CONFIDENCE!

CONFIDENCE 

Confidence never comes to you,

You must go and find it.

It is hiding in your Fear.

Go get it already!

JUST SAYIN

 History is full of recurring injustices and nations change their leadership and style of governance again and again yet the same greed, dishonesty and inequalities reoccur. I am convinced  There never will be a significant change in the way we humans interact with one another and the planet until we individually change at our own core. When we begin to take orders from the center of our hearts instead of the jagged edges our fears, our brilliance will build cultures and communities and whole countries like we have only been able to dream of. Feeling connected to it all, knowing this deeply to be true, using the brilliance of our minds in service to our compassion for one another...this is the only way to change the world. From the inside out each and every one of us. What are we waiting for?

COMPASSION

COMPASSION

There is no evil in the world,

Only wounds and fear.

Our hearts are battered

and our love is twisted 

and our best intentions

often wasted.

We ache

from the hurt

 of not knowing 

how to love ourselves

or others.

We take 

whatever it takes

to ease our pain,

get us thru another day

all the while waiting and praying for rescue,

Light will blaze forth

And burn off our illusions

Revealing, at last,

Those great white wings

Of our angel-selves.

Oh I am such a sucker

For chick-flicks,

Tear-jerkers,

Drama…

Loss happens,

Tragedies strike,

Compassion arises.

Compassion.

Sets us apart from the animal

(in us)

Lets us take part,

In all of life.

We cry for the sick infant,

The abandoned puppy,

The bullied boy,

The soldier who does not come home.

We cry from compassion.

We cry from our God-Part,

Compassion reminds us

Of that deepest truth;

We are all connected,

All of life is connected.

The wind from the words I speak

Changes the weather in China.

Powerful words,

Thoughts, intentions,

Oh yes!

Strange beliefs..

Who cares,

We might ask?

I care, you care,

Hidden in yourself

This huge caring spirit

Cries at times

For no apparent reason.

Your divinity may be in shadow,

Your divinity is often in shadow.

Your divinity roars against

All your smaller ideas

Of who you think you are

And what you think you want.

You want nothing

Ever,

But to embrace, express

And celebrate your divinity

In this,

The only moment of your life..

Otter

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CHANGE?

You say you want change?

Then be like the hopping flame of a candle

trying to leap out of itself.

You say you want to grow?

Then leap out of yourself into the invisible unknown-

Only then will you realize

just how large you really are!

THE SUN S FINE

 But the Sun is Fine

The sky is purple from poisons,

The water an oily green,

Trees are bent and withered,

Rivers and soil bleed.

My friends are colored black or white,

 ( yellow, red, brown?)

The rich are bloated blue from decadence,

The homeless mute and out of sight.

The ancient ones are cast away,

The youth literally lost in virtual reality,

The earth and all our hopes are twisted together

Like an unwieldy ball of yarn. 

The north is red faced with shame,

The south red necked with ignorance,

The women indigo from the exhaustion 

of having to remain looking young, 

The men drunk on money, sex and sports,

And no one knows who to trust anymore. 

The animals are frightened, 

The plants would flee if they could.

The dogs are fighting endlessly,

One bad and one is good.

But fear not!

The sun is reliably brilliant 

Sending us nothing but warmth and light.

We shall adapt, we always do, 

This is the dark before a new dawn.

The world will become as we dream it to be.