Conditions

How easy it is to be
needlessly cruel
in a time
when greater kindness
is needed
at all points
on the path

Branches diverging
from the trunk
yet even
unseen fingers
reach out
grasping the dirt

Still Human

This longing
has never left

It remains closer
than ever

I can feel it
touch my cheek

a nail hard
against me

Still human
after all

these years

Pendulum

What does it take for us to change
what has seemed unchangeable?
How much must we suffer
before we look with honesty?
We all share in this shame and guilt.
We can be compelled but what
moves us to act?

Live and suffer for money.
Idol worship of fools and folly.
Man created and destroyed
by our own economy imagined.

Does not all of Man desire not
a place to live, but a home?

The mistakes we have birthed
have matured and birthed ones
of their own.

We search ceaselessly for answers.
They are here. They are here.
We have seen them and turned
them away but they are here.

Can we move towards a better union?

Caught between hope and
hopelessness.

Swing of a pendulum.

that which feeds

Your ego is hungry
Feed it
It's belly growls
It is becoming impatient
It doesn't care where you are
It wants
It craves
It needs attention
It needs affection

                             /

                                You're beautiful
                                You're amazing
                                You're creative
                                You're one of a kind
                                Everyone wants to know you
                                Everyone wants to be around you
                                Have you always been so amazing

Current Forms

Blooming flower at the edge of Winter
Your face basks in the chill of dawn
We gaze upon each other 
Many lives
Many forms ago
Yet we are unchanged
in our flowered essence 

Thoughts By An Actual Human.

Walk This Path With Me

The path of struggle is one we all must walk upon
in the course of our life. Struggle, hardship, falls
on us through the years by the sheer passage of
time if nothing else. We grow, learn, and adapt
from these lessons. We must see them as lessons
in order to foster growth. Some of our struggle is
self-inflicted. Those struggles cling to the very soul
of our being and force us to engage in deeply
personal reflection and evaluation in order to see
a way forward. Some of us struggle with addiction
to substance or reaction. Neither is good for the
body or soul. We must engage the deep thinking
mind to find our way through. Sometimes this
can only be achieved by reaching out towards
others. Knowing when to do so can be difficult
and a source of fear and judgement. Those who
love us will see us not as degraded beings but
as fellow humans attempting to ascend to a
higher state of being. This ascension need not
be anything intensely religious, though for some
it might be, but merely the fulfillment of a long
gestating path of growth.

Of Human Need.

We are but living dust. 

Many Lives

To live many lives
folded into this one
To understand the thoughts
of those unlike myself
To view the world
in ways I never could
To share heartache
that is not my own
To aspire to greatness
I have never felt
To believe in our ability
to change and grow
To become more loving
and compassionate
To learn and absorb
wisdom from the past
Open the book
Let the words find
your eyes
Let the pages live
in your mind
Let the world
renew itself in you

Transmission

Become a tower of transmission
Send out waves
of what is most needed
to heal the hurt
and lost parts of the souls
of many 
Become the sun
Open
Let the light 
pour forth

This Gift

Consciousness is such a strange gift
to have bestowed upon us

It often goes by unnoticed for many years

The day comes
                         and it always does
that we become aware of it

To be alive and to be
                                  aware
of this world

to know life and to know the finite
reality of the present

                                 acceptance

Beautiful
                As beautiful as any sight
in our natural world

Ascension

Let these days of Winter end Let us emerge in Spring
Let love rule Let us be the better selves we have always
known ourselves to be Let compassion reign Let us do
away with fear Let us live with greater understanding
Let us do away with our vice and weakness Let us live
more fully Let us love all women and men Let us look
upon each other as family Let us recognize the brevity
of everything Let us forgive Let us be the ones we need
Let us live in peace Let us not merely pray but act upon
the need for good deeds in this world Let us never cast
judgement without cause Let us bathe under the sun and
reclaim youth and vitality Let us grow freer and stronger
with each good deed Let us never succumb to darkness
Let us guide each other through the long nights of Winter
and it's frigid mornings Let us marvel at the first blooms
of Spring and drink deeply from the flowers of the field
Let us never forget the lessons we learn and remind our
selves of Let us be kind Let us be gentle Let us be strong
Let us be all things in alternating measure Let us be true
to the goodness of our nature Let us sing with one voice
Let us drown the darkness Let us embrace the moment
Let us marry the possibilities of the present Let us ascend
to a point from which all becomes clear Let us not create
new gods to worship Let us embrace nature Let us marvel
at the tides Let us rejoice in ritual through the forests Let us
bask in the warm stillness of the desert Let us dream under
the stars guiding us now and forever Let our hands touch
Let our lips meet Let love grow Let us be a better union
of humanity Let us pray in our own ways to someone or
no one at all Let us be the peace strength and compassion
we wish to see grow Let us join together Let us be Let us
be truly human Let us be the stewards of this home

Quote Me

Pain is a crucible through which 
all must pass. 

The sound of a crying child is 
proof of order in the universe.

Everything changes.
Everything must change. 

Fear is a Thing that is Hunting Me.

An inability to forgive 
demonstrates
An inability to move on. 

Hardwired for Kindness

If words are all we have 
we must give those away as well.

Hypocrisy
Is by and
Large
The rule of
Human existence

Even the good among us
Live with sin in our hearts.