BABA – PLAYWRIGHT OF THE IMAGINATIONBaba,
You are the great
Playwright
of the world
You are making up this drama
day by day
hour by hour
whimsically arbitrarily
just imagining
this might happen that might happen
let's try this
let's try that
all the affairs and events
of the world
great and small
You are making up
whimsically arbitrarily
randomly
at the whim
of Your own imaginative pleasure
in the same way
as I might decide
what to eat for breakfast
or what color clothes to wear
today
so You decide
the content
the drama
of whole lifetimes
of worlds and universes
You are always rolling the dice
of life
with a gleam and a sparkle
in Your eye
secretly
invisibly
setting out the combinations
as they fall
saying
Let's try this
let's try that
...for a change
Why not see how it feels
this way
– wait a minute
Why not have it
both ways
I'm infinite
I can experience it
happening
every way
every possible way
at once
And so the universes and worlds
spread out
in profligate
profusion
in colorful
confusion
like wild flowers
on a sunlit field
of enormous and wild expanse
and all the time
You are deciding
which one I'll experience
and which one I'll remember
experiencing
with a winkle
and a twink
in Your eye
Anything can happen
in this world
in this dream
which is just a play
of the Divine imagination
of Your imagination
Baba
of Your playful imagination
and in my imagination
I can also play
and make up
and make up freely
a million possible
alternate worlds
and let my heart play in them
delight in them
like romping in the waves and bubbles
of an infinite ocean
See those purple-and-blue-striped
elephants
coming down the road
they've been trooping like that
daily
for years
and I always sit right here
on my front porch
and watch them as they go by
twirling and whirling
their trunks in the air
their great trunks
on which they're juggling
rubber balls
globes
painted on the outside
to look like planet Earths
Yes
past present and future
the probable future
the habitual present
all are toys
to be balanced
on the whimsical
trunk
point
spire stick
of my
whimsical imagination
there is nothing too wild
about this world
and about my life in it
that I cannot imagine
and
since my limited imagination
is just an extension
of Your really unlimited
and infinite
Imagination
Baba
– yes
mine is really quite a
pedestrian affair
compared to Yours –
but since mine is part and
parcel
of Yours
I know these things
could really happen
in some world
in this world in the next world
in some corridor or compartment
of this infinite dream
which is Your imagination
of the infinite possibilities
of creation
of the infinite answer
to the wonderfully repeated
question
Who am I
and I'm going to enjoy using my
imagination
more and more
playing in the dream worlds
created in my mind
and so remembering
being reminded
that this world
is all completely
Your playland
and everything
everything
abso-lutely everything
is happening
according to Your Will
Your playful whimsical Will
Your twinkling
sparkling
whim