Seeing What Is, A Poem

You've seen all there is to see,
Now you may see what Is.
Here behind a mask
there is your naked Face.

A flower is not what you think it is.
Nor is your self.
Drink from the flask of Reality,
and be quenched.

To see This,
open your eyes.
You are not in the dark.
Sing a song with me,
a song with no words.

Stop moving for a moment so you can see,
before you miss everything.
See This.
You've wasted enough time,
now the snake bites.

Time is running out,
open your eyes.
The flower bends over, the petals begin to weep.
Here.

Before it's too late!
Look.

Using Disappointment

If we are paying attention, disappointment is one of the best things that can happen to us.  Normally, we spend tremendous energy avoiding, dispelling, and overcoming disappointment...only to be revisited by it in some other way.  To use disappointment is to welcome an intense humiliation that burns us all the way through to what's true.  Disappointment as a feeling is only the surface experience, that's usually as far as people go. 
But, to allow yourself to be be fully dis-appointed is to fall from the place that you thought you were, and to discover your true appointment as Nothingness.  You are appointed to that which is always your Self, and all self-appointing leads to disappointment.  To see this as a gift rather than something to be feared, we begin to see things in their true form.  We begin to see that our pain is the doorway in. 
To be fully and completely disappointed, without dwelling on the thoughts and emotions of disappointment, is to reveal yourself as you are in wholeness.