land of the spirits

heinrich zimmer spoke of a
land of the spirits
or of souls
there
our potentialities
live out their lives
fantasies almost
since they are ne'er realized in life.

what is it that you truly want to be...
can reality
fulfill that wish
or are you blocked
by personae
and social realities?

everything is permissible
when morality becomes natural
and for a while
everything is right
then something completely unintentional happens...
we hurt each other
not knowing
but who can possess such a consciousness
who can know everything and study all the variations
of cultures within cultures,
naturally we are overwhelmed
but we must offend
or protest.

relax, it is not for us to be gods
but men and women
actualized by pain into rapture
to the burning point of the universe
where opposites
are no longer opposites.