voice of inspiration

 

This long-running soap opera

we call human life

 

;

 

Random acts of sharing

I would like to be a kindness

but I don't know if a gift

or an inconvenience

in the eye of the receiver

 

;

 

Authentic me is a big of an enigma

I never know what to say

until I do

 

;

 

 

Who is out there expressing

the people's rage?

Feeds on grievance to shit out

propagations of hate, to

make the case, raise up the energy

pushed down from shame

we refuse to face?

Who aspires to be that voice

that inspires?

 

;

 

If we could let ourselves be

easily, naturally kind to ourselves

and each other, the vast miasma

that plagues us

would dissipate, disappear

 

;

 

Carter was always being criticized

for not somehow being omnipotent,

as if after Nixon we expected perfection. 

Reagan was lauded far and wide,

for ruining our burgeoning democracy

in favor of creeping plutocracy. 

It's all in the spin.

 

;

 

kind of like that idea of needing attention,

any attention, so bad attention is good --

needing human connection,

so connecting through hate

 

;

 

the vast lack of value given in our consumer

society to social bonds, which is killing us

 

 

;

 

two warring parties can not possibly

represent the complexity of the American electorate

yes, we need civil and constructive debate --

involving all of the stakeholders

we need to start that habit from our earliest educations,

including the habit of respect for ourselves

and each of our others

 

;

 

 

So very many ruined lives

so some very wealthy people

can accumulate a few pennies more

 

 

2/12-24/23