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Searching For The Holy Man

from SLAVES TO THE ILLUSION (2017) by Bob Westfall Moonlight Poet

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I wrote much of this on a bus ride from from Yecheon to Seoul, in South Korea. It was inspired by a spiritual memoir called It's Here Now, Are You? written by Bhagwan Das. Thanks to Sophia for lending me the book. Sorry I never gave it back. Actually I'm not. I still think you should have chosen me over the guy from One Direction.

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- Searching For The Holy Man -

Journey began like a fire in the wind
Seeking austerity and cleansing of sin
Escape from possessions and the weight of the knife
Freedom from the confines of everyday life.

Lived in a place that's afraid of change
Year after year it just stays the same
A caged reality, a loser's roulette
Some nights victorious and some a slow death.

So I took off to the holy land
Searching for the holy man.

I tried to kill the internal dialogue
Live like a stranger in the eye of God
A demon in the sky cried "Extinguish yourself!"
I stumbled through the darkness and became someone else.

The cosmic mother Kalima
Drank my blood in a mandala

I awoke in the cremation grounds
Wearing the ashes of the dead
Shadows cloaked the pariah
With devils dancing in his head
Tiny skulls thrown over cemetery walls
In a moment of lucidity, Kali came to call...

Take your begging bowl of dried human skull
Nourish the monk who has died and done it well.

So I took off to the holy land
Searching for the holy man.

Copyright Bob Westfall 2017

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from SLAVES TO THE ILLUSION (2017), released October 21, 2017
Written and performed by Bob Westfall.
Drums by Sean Keough.

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