KENOSIS

Kenosis
Is the act
Of Self Emptying -
The Purpose
Of Meditation.

What is
Atrophied
Is one’s overblown ego
Encrusted
With hubris and aggrandizement.

A self, inflated by Puffery
Tended and cared for
Over the years
Like an exotic
Hot-house Flower.

Kenosis is a necessary step
Towards Individuation -
That Jungian notion
Which provides the text
For the second half of Life.

The deflation of the ego
The abandonment of
That Carefully cultivated Persona
And its substitution with Heart.

The cutting of the Flower.
The opening to Spirit
And the Reconnecting
To the Great Rhythm
Of the Universe.