"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