The Meaning of Eden

Recordar: to Remember, as in

to re-member the fragments, as in

to re-join the parts to the whole,

re-connect through the heart, through the soul

to the infinite Source, the perennial Season,

asi el cor-razón is the core of all reason,

reason we fall – in Love – in duality

into illusion, back into Reality,

this is the meaning of the Garden of Eden:

oneness with nature – the art of just breathin –

the art of just being, like being a child,

living spontaneously, free and wild,

in a sense, the Garden is our innocence

lost to time and adulthood, hence

the cost of our living is suffering, being fenced 

off from our bliss because of this density,

when we are kids we know not good and evil,

only ecstasy, but then comes our upheaval,

we lose our union with nature, yes, we fall

and our whole lives are lived for this sacred retrieval,

the upsetting onset of our sexuality

throws us into a new sense of duality,

gradually we accept our mortality

challenging us to universality

to harmonize with the rest of creation,

reconcile the self with all our relations,

work day and night for the soul’s liberation

until we realize a world with no separation

but first we must suffer, in order to grow,

we must feel the pain of others as our own,

this is the choice to be human, to know

ourselves as God, and so come back home.

and just like the cycle from children to sages,

humanity must suffer through our dark ages

to evolve to the state of the saint and the Poet

to get back to where we started, but to know it.

this is the meaning of the story of the fall,

and it’s actually not a bad thing at all,

we ate from the apple to answer the call

of evolution, of being human, yes y’all,  

it’s perfect. it’s all rightfully planned.

out of darkness must come the Light, understand:

para encontrarla, primera pierda,

está Dios en el corazón – Recuerda.