UNNOTICED

   I dropped in on the ego today, 
   . . . unnoticed.
  It was too preoccupied with itself
  to acknowledge my presence,
  busily imputing illusions of purpose
  to an aging body it dreamed was me.
  It didn´t notice when forgiveness
  displaced judgement as my function.
  A shift it never could foresee.
  Ruminating about the past,
  speculating about the future,
  ignoring the present,
  it completely missed the Atonement.
  Salvation came and went unnoticed,
  the transformation unacknowledged.
  Nothing changed.
  What never was remains the same:
  graven images – pictures!
  Not of me, not of anyone.
  Bodies? Sure, but painless, temporary,
  never used for judgement or attack.
  Bodies that testify to exemption from hurt, —
  witnessing to the innocence of God´s beloved.
  The tears are gone forever,
  laughed away in unselfed love.
  Replaced by forgiveness
  the ego was simply too busy judging to notice. 
    
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