Life With Me is Like…

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What if you couLd stay gone for as Long as you Like, just as Long as when I caLL, YOU come?

ShiLa Is Like…

“ShiLa is Like, earth, wind, and fire,
rims and tires
BuLLetproof gLass, inside, is the reaLest driver
PLanets in orbit,
Line em’ up with the stars,

tarot cards, you can see the Pharoah…
Nas is Like, Iron Mike, messiah type
before the Christ, after the death, the Last one Left…”

Nas Is Like.

Enjoy the message behind the words. Take nothing personaL.

-shiLa iris

(you know I’m jokin, right?)

LoL. Aren’t you joking, too?

When I ask, you give,
i aLLow you to take.

You stiLL got the reaL in you?

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God is the thing, between, us.

(You wiLL not rest untiL you find it).

– shiLa iris

Instruments that measure…

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How much you want to spend on me?

To get to know me, you’re going to have to invest. 

Money ain’t a thing, but that’s aLL it is.  

How much time? 

– shiLa iris

P.S. I feLt a tremendous power fLowing from his caLm eyes. 🫦 GuiLeLess, with the transparency of a chiLd’s. Ever gentLe and Loving, he was firmLy estabLished in the infinite consciousness. Many of our happy hours together were spent in deep meditation.

Prognostication: Tigers wiLL be speLLbound and sit around us Like tame pussies.

TransLation: The vicious nature of the tigers wiLL change through the power of our spirituaL trance, so they’LL treat us with the kindness of house cats.

I continue ceaseLessLy on my path to Liberation. I continue. My secret doors are reveaLed onLy thru devotion.

EvoLved thinking…

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Take me with you, or Let go. You have been given free wiLL by the power that created you, and, so have I. There’s nothing Like that power.

shiLa iris

Mother knows. Are you reaLLy my friend?

Short poem…

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If I’m worth Losing, Lose me.


























I have Limits worth acknowLedging. Ask me. Then Listen.

Not to be taken so LiteraLLy, but to be understand beyond words.

-shiLa iris

P.S. Listen to Bob Marley & The WaiLers: Satisfy My SouL… just because beyond any given visuaL, or reLigion, or superficiaL reaLity, I can get what was being said by The WaiLers in this song… “I’m happy inside, aLL of the time. Can’t you see, why won’t you beLieve me? Oh DarLing, darLing, I’m caLLing, caLLing. Satisfy My SOuL.”

I’m Bob in this song, and the background singer/ dancers, and the Band. No video necessary. smiLe.

“PoLLution is aLL around me. My soLution Lies there in cLear air.”

“… is it a crime, that i stiLL want you, and I want you to want me too. TeLL the truth about it.”

Can you see?

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Who was speaking and who was Listening?

-shiLa iris,
I can feeL you in my core, beLieve it or not.

Rayshawn Armstrong

You sound sure…

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She had a right to choose her husband carefuLLy, by God she was gifted “free wiLL.” … or by Nature, or by the Universe, or by ALLah, or Jesus (however you need to say it to understand)…

… it was her vocation to choose, to ascend in her attractions, and not be drugged down. By mis-understandings, kicks to the crouch, she no Longer needed to sink into the immoraL behaviors of the forLorn, of her forLorn seLf.

If she was doing it, if she was choosing it, it was a means to an end. The end is aLways the beginning… I’m getting back to my roots. and “she” is me.

And I am her. I’m nothing at aLL, but Spirit. The journey is in the Spirit.

A sentence from my favorite book…

She had a wiLL to try out every stratagem to see what changes wouLd be necessary
under what conditions, what changes in the paths of the hunt for what different, larger, swifter or sLyer animaLs…

TransLation:
She was determined to experiment with different strategies to discover the necessary changes for hunting various types of animals, whether they were larger, faster, or more cunning.

She wanted every hunting principLe extended to her. Every reLigion understood.

I cannot condemn you for where you stand, I just want to know that you understand.

shila iris

… and furthermore,

Then, when ShiLa was possessor of the art of hunting she further discomfited her teachers by reminding them aggressive hunting is AGAINST “our way”… that the proper use of hunting skiLLs shouLd be for haLting the aged Lion seeking human prey in its dangerous impotence, for stopping the wiLd hog prowling about the growing farm, for teaching the sideLong hyena to keep it’s distance, NOT for wanton pLeasure.

Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah

Waking State… reLative truths, imaginary truths, AbsoLute Truth

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… she carefuLLy watches her speech, Lest she wound those who are not yet ready to hear and profit by her veracious observations.


Who do I need to be to engage you?

– shi La I ris

Eye Contact

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The Presence without form, the Voice with neither tone nor sound.
Do not Look for proof. Listen to the siLence. p.144

shiLa iris

SoLar System

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He took time to get it right
What does that mean? Hmmmm.

… that I Lay on my Left arm
and he Lay on his right, beside me,
we faced one another
SiLentLy he stared… siLentLy I stared…

I was patient.
I onLy spoke when necessary…
I became his patient.
He had to figure out why I was so sick
which meant he had to figure out the cause of his own dis-ease

I Let time stand stiLL for a moment,
so that he couLd see…

I chanted siLentLy in the depths of my being, cheer-Leaded
taLked in the soft and soLemn voice of a mother, even reminded him of his Father…

“you got this, you can do it, study, Listen, study, Listen,
Learn to read, tap into your sLeep, wake up.”

He created time
He Learned how to Listen to me,
even when my Lips weren’t moving.

He Learned how to hear me so weLL that
geneses, reveLations and epiphany’s cLairvoyantLy
began to move him… in a path, right towards me.

He stopped hoLding back.

He Learned to unfoLd himseLf inside of me,
with no contact, but very near
Touching is beyond the physicaL body,
so he Learned how to move me
because to TOUCH is to move energy,
to manipuLate time and space

Looking into my eyes, he studied himseLf
he Learned that I had eyes aLL over my body,
every orifice, every opening was an eye

He knew aLL the things that I wanted to say, needed to say
So, he danced, two-stepped in my fLow, with this divine knowLedge

He waited for nothing, the moment was now
he jumped in the deep end to retrieve his own femininity,
which was me… isn’t this what a wife is?
Isn’t that how you save a Life? Save yours?
Isn’t a husband the extreme of my own mascuLinity?

I am married to my heaLing seLf, myseLf heaLed
my mascuLinity, my femininity in baLance, Like a trinity…
the HoLy Spirit is an intravenous drip of experience Living inside of me,
the other side of me, the side of me that you cannot perceive with an iris (be quiet)

I was gratefuL, at peace.
He said, “you are so Loud!”
and my Lips weren’t moving at aLL,
and I was wearing aLL bLack.
the coLor of our Universe, standing stiLL.

he said I was screaming, whispering
saying everything and nothing at aLL …

But, I onLy spoke when necessary,
though, in his mind, I was constantLy speaking
constantLy teLLing him the truth, quietLy,
showing him the other side of the Moon, taking him so cLose to the Sun

to God,

for without knowing this Source presence in the center of the Earth,
without being aware of THE thing which we aLL orbit …

He’d have to find it, he’d have to see it,
he’d have to remember GOD, Like in aLL the Legends and in aLL the myths.

QuietLy, I waited
as he re-membered God.

I’d find it hard to beLieve, that a person could ever truLy Love me,
without Loving and knowing the eLements that unfoLD inside of them.

I know the story of God’s existence
on aLL the continents, in aLL the Languages.
I’ve been Listening. I Listen
(in the smoke, to the cLouds)
God is many things, on many PLanets, in aLL the gaLaxies,
God is aLL the Suns, and aLL the Moons, every star,
in many forms, but with no form at aLL, nameLess…

no face, just omni presence, the greatest gift,
aLL-encompassing, spinning around.

I am spinning too..

I can hear her.
In siLence…

in a crowded room.
I can hear Him.

JusLisen.

* by shiLa iris *

He took time to get it right.
What does that mean?

Time is but a moment, it took him a moment.

“I know God, everything is a fLash.”

P.S. … Let me whisper this to you, in the voice you can hear:

Waves when we Tooooouch, rippLing in,
soft on the mouth, sweeter than…
I need to Lay out, Sun on my faaaaaace,
need aLL your Loooooove, right now,
don’t need to wait …

start with my hand, on your skin
onLy a touch, and we get into it
don’t need to rush, it never endddddds.

it is my vocation to turn your insides out…
you gotta reaLLy know God to understand this… don’t you know?
The gravity of it aLL... crescent to fuLL.

Each step towards me,
is a step towards yourseLf. Don’t you know?

I decided that I wanted to know him.
He decided that he wanted to know me.
Attraction, truth, makes he and I stand stiLL.
We move.

> Life is a Lot of numbers, a Lot of aLgorithms <

WeLcome.

Water in My Heart

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Ritual Purification

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Enumerating the offenses committed,
in ignorance or awareness,
I vomit my sins

…cleansed.

Shila Iris

Genesis

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Too sleepy to stay awake,
too tired to go to sleep.

I’m almost willing to let go, although…

Shila Iris +

Everywhere, the human mind races
Everywhere the heart beats fast, even when it’s steady.

You say you’re awake, but I know, you’re still sleeping.
Rest well.

I Know…

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I want what I need.

Shila Iris

… so close to understanding, so close to understanding, so close to understanding…
the center, the Source.

Reject the extremes. Balance.

You don’t have to ask when you know. Be real silent.

He knows.

Osiris, future husband, in chronological order, superseding … in time, Anno Domini

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I may never see you again,
at least until I die, Christ-like,

but in every Life.

In every life,
come say hello, for our understanding will always grow
and, if you’re silent enough, you’ll recognize me.

We’ll sip Sauvignon Blanc, skate,
listen to music and reproduce,
but we’ll stay sober,
cuz sober reveals the truth.

In time.

Shila Iris