What Sweet Fruits
poem | 235 words — a message to a friend who is working too hard
What Sweet Fruits
by Maja Apolonia Rodé
A message to a friend who is working too hard:
You are the whole panorama.
What you see is
who you
are.
You are king and kingdom both.
There is no holy presence
other than your own.
When you see
with the eyes of your heart,
the sunlight of your being shines upon
the world around you
and all the universe unfolds
like a flower.
This is the birth of love.
Be not afraid of what comes next, for you already are
the most magnificently satisfying
climax of Life's Epic Tale.
You already are
your greatest dream of becoming.
You already are that which resolves
every paradox of being
and not being.
Become nothing.
Do nothing.
Instead, lean back
into the streaming current
and let life move you and grow you
from the inside
out.
When you don't know what to do next,
stop and ask: "What is it that I serve?"
Savor the beauty of that
calling for a time,
then
,
let the question "What next?"
be like a seed planted in the rich soil
of your passion and compassion.
Put your ear to that ground
and listen so closely you
can hear the sound
of that seed
cracking
open.
Follow the sound of that calling
until you become the
seed
sprouting
and not yet knowing
what love will make of you,
not yet knowing what
sweet fruits
will fall from your branches in time
and deliciously nourish
this hungry world.
❤ 2021 | Maja Apolonia Rodé
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The first line of the above poem echoes the words of an ancient sage, Jnaneshwar:
“If it is said that I am concealed by the existence of the world, then who is it that blossoms in the form of the world? Can a red jewel be concealed by its own luster? Does a chip of gold lose its goldness if turned into an ornament? Does a lotus lose itself when it blossoms into so many petals? When a seed of grain is sown and grows into an ear of corn, is it destroyed or does it appear in its enhanced glory? So there is no need to draw the curtain of the world away in order to have my vision, because I am the whole panorama.”
~ Jnaneshwar
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