| "Little Fly, thy summer's play. My | | | | experience what I believe to be true. I know |
| thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a | | | | that there are many deaths associated with |
| fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? | | | | flies in third world nations, and around the |
| For I dance and sing, till some blind hand | | | | world. It has been documented that these |
| shall brush my wing. If thought is life and | | | | pests carry life threatening diseases. But |
| strength and breath, and the want of thought | | | | who is creating the disease? The fly or me? |
| is death, then am I a happy fly, if I live, | | | | |
| or if I die. | | | | Blake mentions the imagination as being a |
| | | | real part of my existence. Perhaps if I |
| William Blake was born in 1757. He was a | | | | thought about the fly in a different way, the |
| British poet, visionary, painter and print | | | | fear and threat of it, may no longer be |
| maker. His work was not recognized during his | | | | threatening. Peaceful existence with all |
| life time, but he is considered to be one of | | | | life is possible if I believe there is no |
| the 100 greatest Britons, by a BBC poll | | | | separation between us, only contrast in |
| conducted in 2002. His philosophical | | | | diversity. I can co-exist in a productive |
| creativeness is inspiring and revealing. As | | | | state with flies, bees, snakes, you name it, |
| Blake said; " The imagination is not a state, | | | | if I understand that we are all consciousness |
| it is the Human existence itself." | | | | connected in the web of consciousness, that |
| | | | is connected to All There Is, Love. This |
| It is not easy to consider myself a fly. As | | | | means I can live without fear if I allow |
| Blake points out, I spend most of my time | | | | myself that innate ability to feel the love |
| around them trying get rid of them, or kill | | | | in all life forms. |
| them. The fly has no resemblance to me, it | | | | |
| only represents fear and sickness in my mind. | | | | Fear makes my world a different place. It |
| I have been taught that it is a creature that | | | | separates me from who I am. I project that |
| can harm me. It does portray the separation I | | | | separation on other life forms in order to |
| feel with the life forms that co-exist in my | | | | survive, because I fear the illusion of |
| world. It seems I fear nature in many ways | | | | death. I have the free will to choose. Fear |
| because I allow myself that belief. I accept | | | | or love are my choices. In love, flies are |
| what has been taught over the years and | | | | lovable. In love, I am a fly. |