Sending and Taking

Sending and Taking

The serve and the volley   of the kings Oak and Holly

Transfer of Power

Heavenward rides the sacrifice from the Agni’s womb-furnace

Scented smoke carries goods to gods and gandharvas

And to those In Between

To gods and to children tends the bright mind of service

The bridegroom and the bride all happy and nervous

Though below and above dwell demon and deva
From the balanced human issues bright seva

A hand to above and a hand to below

A river of blessings to flow to flow

To bless and to offer

To fill and to empty – the coffer

From the light and sublime to the heavy huddled masses

We open to the pathflow of the guests of four classes

In service to the named and colored spirits, living loas

Combed with song together and teased with wild dohas

Offer fearless mind to all that live and die in the vast samsara

Offer flesh and blood to all the kinds four whose names are Mara

It’s OK now Give away the tight self that was never

Let go the deception, all safe poison illusion now sever

Take pain and madness and fear and loss

Give praise and joy and victory and gloss

These are but clouds that blot the Sun’s aimless flakes

Look to find naught as to who gives and who takes

Of That and of This ‘Tis Different yet Same

But all split asunder with Form and with Name

May the bridges of grace-beams carry the soft defiled

Now tend the telepathy of Mother and Child

The gift is connection, a beacon, a link

For when one is thirsty, one finds there a drink

For if There is nothing then what Now is Here?

Who reaches in to the paradoxical queer?

And who lets fall all that is dear?

Oh don’t despair ye wild dancer

For there is no logical answer.