I Am Naked!

nevertheless, floating on or diving in is not the case ..

I Am Naked!

Life stops where you stop, and the deeper you go, the deeper life gets – it’s all you. Yet why do the experiences flutter into the nothingness of time and disappear? Mocking us into being truly in touch with all there is, and bitterly holding on to those things of the world, not wanting to open up the soul. Useless boundaries when all is a clump of matter and soon to return back to one. There is meaning and there is sound wisdom, but the more you know, the more there is still that you don’t know, so how could one reach a definite affirmation of life when the only thing that is ultimate is that there will always be more? Are we meant to remain floating on and ignore that we always have a chance to dive in? If floating on is the reason, why do pearls not float along? How deep a breath are you willing to take before diving with ponder into life? Considering every moment especially dear to the heart, being naked to the scars knowing somehow it is how you must grow. Wearing no shield to keep your heart, only to let everything in and grasp the harmonious meaning of everything that must touch your eyes and sink into your soul. The stronger the intention of wanting to understand, the more mysterious the lyrics become. It’s a scene where the sunsets, but one remains spattered by the duality of the simplicity of the silent setting with the intricacy of the explosion of its glow. It’s all a matter of choice, but somehow and for some reason it was meant that everything shall eventually reach its end, so what’s it worth living and not knowing? It’s beyond curiosity – it’s the innocence of passion.

-Al-Gassim Sharafuddin, June 11, 2012

Breathing Dust

Humility is my light, a Breathing Dust is who I am ..

Breathing Dust
Simply look away when dislike fills the air, simply drop the bomb of sympathy to keep yourself okay, and simply act the brittle part in inceptions of might and great – when your soul is peeled, and delusions of a psychological being remain.
If for some reason humbleness came your way for you to seek the truth, they will let you go. “Truth is an ocean, there are oceans of truth,” they’ll tell you. With all pleasure you swim from shore to shore. From shore to shore, as if there is a desire to struggle, a hunger for pain, and an unspoken grief over the growing excite that something within is mortal. From shore to shore, all, only to keep one from giving in to the cage they’ve locked themselves in. It is as putting a bird in a cage made of gold to keep the guilt away, and here, the souls are buried deep that only the make-up appears.
In such world, a hacked illusion feeding of despair, the shade is rarely tempting. Darkness veils itself in light, and any form of resistance is equivalent to slavery however one goes. Even to resist is to play by their rules of the game, and such is no different to slavery.
Remember, in such world, they’ll never tell you that sometimes everyone is just trying to “swim against the stream” to be themselves, and they never told you that everyone is almost lost busy swimming the oceans seeking the truth - still in their own cage.
Whereas the truth might really seem as vast as the ocean, the truth could just be a tear in a silent night, a sigh in acceptance to the process of life, and even simpler, a laugh of joy to all there is.
How difficult it is to embrace love and truth when one is in such a cage? How easy is to put oneself in a cage only to keep one from the reality of being a Breathing Dust? To break such cage is to reach the peak of humility so high up that one could fall and lose it all, but still, when done, the winds blow the fear away. For that is the only moment when humility is a power – an honor. Humility for love and compassion – humility only a true Breathing Dust would desire.

-Al-Gassim Sharafuddin, May 25, 2012

Understanding the Stir of Life

my life remains unpaved ..

Understanding the Stir of Life
Sometimes one can be fascinated by the change life brings about – the beauty of life experiences that happen due to this change, and the many lessons one learns and grows from. Nature, being full of change such as the most obvious change in time between day and night to the mystery of the change in the color levels of the sky, inspires the Human Being of importance of change. It is important to recognize this fact in one’s life that constants and facts could possibly and do change even if it’s not blooming obvious in the conscious life. Taken for granted the way nature changes in a specific order of things in such a way that whatever happens and follows will eventually lead to what should and need to have happened usually leaves people off without pondering on the value of it all. However, even if somehow the human thought was exerted on understanding the stir of life, such pattern of change could be observed as an inconsistency and not a fascination – a cosmic prison and not a beautiful harmony of oneness. It’s in the core of the Human need for consistency as well, and nature again brings us the rhythm of the waves of the ocean and how such sounds create harmony and self-awareness into the human soul. The answer to this stir of these junctures of life, change and consistent rhythm, is when both notions are tuned together they make the road of life – a road that is unpaved, for the one taking the journey to pave it.

-Al-Gassim Sharafuddin, May 03, 2012