Drowning

They appear as given direction and order
What you are
Have to become
What this world you barely know – except what you read, learned, and were told about –
Is

You are looking for your place to be
Purpose and meaning
Seeking what this is all about
What they told you
These voices in your head
Named father, mother, teacher, master
God and devil
Demons and angels
Spirits and deities
Your soul

You feel that they all were lying to you

You are drowning

Something you cannot name seems to be swallowing you
Slowly, bit by bit

You cling to your beliefs
What they taught you
What you practiced

They get louder
Distracting
I am! I am!
Silence is screaming

Presence awareness
The same voice
Disguised

Trying to keep you above
You aim higher

Gradually, you feel how you drown
You can barely breathe
Aliveness
The stream takes you

I am! I am this! Not this!

You drown in what you thought it to be
And it is not
That

While resistance, what you know, chokes you
You seem to die
But you don’t

No-one is dying

What seems like drowning
Are the voices in your head
Still pretending
They know the truth
Are truth

I am!