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Sitting on the Moon

by Rula Shin



Escaping the perpetual grip of
EarthÂ’s gravitational pull
I rose up from a dream within a dream
Taking my seat upon the distant moon

Sitting still upon the moon
I perceive the earth as a whole
Staying out of reach unseen
By earthlings absent in their presence

The observer is neutral but watchful
Temperate but aware of all dreamers
Who are UNLIVING in her name
On this land of sleepwalkers
Disposed to their world of fancy

The dreamer is in no mood to wake
Nor can she concede to go back
To the dream within her dream
Though cursed to dream she remains

So from the moon I keep an eye
Refusing to indulge in her whims
Becoming two with two sets of eyes
For the sake of becoming ONE

I wish to seal the gap of sight
Between the earth and moon
To occupy Mars in the next ascension
Observing the self on the moon
Observing the dreamerÂ…

12/09/2005

Posted on 04/20/2006
Copyright © 2024 Rula Shin

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Mary Ellen Smith on 04/20/06 at 04:46 PM

infinity....reading and rereading this I became so small and the visual of you sitting on the moon...and beyond...I love it.

Posted by Elizabeth Jill on 04/21/06 at 01:34 PM

This I understand (as the ancient Oak Tree who umbrellas my porch… is the moon I sit on/with/in. Every reflection here is a movement into the next. Beautifully expressed!

Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 04/21/06 at 04:56 PM

Easy enough piece to swallow and compare to one's own life as dream and dreamer. :o)

Posted by Ashok Sharda on 04/25/06 at 04:19 PM

‘The observer is neutral but watchful’ , experiencing every thing in detail, in the space time continuum, within, as well without. This observation in continuity makes the observer SEE one’s own dreamers ‘disposed to their world of fancy’ ‘on this world of sleep walkers’. The real struggle begins here between this observing self and those multitude of dreamers ‘UNLIVING in her name’ They are ’in no mood to wake’ Nor the one who has walked out of ‘a dream within a dream’ can ever go back to the old dream having realized that it was a dream. Though one is not sure if one is in a dream inside yet another dream.
This seems to have compelled you to not pronounce your waking state as an objective reality. Instead, you have used ‘dream within a dream’ in the wake of the truth that there can never be an objective truth.
Besides Rula Shin, this conflict is imminent to attain eventual ONENESS within. The observing self will have to consequently turn into your intending self, the self who ought to get into conflict with all the ‘sleep walkers’ the observing self is so keenly watching sitting on the moon and WIN their associations so as to remain the one and the only SELF, the OPERATOR. My my, you seem to have thought of the next course of ACTION, and that is SEEING seeing, distancing your self further from your self, leaving no chance of getting back in your old dreams. Yes, this is the only way to LIVE in amness, SEEING our selves seeing from moment to moment in continuity. Rula Shin, you have here depicted such a beautiful spiritual practice one ought to do in order to UNDO all the sleep walkers within. Kudos!!!

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