Darkness appears to be the absence of light <br />but absence of darkness is not light. <br />Misery appears to be the absence of happiness <br />but absence of misery is not happiness. <br /> <br />Isolation appears to be the absence of love <br />but absence of isolation is not love. <br />Ignorance appears to be the absence of knowledge <br />but absence of ignorance is not knowledge. <br /> <br />Being what we are simply means <br />coming out of what appears to be. <br />But being what we are cannot be dependant <br />on coming out of something we are not. <br /> <br />We have always been and will always be <br />what we are. <br />So, we are realised but <br />we don’t realise it yet? <br />Until we come out of what we are not <br />which is only an appearance. <br /> <br />There is a lot to this keeping up of appearances <br />and no effort in simply being………… <br /> And ego said <br />“Whatever. What’s for lunch”<br /><br />David Taylor<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/keeping-up-appearances/
