The Accident

The Accident

A day of revelry is planned,
A journey out across the land,
Entering the forest, going deep,
Suddenly, tripping over a heap.

The trip results in a spill,
Falling down the side of a hill,
Finding ourselves lost, hurt and alone,
Despair grows, all hope seems thrown.

One leg is bloodied, all cut and bruised,
Focus on the injury, precious time ill-used,
Upon the realisation of this truth,
We take action, become like a sleuth.

Just over the next hill do we find,
A world hidden away from mankind,
This world so magical and bright,
A world which is truly man’s birthright.

Upon entering this vibrant place,
The locals welcome us with kind-face,
A hidden helping hand did guide,
Us to a place where we could abide.

In this place there did occur,
A healing of the injury which we did incur,
Once the healing was done and through,
Some time spent in this magical land anew.

In this land we did find,
A peace and harmony for body and mind,
Something so pure and innocent,
A place we can always return to in an instant.

Returning home after what occurred prior,
Deep contemplation internally did transpire,
This accident which occurred out of the blue,
In the end was the beginning of something new.

Something which before to us was concealed,
Because of this accident was now happily revealed,
Brought to the fore, and revealed by the fall,
This accident did not occur by chance at all!

Meditation For The Poem

You will come to see, eventually, that every poem that has been published here is not based on some idea that I plucked out of the far reaches of my mind. Every poem is based on the principles that were distilled from a direct experience that occurred as a part of my own life, which I subsequently spent time integrating and internally realising. Each poem, in some way, therefore represents that realisation made manifest in the form of a piece of creative writing. Although these principles may sometimes be conveyed through the use of metaphors, images, and fables, it is the principles that were distilled from these experiences which is the focus of the poem.

It is the aggregation of all of these experiences which help reveal the true nature of the cosmos to us. Bearing this in mind, we can look at this particular poem and look at the principle that is outlined in it. There will often be moments that arise in our lives when we feel as though something terrible is happening to us. It is in those moments that we may feel as though we are the victim of some cosmic conspiracy that is fixated on bringing hardship into our lives. As this poem hints, some of these ‘terrible’ experiences may be related to ‘serious’ issues, such as our health, being severe enough to warrant us perceiving ourselves as being in a ‘life-or-death’ scenario. 

In these moments, because of the intense nature of the phenomenal nature of the experiences that we find ourselves in, it can be difficult for us to maintain a clear perception of what is happening. We can often get caught up in the drama of the moment and lose sight of the bigger picture. Usually, with the benefit hindsight, we are able to look back at these events and realise that we gained far more from them then we were aware of at that time. Sometimes these experiences help to create shifts in our conscious perception and the way we look at the world, and are therefore often needed when we have become blocked or stuck. It is therefore ironically us becoming blocked or stuck in our lives that in some way ‘calls’ such events to us.

If these events are interpreted as being ‘negative’ in some way, the event or experience itself can take longer for us to be able to integrate fully, because on some level we have rejected it. This is why we find an emphasis being placed on not labelling events as ‘negative’ in many of the philosophic, religious and spiritual systems, often encouraging the seeker to come to view such events from a different perspective. This is not being done to negate the experience itself, but is part of an effort to help the individual begin to integrate the experience so that their conscious perception can become unified once again. The idea here being that whilst we hold these events in our perception as being ‘negative’, the block in our conscious perception generated by that view creates a resistance to the integrative process.

This is why we will often find that an individual who has truly developed themselves could have gone through some ‘terrible’ experiences, and yet they can talk about them like any of the other experiences that occurred in their life. It is important to note that this is not because they have numbed themselves to the experience, which is what we typically see as a subconscious driver leading to someone beginning to take drugs after such an experience, but because the experience itself has become fully integrated within their perception. 

Once these experiences have been fully integrated and realised, with the benefit of hindsight, we may be fortunate enough to have developed ourselves to be able to see that these ‘accidents’ were no accident at all, much like the character in the poem comes to realise. These events instead become viewed as being part of a carefully and meticulously orchestrated plan by the cosmos to help them arrive at an understanding of who they really are, in the expanded sense of the meaning of this phrase. Sometimes the greatest traumas and accidents in our lives turn out to be a key event that alters the trajectory of our lives for the better. By us coming to know who we really are to a greater degree, our conscious perceptions become clearer and, as a result of this, we begin to make increasingly appropriate decisions and choices. It is multiple instances of these more appropriate decisions and choices that all aggregate together to become a life with a completely different trajectory to the trajectory it had before.

In many ways, it is the recognition of the benefits that a certain event has brought into our lives that marks the moment when the full integration and internally realisation of that event in its entirety has been completed. It is a shame that we can often only see this with the benefit of hindsight though afterwards. Ironically, if this was something that could have been seen by us whilst the event was unfolding it is highly likely that the event itself wouldn’t have had such an impact upon us. Therefore, through looking at things in a more conscious manner, we come  to realise that these events become part of our life because they are the exact experience required, once they have been integrated and realised, to resolve a major block in our conscious perception. This poem is dedicated to those accidents which have come to us all in a variety of different ways, but nevertheless through our own work and dedication were transmuted into something positive in our lives.