Spiritual teacher and author Georgi Y. Johnson reads the poem Here Am I – from the book I AM HERE – Opening the Windows of Life and Beauty. The poem is based on the trilogy of perception “I” – Consciousness, “AM – Awareness, “HERE – Emptiness.

Here am I – Take me

HERE

Between beginning and end an assembly

of blood, bone and flesh indifferent as dust,

alive mostly in spaces between rib cage

shield of love and lungs doing alchemy

with degrees of illusion tender muscle and strictest bone

longing to belong as each particle

soaring through mindless space surrenders

to the field and becomes an empty world.

Am

not all we feared not the love,

nor the terror of children forsaken in emptiness

not the great soul spreading peace through mortal borders

but this being here, observing itself observing

through ages of love and bliss and the incredible loss.

I

with sacred cynicism of words whisper now,

resting lonely on the wings of softness

melting a surrendered mind as wisdom

arises for no purpose but to affirm attendance in life.

And humanity will raise his aged head from the sphere

of beloved earth lost and breaking open in loneliness of being apart.

she will say:

Here am I. Take me.