Follow

The mind plays tricks on the heart.
And the heart with suspicion stays silent
and lets the mind take the lead.
Who can know where this flow of thought will take me.
Take me, take me, take me.
Where will it take you and us and us and you.
Take me far.

The delusions of the mind strong and subtle
yet irrevocably lazily drips
till it drowns all other influence.
The mind will take me
where love dare not follow- follow follow follow,
follow me to the place where the timid dare not go,
to a land where dire death
and faith and life and love and hope
become entwined
and meet into a great struggle of thought.

To a cold and dark land, stale and pale yellow.
Nothing to love,
nothing to be loved by.
Reason is King.
Reason executes the unfaithful.
Reason will accept no contradiction of thought,
no acceptance of morality greater than thought.
Mind over matter
so we’ve been told.

Take me deeper in-
to a land of giants and goblins.
The place in my mind
where dreams and nightmares
fettishly entwine themselves together
disguising the good as evil and evil as good.
The place where finally the mind no longer has control
and the heart leads the way.

Leads the way up and out.
From the valley of the shadow of reason
to the light of the truth of my heart.

Follow your heart so we’ve been told.
Follow it,
although it be torn from you chest
and walks on its own legs
into danger unknown.

Follow follow follow
into the place where the brave dare not follow.
The land where unicorns and angels collide.
Fantasy and phantoms of imaginations arise,
til we drown in the pleasures of our heart.
Our deceitfully wicked heart
turns traitor and our passions consume us.
Til we find neither hope of flight or hope of death.
Passionless epicurean pursuit of nothing.
All is vain the great teacher said-
all will come to nothing.

When our minds our broken
and passions of the heart no longer satisfy-
what then, what then will save?
What can we follow?
When all inside me has failed me,
mind and heart alike, where can I turn?
Its then a faint breeze whispers in my ear,
“You need not follow let me carry you”.