when nothing matters

 

 

 

Work back from a clear

and consistent desired outcome

to find a path from here to there.

 

 

 

Focus on what pleases,

feels good, the pleasantries

of everyday, the shining beams

resplendent on each moment.

 

 

 

Politics comes and goes.

Background drama to distract

the masses.

What matters is business -- whatever

is necessary for the masters to profit,

to own and control the wealth of

the world.

 

 

Just another colorful character

in the vast parade

 

 

 

How dare such outsiders callously

intrude on our personal lives.

They would not stand for such

abrogation from us.

 

 

 

It's not the people in your life

who did this to you.  It was people

who know what they did and neither

know or care about you.

They were not motivated by malice,

but by greed, the worship of profit

above all.

 

 

 

Can't read/watch all this escalating

rhetoric all day long without losing it,

exploding?  Stop!  Just stop.  Go out,

enjoy the day, have some harmless fun.

 

 

 

Trauma, ghostly twin in birth

underlaid through blood over ages

The mother may be unaware of

this painful legacy

her child can not escape

 

 

 

realize we all have tribulations and

issues; no one here gets out alive or

unscathed, so do what works to keep

you sane within the chaos

 

 

 

 

lonely? feeling inadequate, outside?

have you tried reaching out to the lonely,

imperfect, yearning souls all around?

 have you found a way to say:     

"I'm another.  We ought to get together

and have some fun!"

 

 

 

 

we can always look to our own

shared imaginations of the world

we yearn for to decipher a route for

the path from here to there

Too much pain

Nothing left to gain

No blame

May as well get out

and dance in the rain

 

 

 

6/4-16/23