I want to tear the roof up off this house
I’m feeling claustrophobic
I haven’t seen a star in weeks
It helps me place myself
When I’m swimming with the current
Change in an instant
Avoidance of pain
What used to attract you revolts you
Measure your words
Don’t spill a drop
The vibrations rattle on for eternity
The benefit of doubt
Is a huge amount
Even living 30 years
I’m still wrong
Most of the time
There is almost always
A good reason
But almost always
We can’t guess it
Open mouth, insert foot
It never hurts to ask
With an open mind
My legs are dead weights
I lay immobile
My cat on my chest
My partner and witness
A few easy breaths
From long black bliss
I had a revelation today about sharing knowledge with other people. If what you are saying really is the truth, you don’t have to convince anyone. You are telling them what they already know. The theory is that we all have an innate recognition of truth. You can actually feel this when you read a passage of well-written poetry or literature, or when you listen to a moving speech or a heart-felt song. There is a trend in social media that criticizes people for being generally stupid. It is true that we live in a society that tolerates and even promotes ignorance, but I believe that all people are born with the ability to at least recognize if not tap into absolute truth/knowledge.
What this means is that if what you are saying is truth, it will be recognized as so, and will stand on its own two feet. You don’t have to try so hard.
Pulling from all directions
Gathering enough strings
To make a sturdy rope
As I climb the tree
The hard way
I weave them together
Let the scrawny pieces fall
When I get further up
I’ll hang my rope
So others can climb with ease
Meanwhile
I toil on with joy
Light puppets
Gliding over the planet’s streets
Columns of white-gold energy
Walking human corn dogs
A fistfight on the bus
Is rare news and a tragedy
What is there to gain
Being calm as the world
Struggles in ignorance?
Which one of us needs to learn to be quiet?
Continuing to ride the train
Here I wobble, there I wobble
The roller coaster ride of life
One wheel on the tracks
A seatbelt comes loose
I hang on through
Sickness
And exhilaration
"Equality means a quiet and unmoved mind and vital, it means not to be touched or disturbed by things that happen or things said or done to you, but to look at them with a straight look, free from the distortions created by personal feeling, and try to understand what is behind them, why they happen, what is to be learnt from them, what is it in oneself which they are cast against and what inner profit or progress one can make out of them…"
-Sri Aurobindo, The Integral Yoga
Desire and passion
Seeds of unhappiness
How can we desire
Without personal gain?
If passion so moves you
Create for humanity
Lift others up
With your time and talents
Let them realize
The power of many
Expressed in one
Dazzle them with humility
Astound them with grace
Let them feel only joy
Let your love light the way
Skating downhill on a fast board
Re-tucking my credit cards into my pocket
Hoping no one notices
Running over a child’s toes
Sorry’s not good enough
The old lady gets bumped on the way
Haunted by a 2-headed siamese demon
Looking forward to the next high
With his pants down
He moves into my loft
Violence ensues
I’m thrown over the balcony
I return in a fury
He bites, I scratch, I beat him down
Until there are 2 of them
I’ve forgotten to love
In the midst of my fear
And in doing so, revealed my mortality
I flipped the switch
In my dark heart
And the demons became sweet cherubs under my fists
I released my grip
And stroked their foreheads
I bathed them in love, ashamed but forgiven