Steadfast Eternal

Steadfast devotion
To letting go of emotions
To letting go of ego
And any need for lotion
Not needing to impress
Or ever be the best
For all you are is you are all
Not standing short nor standing tall
Forget whence came your wherewithal
And ever know the eternal

 

Chaos Theory

The boat rocks
With the putting on of socks
With the wearing of shoes
Begins the whole deluge
A butterfly floats hither
The hurricane now differs
The wearing of these pants
Alters the whims of chance
She stopped to have a chat
When I'd worn the yellow hat
The day the coffee stained my shirt
Was the day she left Earth first.

Do the heavens follow these random rules?
Star systems scoffing at us astronomical fools
Not meaning to be either callous or cruel
Night sky simply fizzing delight bejeweled
Not disconnected from the bubbles in this Sprite
Light as witness to all neither wrong nor right

Twisting and writhing in cavernous dark
I look for order in chaos so stark
I look for order in chaos remarkable
I look for order in chaos so stark

I look for order in a chaos 

10 Years On

Everyday awareness  

Take me to my highness  

Putting down the weapons  

Of my mental blindness  

Let me feel the bliss  

Of a day to reminisce  

Letting down my guard  

Forgetting my to-do list  

Leaning into pain  

And learning, each refrain  

As decades pass by faster  

And each year links life's chain  

I feel myself much wiser  

To know I'd be a liar  

Not to see that 10 years on  

These words will seem much triter  

And from that perch in time  

May I treat my follies kind  

And return to that innocence-  

Life not repeating but set to rhyme:  

Of one who knows but not quite so much  

As one day on, and on, til all is dust.  

All You Are is Pretty Words

All you are is pretty words

Quicksilver touch, watery allure

Turtle shell head down demure

A heart so flawed to seek the pure

 

All you are is pretty words

Oceans rising, you stay submerged

Nod, acquiesce, you concur

Go with the flow, you say for sure

 

Pockets full of time without a spur

Where do you point, to what refer?

To follow the leader is to follow the herds

Meekness has brought you bleak rewards

 

Hanging back not moving towards

All you are is pretty words

Breaking the News: The Apathy of World Affairs

A people passed

From these guys to

Those guys

Millions marauded-

Persons-

I don’t mean the

Billions in

Whose currency again?

All I do is flip through the channels

Of carousel scenes of chaos

A life plucked from a plane

By the force of desperation

Dropping onto tarmac

A thousand feet below

For all of us to see

How naked of dignity

In life and

In death

An entire people can be.

And what to us?

Popcorn spectacle

Watercooler talking point

Third world "hell-hole"

After "hell-hole"

These are the others

We could never know

Hidden in our 'sights'

Living in the shadow

While the one's we all appoint

To run these world affairs

Couldn't really give a damn

Don't really even care.