Life is more alive
On the edge;
Like riding a bicycle,
Always moving and
Always searching for
Balance:
Living on
Some edge
Some axis,
Some plane,
Some interface;
Always needing balance,
Never able to close the eyes
To anything.
2015.07.09.1515
Life is more alive
On the edge;
Like riding a bicycle,
Always moving and
Always searching for
Balance:
Living on
Some edge
Some axis,
Some plane,
Some interface;
Always needing balance,
Never able to close the eyes
To anything.
2015.07.09.1515
How can I fail this moment?
How can I fail to live this moment?
How can I fail to acknowledge that eternity exists right now?
Yet, I do;
Hundreds of times a day
When I just don’t see it
That way.
2015.06.09.1725
Life is soon to blossom
With an intention all its own
Despite, and without regard
For, any actions which I may have
Shown to my liking;
I must have its same sap within me;
I must be a part of its root or its vine;
I must choose to move
With the way the wind blows; and
I must lose
All the inclinations of mine
That do not give birth
To the tomorrow
That the Eternal, the Creator,
The Spirit has within
The intimate confines of its mind.
Wind me up!
Set me on my way!
Do not give me reason
To see the light of another day
If I do not fit
Within the docile lines,
That It would draw
About Itself.
2015.04.14.0946
I heard
The disciple
Say to me…
Welcome,
Brother,
Sister;
Here, there is
No saint without a past and
No sinner without a future;
Just keep trying
To go first to God
Before turning
To self,
To others,
To things or
To places;
Now, be at peace,
Your sins are forgiven.
2015.03.31.2002 ©
Silence must fight
For the ear of each one of us
Most of the time,
Because most of the time
Each one of us
Is fighting
With the noise
Of years of sin;
Our own and
All the men and women
Who come before us.
That noise must die.
Those people must die.
They must become silent
So that each one of us
Has a chance at the silence
For ourselves
Before we must die.
Yes, only an Etenal word
Can be heard
Through the ages
Afresh and anew
That each soul might learn
To fight the noise,
To fight the sin,
To fight to find
Silence for itself
Within.
2015.03.01.0010 ©
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Some days
I cannot find
A single memory
To give me pleasure or
To lighten the burden
Of today’s pain;
So I must run to pleasure
That is easy or simple on
The imagination
The body or
The brain.
A sunrise
Is such a convenience,
As long as the heavens allow;
It takes all the forces of
Yesterday’s darkness and
Wraps them
Within the glory of
Now.
2015.01.20.0726 ©