SOUL WOUNDING
The soul weeps
I'm like an unseen storm
created to inform
I push you to conform
dictate to you the "Norm"
I work like chloroform
Empowered by Prince of the Air, I'm virtually, everywhere
I teach and feed all who will eat that they
don't have enough
can't get enough
won't be enough
are not enough
I hypnotize, proselytize, desensitize, commercialize, dramatize, patronize, romanticize, standardize, systematize, marginalize, demoralize with
lies
lies
and more lies
Till I'm internalized
I shatter tranquil silence
with endless noise and violence
dulling all the senses
removing all defenses
I steal purity, kill time and destroy peace
I advertise lust and greed as love and need, till you concede
I am false company, joy illusion, fake remedy, truth delusion
I have become your thought life, your love life, your whole life
I'm a conscience anesthesia
I am media
POEMS OF PROMISE
BRAVE
I seek you, in this empty place
This colorless, soundless, barren space
This grounding, stilling of all haste
The abdication of The Chase
To worship you, with open face
Expectant, waiting, full of faith
As I breathe in your quiet grace
Exhaling fearful thoughts away
Until my flesh bows and obeys
And my firm will, relents and caves
And my emotions are constrained
I counsel my soul how to wait
And hang on every Word you say
And cling to only what will save
As a great Anchor, holds me straight
While overcoming doubtful waves
I'm growing stronger,truer, brave.
SOUL SHAPING
the soul, redeemed
Mental Health
I am a gentle call
a Sensory Input Pause
to sip and slowly draw
a moment with deep awe
to purposefully stall
let time distractions fall
blow rush away, like straw
become alert and raw
your mind, capturing all
I am open eyes
seeing colors, shapes and size
shadows, hues
shading and brightness
details catching forms and likeness
I am open ears
absorbing all the sounds you hear
voices, birds and
ticking clocks
engines, music and raindrops
I am the sense of smell
aromas with a tale to tell
flowers, campfires
good food cooking
baby skin and perfume looming
I am tasting
taking in and savoring
sweet and sour
spicy, salted
liquid, solid, blessed chocolate
I am feeling
the flesh alive, receiving
warmth and coolness
softness, texture
ground beneath me, tension, pleasure
I am awakening of presence, deliberate attentiveness
an intentional "There-ness"
I am awareness
POEMS OF PROMISE
THE COAT
One day, I saw her
She wore her shame
Like a coat, in the summertime
Her regret was a flower in her hair
She was okay
- that's what she'd tell you every time
If you got close, she'd quickly turn away
Another day, I saw her
She was lighter, brighter
Head held higher
To my surprise
I'd never seen her eyes
Her coat was gone
That was the day
I took off my own coat.