Even as the Sun seemed to melt
into the sea, the sirens of humanities’ moans, the glossary of deeds broken
from their throne, I knew none of this was much longer to closet my emotions
from their home. Day unto day, I felt
myself slipping away. The promises
misspent, the nobility never meant, the height of awakening still lay yet just
beyond the movement of my eyes…ever present, dissecting, directing, cool and
unwilling this Life unmade for me was the distance from where I stood and where
the sea met with cooling refreshment the goodness of a day, twisting and
turning, at some points the sound of the slavish burned my skin, only to heal
and die again.
Yet this time, this passing,
this Eternal thread lifted and held my youth beyond the torment of any day’s welcome
phrase. Still garmented in shreds of
stains and nameless names, I knew I would look again. Ever curious and calling, I felt my Self
driven from the stacks of those waiting also to be, to have their chance, their
promising dance, and to resonate at last, among the named and nameless who had
already had their turn, stretched between wooden frames upon whose canvas
(however bent) turned and coiled and pulled once more, hoping from some
Lottery, LIFE would begin again; and there would be no callous tongued rogue
whose passion lay only in spinning lies of the patched and hatched worn out contrived lives of liberty and trust and love, even a Hoped
for Forgiveness from the up above.
I turned the cooling box high
and let my lost and losing Spirit come to rest, however that might be
best. The beginning of an end always
felt just before – like the fleeting butterflies all atwitter in a stomach
whether summer or winter, boiling oceans or hard, cracked and broken clayed soil
became easily the bleary scoped wishes of the hands wet with soap and suds and
dishes plenty. The erosion of such
common calls made me want to be young and in favor of the One. I was and am an empty vessel, emptied out
along some lonely way, a practice I
had come to court for nothing more than what it may.
Renderings I had come to introduce
to the Light, now had the plush and jaded coy wrapped around some unhealed
pattern in me. Perhaps, as I have come
to…perhaps Life and Living was just that and how much more can we make an
attack for huddling humans, still scraping the sides of the bark that had just
a moment ago been the meal we grew to yearn for instantly as conscious we
became. (damn hard to sleep when the
stomach scratched and tore at the emptiness went on – if only able were we to
swallow a seed of corn, and somehow seen to it that it lacked for nothing as
time grew short and a green snap of a thing sprung from deep inside and we
began to make pictures in our head of how long it had been since we had been
fed. How long? I wondered.
How unkind was Nature to her own, even with brilliant soldiers of Sun
Flowers grown, in allegiance raised their open faces, to turn to the sky blue,
with wonder not quite dead, we held this hope deferred in disappointment, in
desire and stubborn trust. We are the
Hope’s past; her expectant plenty in a pool of Kindness cast in Future’s
deployed many.
Should we deplete our own
precious stores designated to know more so that we may not just hinder the way
so callously thrust upon all of us, the children we birthed, to leave behind
more agony with no sightings hastily torn from the page marked ONE? For then all would be undone, the pain and
struck through lineage divined some.
Move to enjoyment, contentment, an inexperienced Happiness, a bumble bee
too busily feasting to care that you have lost your sight for a moment and were
napping. That is indeed a further land
than we can stand; we mortals are the most fragile of all Nature’s tuning. The ceiling of our dreaming detailed in gold,
the throb of romantic love, sweet words on a tune were strung and in one
another’s eyes there was nothing left for the wise. Sailing, climbing, skiing, diving (water or
air or cave), this Good Earth will never reveal her secrets to those whose
interest is not interested in her Heart, her storehouses of Love.
Come, rest awhile with me. Lean your body strong against the weeping
willow tree, on the banks of a pond, secretive and full with spells of longing,
waiting for truth that aches with beads of sweat upon your face. Deep within the mystical you, there’s a river
of riches only you can know or understand – they are as nothing to any other
man. You are the caretaker of the
treasures that no man can measure. The
foolish will find games to play, wishes to unfold, all purposeful to the artist
in you. Yet, you will not simply cast
away the rock upon the unexpected Bay; you have withstood the trails of
humankind, found survival through a path of Fire – and yearned to fulfill the
Desired. As castaway, others would point
to you and laugh at your folly; yet you convene the order of the disorderly
doctrine to which the Universes heed what others have been unable to discern.
Descending deserts, that only you and your sorely divined wisdom explore and
expand a Truth far removed from us Humans.
If you would set your foot to
the imprint of this rapidly abandoned, vacant (and meaningful), deceptively
eager inheritance, you will lock your Soul to the depths of an exiled soldier
who wanted nothing so much as to love and be loved, to lift up the fallen, give
attention to the disinherited, fill the winds with music attuned to the
precisely appreciated and understood groove that dwells in the misunderstood
Hearts of the broken spirited, excessively growing desperate and aloof.
Take into yourself that which is
sublime, evolving, enlarging compassionate and restorative Spirit of the Divine
that lives through you. Let your Self
become an opening for the Good, the Dedicated to Justice and become that which
you have absolved to be your Destiny, and ever and always, tenderly feel the movement
of your Song.
~rumorsofme~
(NOTE: And, remember, when you came into this world
that the cup was broken then broken; therefore why the somber, disconsolate and
disconnected? WE are here for one
another.
And there is as much to sing and
laugh and dance for and with; therefore, let you simply BE.)