We blaze through our days

With questions along the way

Wondering how to get by and make

Something that brings honor to our name

Little do we know when we start the run

That that’s not what it’s all about

Yet we courageously walk ahead

In the hope to leave a mark on our ancestral past

This is important to do for we stand here today,

Because of those in the rear view,

Whatever rights or wrongs you judged them with,

Our ancestors are the reason we are here,

Here to you, may be different from the person next door,

But this life, you see, is such a personally unique journey,

Comparison kills, But celebration for our wins,

Is what will help us remember the moments in life

That we stood tall despite it all,

So today self-author your life gone by,

Thus far,

Regardless of the number left your days,

Remember those moments you struggled yet fought,

For a fair shot at being the best at whatever role you had got,

Mom, pop, sis, bro, friend, wife, teacher, soul mate,

Was there a time when you could have thrown your marriage, or friendship under a bus?

But worked through the pain to build it back up,

Or was there a time, you stepped away from abuse

When you realized, well, what more could I loose?

Or maybe you remember a moment of dancing in the rain,

Or playing in the snow when everyone told you to come back home,

Remember that time when you had a sip of wine with your love by your side,

On a dark winter’s night,

And when you stepped back to observe all the ways,

You made it through your difficult days

Even if you complained,

You made it and tried and that is a win for life,

So forgive yourself for the days you wish you did more,

The days, done by forever more,

You did what you knew best,

Even if what you knew best was a mess,

Love yourself, as you close your eyes,

Remember, where you came from is where you return,

Our beloved home,

This journey is a beautiful ride,

A ride back home.

With love,

A friend.

In light,

For an enteral lifeline.

This poem was written to clean my soul

From the cobwebs,

That lingered,

Here within,

Here in my Home.

I wake in a moment of surrender

Waiting to see

That which needs me

A love

A purpose

A dream

Family

Hope

Work

Maybe I’ll bleed to

Keep them all at ease

All or nothing…

It is in our unraveling that

The wonder and awe lives

It blooms with each step

Each one a little more intriguing

Than the last

We scream, we cry, hope, beckon and gaze

We dream, fight, laugh and laze,

We live in the fullness of it all,

For those moments in love,

And out of it,

For our becoming,

Is never complete without

It all..

So as we start to fall into grace

Let it engulf us and take us into our better days

That what I know now, I did not know then,

And what I seek now, is well…

The nowness in my days,

I laugh as I say that for the silliness in the words,

But it’s the simplest of explanations,

That can shape our world,

For you see we’ve come so much to trust the facts of our world,

We’ve been blinded to the depth of truth

That lie before our very eyes,

It the intuitive soul we’ve quietened over time,

Wake up! Into nowness I say,

Let's ground within our souls,

I’ll learn a little more as I trust in the unknown.

The rage in my mind softens through words with time,

when my poetry takes over,

Like a river it flows,

I feel it’s loudness in the urgency to take control,

When I know not how to voice the truth I feel,

It steadies in the stillness,

It’s firm when it knows,

Not through pure intelligence oh no,

but through tapping into that divine zone,

When my message can be crafted to speak

To the masses,

Then,

It’ll be kind and firm to draw your thoughts to yearn,

So what do we see today,

The split of the conscious, unconscious and unaware,

No it is not their fault.

These times are trying on humanity, but we can choose the way we want to deal with it, to use our mind to make our own conclusions on the state of world affaires and look to action positive change.

Poetic Flow below:

And today we sit,

Head bent away from the sun,

Wondering, waiting, wishing,

For that day to come,

Where we step back out for a run,

I was told to stay out of politics,

To save my soul,

Little did I know, in my lifetime,

We’ll be rolling in the heart of 1984,

We’d be locked in,

Talking about a death toll,

Mainstream media, social media,

Screens feeding our minds,

Who stops to choose which lines are right,

It’s all too quick,

The subliminal lies,

We praise those draped well in a PR clock,

Paying little attention to the voices that make it past,

The gates of the controlling fakes,

Lets stop and ask then,

What does it take?

For a nation, humanity or situation,

To have people asking more questions

At what’s at stake?

Our planet will go on you see,

Means nothing should we stay or go,

If we choose to stay and raise our voices

Through the kind hearted,

Conscious doers and be-ers,

Yeh that right a balance in our time,

Warrior and monk,

Ah two collide,

Scared a union,

Let’s not hide.

Gratitude is something we need to remember to practice to center us and bring us back to peace especially during troubled times.

Writing, thinking or saying why you are grateful out loud daily helps us recognize that there are many things we can be grateful for, that we often forget about.

Most often the things or people we take for granted are the very things that shake us to the core once taken away, and these are the very areas we need to look and find gratitude; for we have gotten so accustomed to their pretense in our life, we forget to acknowledge them.

Much love.

In all stories, we can identify two aspects that are always prominent: Eros (one's feelings) and Logos (one's ability to rationalize these feelings.)

Eros:

The myth of Eros and Psyche is probably one of the best love stories in classical mythology. Eros, son of Aphrodite, was the personification of intense love desire and he was depicted throwing arrows to people in order to hit their heart and make them fall in love. Psyche, a beautiful maiden, personifies the human soul. In fact, she is the symbol of the soul purified by passions and misfortunes and who is, from now on, prepared to enjoy eternal happiness.

In the love story of Eros (Cupid in Latin) and Psyche (meaning "soul" in Greek), we can see the perseverance of a man even when he is possessed by passion and the effort of a woman to overcome many obstacles in order to achieve the happiness of love.

Logos:

Logos, (Greek: “word,” “reason,” or “plan”), in Greek philosophy and theology, the divine reason implicit in the cosmos, ordering it and giving it form and meaning. Logos has two overlapping meanings. One meaning refers to an instance of speaking: "sentence, saying, oration"; the other meaning is the antithesis of ergon or energeia ("action" or "work"), so in logos there is something of the sense that the correct word and reason are more important than mere action or industry. Logos derives from the verb Lego (Legw), to count, tell, say, utter or speak. But Logos itself also includes the inward intention and reasoning underlying the speech act: that is, the hypothesis, thought, viewpoint, grounds for belief or action.

The human soul seeks the sense of belonging. We are intertwined in the world with all beings and things, we all stem from the same source. Should we then not find home in everything. Ah, but what if everything was within?

Ego, a word from the early 19th century from Latin, literally meaning "I." It denotes a person's self esteem or self-importance. It can drag people down a black hole they don't know they're in, detached from the connectedness of the world. Narcissism, self absorption, playing victim are some of the few traits. Most of humanity has worn the hat of "I" at some point in their lives. When "I" takes over, we are highly individualistic, not working for the collective greater good, that's aligned with a higher purpose and more importantly with the energy of our universe. When we're not aligned, life is a battle, we fight alone, and who really wants to live like that? There is a healthy and unhealthy ego. A person will power is driven from their ego to achieve. Now imagine, you use your will to create for the great good, that's your healthy ego at play, and it'll keep you moving forward in a humble spirit to achieve fulfillment. Use it, for the greater good.

Ego, a word from the early 19th century from Latin, literally meaning "I." It denotes a person's self esteem or self-importance. It can drag people down a black hole they don't know they're in, detached from the connectedness of the world. Narcissism, self absorption, playing victim are some of the few traits. Most of humanity has worn the hat of "I" at some point in their lives. When "I" takes over, we are highly individualistic, not working for the collective greater good, that's aligned with a higher purpose and more importantly with the energy of our universe. When we're not aligned, life is a battle, we fight alone, and who really wants to live like that? There is a healthy and unhealthy ego. A person will power is driven from their ego to achieve. Now imagine, you use your will to create for the great good, that's your healthy ego at play, and it'll keep you moving forward in a humble spirit to achieve fulfillment. Use it, for the greater good.