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"Until You Become Like Children"

 

Until you become like children

You will not enter the kingdom

What does that mean?

Until you become

Like children

You will not

Enter the kingdom

 

We are all mature at five

We know the truth about the world

We don’t need intellect to tell us

Our hearts tell us clearly…

 

Adults are a lie

Prefabricated concrete ideas

Denying the child within

Countless suffering brought about by fear of children

Fear of our own…neglected…inner…child

Fear of God within…

 

Until we let go of our concrete ideas

Allow the creative fruits to flow from within

We adults will continue to create

Concrete fields of daisies

Emotions of granite

Creativity in monochrome

Sensations of ice

Concretized conditional love

Conditional, a condition of mind, an idea

 

Until we become like children

Deadpan faces will rule the world

Until we become like children,

Not what adults think they are…

Not what they’ve forced them to be…

But what an authentic five-year-old is

Without...all...the...rules...

 

Until you become like children

You will not enter the kingdom

The kingdom is not outside one's Self

It's not an idea forced contrived

It’s divine…divinity…undivided

 

A five-year-old makes it work

There are no secrets behind closed doors

Such sophisticated lies betray au…then…ticity…

True sharing and play revel in…divinity

In the kingdom it’s all or nothing

 

One can't enter the kingdom with a lie

One can't enter the kingdom with a mask

One can't enter the kingdom with conditional love

 

A five-year-old doesn’t believe in love

A five-year-old knows about love

For love is the divine within free to be itself

Free as only a five-year-old knows how to be

 

Children are fearless with the divine flowing from within

Society says it loves its children, but do they really?

Actions always speaking louder than their words

 

Adults judge, shame, and punish the child for being divine and limitless

Adults teach the child to think about the divine in limited condition

Somewhere out there in ritual…in belief…in not being

 

The divine leaves to protect the child from a distance

It is safer this way for the child to conform and obey

Thus begins the fall from grace until another day

 

We came to be reflected, instead we got corrected...

 

Until we become like children

We will not enter the kingdom

Love is not a concept of knowing

 

                                                                Love is divinity...

                                                            Flowing through...

                                                        Being unimpeded…

 

This love...

    This force…

        Is Creativity…

            Is Sexuality…

                Is Spirituality...

                    The nameless one...

 

 

All one...

    Alone....

                

                  

                                Waiting...

                            Patiently…

                        For us…....

                    To Become…

                Like Children...

            So We.........

       Can Enter......

  The Kingdom…

 

 

                                                                                                    And play on Heaven and Earth...

 

 

Sherman R. Buck

Summer 2001

Updated: 10/22/14