Your Original Face

poem

A Zen master asks the student,
“Without thinking good or evil, in this very moment, What is your original Face? …. Show me your Original Face, the face you had before your parents were born.”

What is your face before you went shopping?
What is your face before the pandemic?
What is your face before the 2008 economy bubble burst was propped-up pyramid scheme style?
What is your face before the Global War OF Terror?
What is your face before the war OF terror on Syria,
Yemen, Gaza, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Vietnam, Korea...?
What is your face before the 500-plus years holocaust against the Original Peoples of Turtle Island?
What is your original face before 1492?
What is Earth’s original face?
What is your original face before your ancestors migrated to the west?What is your face before JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X were assassinated?
What is your face before Jesus? (whose face is probably the most well-known face in all of history except for Taylor Swift)
What is her face before Taylor Swift put on all that makeup?
What is my face after i cried?
What is your face before industrialization, compartmentalization, segregation, mechanization?
What is your face before you faced the music, the mirror, the truth?
What is your face before FaceTime?
What is your face before Photoshop?
What is your original face before you put on your mask of religion, country, school degree, online persona, county, street, job, wardrobe, fake smile, crocodile tears, stone face, quivering lip, twitching eye, expressionless face, game face?
What is your face after you saw Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream”?
What is your face after you saw Picasso’s painted faces?
What is your face during orgasm?
What is your face when you learned of the Scold’s Bridle? (an iron muzzle of the 16th to 19th centuries, mostly used on women)
What is your face when watching a horror movie, a drama, a comedy?
What is your original face in the mirror, your dreams, the puddle on the street?
What is your original face when the sunlight warms your cheeks?
What is your original face when the moonlight makes you smile?
What is your original face when the starlight twinkles your eyes?
What is your original face when you look at someone else’s original face?

Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) writes, publishes, gardens, travels a holistic mystic Kaballah-rooted pathway staying in touch with Turtle Island. To find out more about his writings, publishings, podcasts, presentations at . . . . Allbook Books