming
in a warmth
that has every synonym
and none
of discovering
one is water
melting into a pond

like disappearing
in the sweetest dissolution
in the consummation
that is
now
like a delightful surrender
to yourself
only to discover
it isn't yours

it is only knowing
it is only is

the thinnest meridian of an instant
this most transparent love

an arena
of sky
with everything within it

we have so few words
for kisses
so few concepts
for embrace
for surrounding
for dissolving into
for the
simultaneous
merging
and emerging
or for the yearning, the coming to know
the song
the holy playfulness
of being itself
the secret seduction
of seducing itself

we have so few words
and every one of them
points in the wrong direction
so, beloved,
let me put an end to language
let me commence
this undressing
of reality
this unwording
of simplicity

let me know
the nakedness of experience

coming near

nearer

that is none other
than

-Jay Michaelson, excerpt from Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism
(2009, Shambhala Publications)