Shed

Approaching the sacred without fear of death

I sought to offer you the way to transform

Just as buds became flowers in that garden

To shed the skin of ignorance in favor of light

View the world through eyes of the divine

Provide illumination of the mind and rebirth

This new vision would require your rebirth

But it would also mean facing the death

Of things you loved and thought divine

Such death would be how you transform

And look with new eyes to see the light

The truth which hid beyond the garden

A womb safe and fruitful was the garden

The place of the first birth and rebirth

Shielded from the curse of blinding light

To keep eternal and know not of death

Never having want or need to transform

This was the promise of the worldly divine

Promises were also the secrets of the divine

Secrets that were not whispered in the garden

The secret was the ability to know, to transform

That you have the command of your own rebirth

And you could understand the urgency of death

Be warmed rather than blinded by this light

You were cheated, told to fear that light

Fed a frightful, outrageous lie by the divine

Told that to know truth would mean death

Everything you want is already in the garden

Stay in darkness and you will not need rebirth

Ignore why it is you have a desire to transform

I let you fulfill that desire to transform

Feel the warm weight of the knowing light

The stunning enlightenment of your rebirth

Have knowledge that it is you who are divine

You who is the womb and life of the garden

The one with power to create life out of death

You could transform into the supreme divine

See the light that filled the world outside the garden

Understand that rebirth is the same as death