Teach them to fish
What helped you?
Why am I happy?
What should they know?
Finger on the pulse
Or out of touch
Orbiting too far
Or far too often
Worry breeds worry
Peace breeds peace
Stiff and stuffy
Or loose and useful

Who is going to step forward when their name is called?
Who will get off their high horse to be the bigger person?
It takes courage to see the world through another pair of eyes
To tolerate the hurt in others
Give them space so they can heal
It takes work to reach outside yourself
And take the hand of one who's fallen
The reward is in the vulnerability
The prize is the trust you gain
Trust is the land on which love is built
And love feeds the community

How much information do the clouds need
To know where to rain?
Why must we compute, compute, compute
Mothers are an evolutionary adaptation then
Or we might die as often as the clouds

One more chance to say it better
But you've set me off and now I just want to tear you apart and build a better man
There are no more excuses
I must proclaim clearly what is expected
But I'm sick of explaining the obvious
I'm tired of your twisted hollow words
Stop fucking talking to me
Get down on your knees
Family is a burden but who wants to come home to an empty house?

Sometimes it's hard to believe that we are all trying to protect the same country
It's not easy
Leaving freedom and bliss
For incarnation as a naked creature
Always fearful for its own survival
Defending and attacking on shivering legs
Clinging to familiarity
Fending off attacks both real and imagined
Shrewdly positioning for social status and acceptance
It's not really about healthcare, is it.

I slip into bed
Like my favorite pair of socks
The fluff hugging me in all the right places

Hoping my words today
Matched my intentions
I only get one lifetime to work with these gifts

Trigger happy

An Indian flute song came from my showerhead
How out of place it seemed in the city!
The pace here feels artificial
Unlike the native in the forest meadow
Sitting in the sunshine, while a bird flaps its wings
Until I remember the volcano
Or the ocean
But the volcano is forced
And the ocean is pulled
I suppose
Not unlike the people
Rushing around the city

How many times
We grieve what was lost
When it was never really ours at all

In an ever-changing world
Let your heart be at peace
Like the molten core releases heat
Add slowly turns to iron

Try again tomorrow
You must be so patient
Your loudest critic is yourself
She loves to run her mouth