Cracking an egg on the edge of a pan,
buttering toast, and pouring coffee.
In these small events,
I take good cheer and overcome the world.
Truly, I am, this morning, a nobody!
No longer in the world
and yet a destroyer of worlds.
I am the destroyer of time.
Do you want to know my secret power?
Not knowing.
This poem
is a reference to Christ’s words, .”These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.". John 16:33. He was referring to himself as the embodiement of aware presence which is the source of a peace beyond words and time.
Mike, I struggle with this mediation even with your reference to Christ's quote - although I think I can fathom your/its meaning.
For me, "not knowing" and life/existence/reality being ultimate mystery lead me to a perspective and most importantly, feeling, that I am the world (not in and separate from the world, not outside of the world observing it, not its destroyer, but perhaps it is created in my consciousness and not separate from it).
For me, I am not a destroyer of time. From my perspective of Eternal Now, I am time. Indeed, there is no time - only Now. Only Here Now Being (as Joan would say). And, Here Now Being includes peace and tribulation and every other human feeling.
Who is this "I" who takes good cheer, destroys the world and time, is a nobody, and knows not?
From one perspective (the one that "I" like to take) is that there is no "I". Just mystery/not knowing*. Just This!
Thanks for sharing. Your words always challenge and inspire me.
Noel
*paradoxically, not knowing conceptually, but fully knowing as feeling - as always, language fails when we try to talk/write about This.