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BETTER DAYS

Maybe, looking back,We will see this as a start:When we saw life wasn’t for ourselvesAnd learned to give our hearts. Maybe it’s the darknessThat conditions us for light.Perhaps the wonder of new dayLies just beyond this Night. We can leave our thoughts at fear,Freeze ourselves in place.I prefer to think all thisPrecedes our better days. […]

BEFORE AND AFTER

            The worst part is waiting.  You don’t know until it starts.  You play it all in your head before it ever comes.  Some of it happens.  Some of it does not, but you see and play the contingencies, anticipating first contact, response, and follow-on actions before they ever rise.  It fires then wears your […]

HURT

            I didn’t sleep last night.  My mind wouldn’t rest.  I was hurt, not scared, just hurt.  I was disappointed to see how fast and rapid a society can turn, how in our age of modern wonders, the fear of catching anything remotely dangerous can make us look upon all as if lepers.  The parables […]

WHAT WE CHOOSE TO SEE

On days Man does his best to frame And shape our world as dark, Look truthfully, with eyes, and see Goodness all around.   Live the beauty.  Live the good. Watch them return, just as they should. Isn’t it interesting, our world becomes What we choose to see… “Our world becomes what we project and […]

SOLSTICE

With little note, the sky is changed. Light extends its time; And the longest darkness of our nights Now are days behind.   The change, it happens subtle, But that is all it takes To begin the cycle Where our world, again, will wake:   When life rises from the Earth, Spreads amongst the trees, […]

CHIMERAS

“…it is one of the fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms.  It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the earth.”               Chimeras are not real.  They never were.  The lion exists.  A goat is real, serpent too, but not the way Man […]