The body speaks for itself

Sometimes I can’t convince myself to leave the house
There is an off feeling in the air
As if there is certainty that I will walk to the wrong places
No need for deep dives
to connect dots
about
having said the wrong things
having touched the wrong things
having gone to the wrong places
The body speaks for itself¹
Like when on the day of judgement
in the Court of Divine Justice
the body تَشْهَدُ عَلَيْهِمْ²
against
against
against
against who?
Who
Who
Who
“Who are you? I know not.
Planting flowers to which the butterflies come.
I don’t know.
This I don’t know
uttered in the infinite interior of the spirit,
this I don’t know is the same thing as”³
the will to live.


Jan-28-2023

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2. تَشْهَدُ عَلَيْهِمْ
   يَوْمَ تَشْهَدُ عَلَيْهِمْ أَلْسِنَتُهُمْ وَأَيْدِيهِمْ وَأَرْجُلُهُم بِمَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
   [ النور: 24]
   سورة : النور – An-Nūr  – الجزء : ( 18 )  –  الصفحة: ( 352 )
   On the Day when their tongues, their hands, and their legs or feet will bear witness against them as to what they used to do.
   https://surahquran.com/aya-24-sora-24.html ↩︎
3. Alan Watts
   https://open.spotify.com/episode/4XNyPjRUl1L3eKUTUaDFgL?si=95NrKYMCT3C0jHyuyB3lZQ ↩︎