He read

that Meister Eckhart said,

“I pray God to rid me of ‘God’!”

Isn’t that odd?

Is there a bad shadow

attached to the name —

letters three — a shadow

in parentheses?

 

He read

that the Buddha said,

“If you meet the ‘Buddha’ on the road,

him you shall kill.”

That gave the man a real chill.

And in the name were three more letters

than the previous three

in parentheses,

but both three in the

shadow parentheses.

 

He read

that someone said,

“Jesus is the window through which

it is God we see.”

In Jesus there are five letters and

in God just three

but, here, there are no

shadows in parentheses.

 

He said, “Maybe I need

to get rid of the two lettered ‘me’

in parentheses,

the shadow that I meet

in the reflection in the window

through which I seek to see

Thee,

but instead see

the shadow ‘me,’

that leads to the ‘Thee’ —

four letters — Thee in shadow

parentheses.”

 

For an introit, he once sang

a song, a paraphrase upon Jesus’ words

to hang,

“Follow me

where I go

what I do and

who I know.

Make it part of you

to be a part of me.

Follow me

up and down,

all the way and all around.

Take my hand and

say you’ll follow me,”  * —

the authentic Divine Me

in the authentic Thee

and no shadow parentheses

anywhere to see.

*lyrics by John Denver