where selfishness and selflessness
combine, we like to call that "love"
Could the violence be
about
being taken
seriously?
Because it’s the extroverts’
world
I misunderstand the
difference
between popular and
propaganda.
It’s not a mental health
problem
-- it’s a self-entitled asshole
problem.
It’s not so much “white privilege”
as
white exception – being excepted
from
some kinds of
maltreatment
because you are one of
us.
But color is far from the only
characteristic
subject to
outcasting.
There are so many designated not
us
for every self-conscious group
and so many
punishments
for daring to exist.
Maybe the American Soul is
empty.
You, in other nations
--
How does your soul
feel?
Allowing, abetting, our home to
disappear,
too consumed in argument, in
rage,
to face responsibility for
oncoming reality?
If souls are part of an omniscient
Creator,
what do we offer?
Women aren’t weak – we’re
exhausted
from all the work we are expected
to take on
because we are
strong.
Sending out loving
intention
ripples arise within
turning mind to
heart,
to loving attention
that transforms
our thoughts and
actions,
our more examined
lives.
We have our own ways of
relating,
our own ways of succeeding and
failing,
how we were raised
motivations,
labor that needs to be
done.
Ever cast out
with no language to
understand
what happens in
there,
our out here,
trying to figure it out
--
my destiny
my quest
No where to go,
just legs, pavement,
rain.
Run, run, run
but there’s no journey’s
end.
So many means to end our
days.
Too little time to
waste
lashing out in mad
panic.
Worry and rage just get in the
way
of enjoying the gifts in still
living.
8/10-16/19
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