Marius Michal Klimowicz

The mastermind behind the project, he believes in every person's right to be happy and knows from experience that, even though the path to happiness and freedom from the demons of our past is fraught with pain, it is perhaps the most worthwhile endeavour any person could embark on. He hopes that his poetry might inspire others to heal too.

01

Be Aware

Revelation

I’m suddenly awake and find

That I forgot myself

In mired mazes of the mind

And cannot sense my Self.

Inside the maelstrom tossed

By transient joys. Now lost.

I'm fleeing into fleeting highs

For their ephemeral relief;

The truth now deeply buried lies,

Yet I cannot outrun the grief.

I sacrificed true happiness,

Abiding in true loneliness

Where now a stranger gazes out,

With eyes like embers burned,

And in his throat a stifled shout

Against the worlds he's spurned.

Bewildered shadows of the past

Collide in shattered mindscapes vast

And pull me down into their throe

Where with despair and woe I know:

So that these buried wounds can heal

I must endure to feel...

02

Understand

Words, wards, worlds

Words dissolve and words define;

Words set free and words confine;

Words can kill and words give life;

Words cause wars and words end strife;

Words breed love and nurture hate;

Words destroy and words create;

Words conceal and words reveal;

Words can harm and words can heal.

In Sacred Silence…

Into the ineffable

(Decomposing surfaces,

Rarely touching essences)

Words dissolve incapable.

When attempting to define

That which cannot be contained

For their limits must be blamed.

The result is: words confine.

Words can kill and freeze the will

With a pessimistic chill

Poison passion, clip its wing,

Murder buds before the spring.

Words cause wars in souls that burn,

Where inadequacies churn,

Egos greedy, insecure

Eager on the world to vore.

Words can nurture hate and cruel

Fan the flames, become the fuel,

Which it cannot do without:

Transitory it’d die out.

Words destroy the dreams that fly

Unencumbered through the sky:

In a dessert - fallen seed,

Disconnected from the deed.

Words conceal the higher mind

The unconscious of mankind

The true nature of the soul

For they cannot grasp the whole

Words can harm into the core

Past what eyes can now explore

Yet are frequently ignored

All these wounds that are endured.

…sing Echoes of Understanding

Words define and shine their light

Into ignorance’s night;

Anchors in the raging storm

Compass in life’s endless swarm.

Words set free the shackled mind

Giving sight unto the blind

Free to fly and free to roam

Worlds in tomes or yet unknown.

In minds that unbounded soar

Ever searching, seeking more,

Gardens, where creation’s rife:

E’en in sadness, words give life.

For the soul who holds it true:

You are Me and I am You

Intertwined within the flow,

Words end strife so worlds can grow.

Psyches which are now aware

Of mind’s poisons can’t forbear

Their existence and thus know

Words breed love and help it grow.

Visionaries those who dared

Dreams with action, justly paired

Dedicated to the wait

And the struggle: words create.

Ears that learn to listen yearn

The facade of life to spurn

Tear the veil and break the seal

Of th’ unknown. Then words reveal.

Open understanding’s gates

Where compassion gladly waits:

Empathy is poised to feel.

Then you’ll find that words reveal

03

Accept

The other side of the mirror

High up, the prince, who lacks for naught,

Sheds sighs from towers, lost in thought

And dreams of unencumbered life

Thus free from duty and from strife,

Thus free from bonds of etiquette,

Responsibility and debt.

This wish only in silence dares,

To stare at clouds without these cares:

A shepherd, sprawled out on the ground,

From politics and schemes unbound.

A shepherd, sprawled out on the ground,

By hunger and his duty bound,

In clouds envisions marble halls,

Where care of daily struggle falls:

A hedonistic paradise,

Abundance senses to entice

And sate. And so to contemplate,

Reflect and play can pass each day,

While servants on your wishes wait.

Yet such a wish can’t dare to say.

The past does not exist, it’s gone…

The future never seems to come…

The constant Now ‘s the only truth;

Embracing it ‘s eternal youth.

04

Forgive

Resentment

My heart and mind I claw and gnaw and shred

In hopes of seeing th’ one who wronged me dead.

05

Let Go

Breath of Life

Inhale

Yet softly sew the veil

Into the sail that glides

Through universal tides.

Sink in

Immersed in sense,

Without pretence;

Sans want or need,

Restraint or greed.

And merely feed,

Take in

The world's breath,

It's song of life and death

And hum along:

Notes neither right, nor wrong.

Expand

Beyond your reach;

Breach through this cage of bone.

Stare, achingly aware

At limits upon which you stand.

Take one more step and plunge

Deeper still

Past the event horizon into night,

Towards the darkest source of light

Where strings are so tense

Vibration stops before it can begin;

And Silence so dense

All sound is drowned within its deaf'ning din

Here Hold

Merely observe how all you've found

In codependency is bound;

Like the existence of each sound

Upon the pause around...

Exhale

Then tear the sail,

Abandon to the ride

And trust in any river's flow.

Their courses wind, but steady go

To that same ocean wide

Rise

Above and out of truth and lies,

Then climb the bony ladder past the eyes

That have seen all and nothing yet,

And past a mind that can forget.

Release

All words unto their origin.

Without eyes look without, within:

Just equanimity and peace,

Since all things born must also cease.

Contract

Into the single point

Where all is joined,

There to attract

The tails of light

Trailing your flight

Higher still

Go on until

E'en air is gone

And all is still.

Now Hold.

Now You are One!

Now You are None!

Now you are All!

All Now, All Here

Is in this sphere.

Then, on the toll,

When you must fall:

Inhale..