THE LIVING DEATH

Artwork: Unnamed, Carl Jung, Red Book, 2009 (written ~1915) (source)
THE LIVING DEATH

Cry those Truth-Tears, brave Warrior of Light!
Step fully into the River of The Real!
Surrender to its flow!

Release all that which you tightly cling!
Close your eyes, and
Sink below the surface
You are no longer afraid!

Allow the Hurt to flow,
and wash away
the lies,
the delusions,
the disappointment,
the rage,
the fear

Embrace it all!
And sink to the riverbed below
writhe,
convulse,
pulsate,
erupt,
shatter,
shake,
tremble,
twitch,
quiver,
and sob
until you are still,
the living death complete

In your stillness,
the river begins its True Work,
to polish the roughness,
to remove all that is not truly Self

Until one day, you reemerge,
reborn,
a smooth river stone

On-towards death Self,
You are loved

G.D. Lance ©2020

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