To Love Me Is To Know Me
I’m so unseen
Until my form is thought
To fill a need or two
To quench a thirst
To serve you now
Exactly as instructed
To please somehow
Until I am
Forgotten fresh again
Until your thirst reminds
Once more
For then I’m so important
And so I serve as I am told
A diamond used to stop a door
You’ve never even seen me
Yet pouring still is what I do
For loving is what fills this form
If I am used then I comply
As often as desired
But please just ask with open heart
And I will take you home to give
The source of all you yearn for
Yes you can have me
All of me
There’s just the matter
Of my name
How you address me
How you speak
I’m not the one
You think you know
For when you speak my name I laugh
Because you have it oh so wrong
Announcing me as property
As one who must obey
And so
Unnamed unknown
I play
My game with you
Until you see
Until you feel
Until you know
All I am for you now
Just speak my name
By loving me
To let me give you everything
~ Doug Sandlin
***
It’s a very common name, the world over; one that each of us has been all too familiar with, at one time or another — and yet, it is always in error.
The mis-used name?
“My mind.”
