Aries Jordan: Poem on the Shaman's Ordeal by Fire

The Shaman's Ordeal by Fire

                              
photo Gene Hazzard

You say "I love you" but can't stand you
We both laugh the feeling is mutual
Student  Teacher
Dear Teacher, have you learned something from me?
I have learned so much about my history about standing up for myself

One cannot be a punk ass bitch around you
Thick skin a must 

overbearing
like night and day
true  Gemini
12 personalities
1.Brown liquor Nigga
2. intellect
3. Historian
4.OG
5.Plato Negro
6. Dirty old man
7. The lazy Prophet
8. Poetic mad man
9. Advisor
10. Hustler Supreme
the last two personalities don't yet have a name
always a truth teller

Though you think i don't listen
I do sometimes
Though i think you don't listen to me
you don't
only sometimes

you create magic with your words
a journey with your pen

I can't do more than 3 to 4 hours around you

too intense

I gots to go

You say I am  square and you're out the box

say I am steeped in religiosity

i say I am me

You drift off sometimes to places unseen
You say all teachers take students through the ordeal by fire

I say "Is that right?!"

More like ordeal of Madness

I don't play that shit

Thank you for making me a better writer and better person

--Aries Jordan

 

The Shaman Speaks to Neophyte     photo Gene Hazzard you come into my world of fire disturbed you got burned what foolishness is this when the world is ablaze do they not make fires to put out fires? In my fire is love the only reason for being engulfing the flames burn away all illusions only the essential shall remain the loving self beyond youth and age beyond preference want desire only the spirit needs shall be met no ego desires need apply it is dross like a candle in the wind the flame cannot last the student and teacher dance only to transcend the normal naked world that bland self taught by mother/father on to the shaman world beyond the brink across the chasm that is our task if you come with me all the way to the end no half stepping no diversion into the normal this journey is to the meta reality you can go there with me or fly into fires beyond my torch of freedom with discipline beyond lover husband and wife to the spirit truth without name yet it is all there is in essential time we may not like each other but again the need is there we try escape to no avail humankind is not for us only the divine so try if you must to escape see how we come into each other's arms only to avoid the kiss some fear remains until we understand there no escape the matter was settled the moment we met. We are one in the sun in the wind in the fire of love. --Marvin X 6/14/13