Awakening

By Frank Bolaji Irawo

Becoming aware

Of the nature

Of reality

All is not as it seems

Prodded by Suffering

To look deeper still

Questioning all

Assumptions

About the nature

Of all things

Becoming aware

Of the one

Who is aware

Of all the things

We assume

Was the nature

Of all things

The thinking

The saying

The doing

Open to its glare

None will be spared

Illusions of self

Illusions of identity

Illusions of control

Illusions of separation

Awakening to the

One who is truly

Aware

Open to noticing

Whatever shows up

There

In radical acceptance

Picking no sides

Adding no opinions

Making no judgements

Being certain

It's all here

To serve

Your awakening

Seeing the impermanence

Of it all

With nowhere else

To fall

But into a loving

Universe

The safest place of all