Is the collusion of snowflakes a blanket of ignorance that makes everything the same? Suffocate differences. The absence of color. Numbing pain. A blanket of cold appearing as warmth in desperate hands. Blood and bone beneath sheets of foggy ice. Freezing thoughts of comfort. A slow death. Sleeping betrayal. Yes. But. The sun comes out. Heat melts the eyes awakens the mind and stimulates the heart. Not all but some. Enough. To burn the blanket. Dissolving the carefully woven crystals arresting thoughts. Salvation. Self-preservation. In that light, that encouraging inferno, we cling to each other. We are one, the decrepit, the strong, the despairing, the hearty. There are no them—we—us. Just me.
Posts Tagged ‘truth’
I AM What I Do
Posted: January 4, 2018 in life lessons, METags: challenges, faith, family, learning, life, personal, self, thoughts, truth
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To Die And Live
Posted: December 1, 2017 in life lessons, METags: learning, memory, mind, personal, progress, self, spirituality, truth
Words from a dream skitter across wakeful thoughts
A heart beat before I’m dead
Every bad and all the good—relived
Pain and joy close, never touching
Moments in between to decide
And then it begins
Peace and lavender haze surrounds my floating soul
visons beyond feeling dance in the shadows
Living between breaths takes courage
I succeeded and failed well
Now what?
Intuitive Composers
Posted: November 25, 2017 in life lessonsTags: challenges, family, humanity, life, music, progress, self, truth
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
It’s the end of the world as know, I feel fine
That’s great, it starts with an earthquake
Birds, snakes, and aeroplanes
Lenny Bruce is not afraid
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs
Feed it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength
Ladder start to clatter with fear, fight down height
Wire in a fire, representing seven games
A government for hire and a combat site
Left of west and coming in a hurry
With the furies breathing down your neck
Team by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
Look at that low playing! Fine, then
Uh oh, overflow, population, common food
But it’ll do
Save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Dummy with the rapture and the revered and the right
Right
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam, fight, bright light
Feeling pretty psyched
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
Six o’clock, TV hour
Don’t get caught in foreign towers
Slash and burn, return
Listen to yourself churn
Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood letting
Every motive escalate
Automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a votive
Step down, step down
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh
This means no fear cavalier
Renegade steer clear!
A tournament, tournament, a tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives and I decline
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
The other night I dreamt of knives
Continental drift divide
Mountains sit in a line, Leonard Bernstein
Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs
Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom!
You symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right?
Right!
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it
It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
Songwriters: JOHN MICHAEL STIPE, MICHAEL E. MILLS, PETER LAWRENCE BUCK, WILLIAM THOMAS BERRY
© Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
Hate Is Hypnotic. Hate Kills Everyone.
Posted: October 2, 2017 in life lessonsTags: learning, life, personal, progress, religion, self, truth
What makes a person follow an entity who leads them onto the path of misery? Why do mothers and fathers choose to worship a god that puts its values before the love of family? Sounds more human than divine. Nature vs nurture. Experience vs command. Is there a line you won’t cross or will you die alone because that’s what’s been written. Religions have many personalities. I say personality because there are as many religious beliefs as there are humans. And those who don’t believe are included in the protein rich, spice riddled salad.
But let’s cut to the foundation of religious beliefs. You will only believe what you already accept as true. If you were abused and debased as a kid–authority is your enemy. If ten apologies after ten beatings keeps you in love and in place, bullies need to be understood. If you have been taught that wealth and entitlement makes you smarter and everyone else stupid, you will run a country as if the rest of us should be grateful for presence despite your lack of empathy and compassion or knowing what it’s like to struggle. It’s easier for some to discard their own ideas than to make a case for their own identity. It’s too much work. And it’s not like they’re alone in their beliefs. There’ll always be someone who validates them. Same mentality. Thinking–not worth the effort. The mob mentality.
People kill for their religions. People kill at the instruction of the voices in their heads. People kill because some ignorant human thinks the best way to run a country is to create a symbolic enemy. All religions have blood soaked into the pages of their books of scripture. Blood. Money. Power. Maybe at one time, there was a religion that took our need to dance naked in the rain as an expression of peace, or encouraged loved between adults, who promoted the health and happiness of children. I–for one–would love to read that book.
You can lay bigotry, hatred, racism, open condemnation at your god’s feet, blame it on your disgust of the world around you. But guess what? The rest of us see through the divine veil you place over your heads. We know you are hate. And in the end Love will defeat you. And We won’t have to lift a finger to win.
Silhouette Of A Soul
Posted: September 8, 2017 in life lessonsTags: family, learning, life, mind, personal, progress, relationships, self, truth
Sometimes I turn to pain for comfort, darkness to cleanse and numbness to escape it all. And then I fall. Panic sets in. I reach for the closest heart and fall faster. There’s no room for laughter when tears fall and the life lived fades into the past. Looking forward through a pane of foggy glass. I capturing glimpses of what could be, at the moment, because a breath changes everything. His hand. Her shoulder. The innocence of a child. Fury and blood. What does it all mean? He kills. She kills. One a hero. The other a villain. Which is which? Do we know the difference anymore? My life is my reach, my sight, what I hear, who I touch. Not always good. Not perfect. My goal is simple. To make progress.
Escape The Familiar
Posted: August 15, 2017 in life lessonsTags: challenges, learning, life, personal, relationships, truth
Born with flesh of hardened steel and a sharp tongue
I told the imposter to leave
He was blood, but it poured over us instead of through us
A poison generations long
killed who he should have been
Hate possessed my father, and put demon in his place
I stood before him, he who wanted respect without earning it
he who hated us, blamed our mom, the breath of life for his miserable existence
and spent every waking moment sharing the misery
Mom is gone; deceased
Father alive: estranged
I have a family
I am happy
I am still shield and sword
I still protect my family
When the good hate, evil is at the controllers.
Absent Heart…Absent Father
Posted: April 9, 2017 in life lessonsTags: family, learning, life, memory, mind, personal, relationships, self, thoughts, truth
I think of you… sometimes when I’m lost
Wandering in the haze you created for me so long ago
We’re in the same room, but hearts apart
I believed you… in you
Until you proved me wrong.
Showed me your blood wasn’t strong
I asked you
Eye to eye who are you?
You lied.
I knew that was your reality
But I believed you…in you
Why not?
You said the words I wanted to be true
I thought of you the other day
Feeling sad
Surrounded by love
Two roles not filled
One by choice
The other…
I think of you…sometimes when I’m wandering
In the same room where your heart beats silent
Hoping one day you prove me right
To believe in yourself
Make that your reality
Why not?
It’s better to be surrounded by love
I’m not wrong
What Little We See
Posted: March 26, 2017 in life lessonsTags: humanity, learning, life, personal, relationships, truth
Though I try with every hesitant breath to be myself, there are times I do escape behind a mask. Sometimes I do not want to be seen, heard or engaged. Observing the world around me offers unfiltered insight and raw emotions. You can see much behind a mask, when they don’t see you peering out of its eyes….mouth. Doesn’t matter. Transformation happens within the span of a heart beat. If you blink you may miss the shine of a friend’s eye or the frown distorting your brothers face, in that moment when they think no one is paying attention.
When its time to lose the mask, I am seen and heard and engage with heart, sensitivity and genuine understanding. When we stand in the crowd as ourselves we don’t seem the same, but when we adorn our mask and watch, connections are obvious.
Meditative Writing
Posted: March 23, 2017 in life lessonsTags: health, humanity, learning, personal, relationships, truth
I love my life. My mind is full. My moods swing up and down, feeling the thrill and fear, but will never stop the motion. I read hate and cry. I read lies and shout in frustration. To free your mind is to free-fall into everything. Anything is possible. I fuel love and starve negative seeds. It is my way. I will die high before lowered into the ground. Life is everything death is a transition we all forget.
Mel Evers wonders about it all 