Month: September 2021
The Gift
Trust was extended, when we both had every reason to prevent it.
He let me see inside him: all his faults and weaknesses.
In doing so, I found the rarest gem of his heart’s beating – generous in any weather.
Get Over It
God is whatever we name “Him” –
No one corners “His” market!
Synergy
We had barely tapped the surface of what we could have been and achieved together.
I wonder after its ending if maybe it is better this way.
(They like to hear you give up. It lowers their defenses.)
I have what is needed to manifest my own dreams, and trying to collaborate with others can enmire progress and cause conflict.
I am either being led – or have been offered a path leading away from death’s darkness.
Allah, take care of him for me. Treat him kindly and give his heart freedom’s relief.
A “Favorable” Marriage
As defined by society, marriage must march-in-step to predefined conformities.
But, this is not what proves a worthy and endurant union.
Structure can give guidance when needed.
But, like a young plant placed in a pot without drainage and room for roots’ expansion, a constricted marriage can suffocate.
My fiance’s and my engagement challenged all presets externally and internally.
It was a brave clarion-call beckoning to the universe, daring it to support relativity of love’s essential energy.
Our truth was bold and unrelenting.
Its ending proves nothing – except that forces colluded to cheat because they had already lost against us.
A pandemic had to happen to stop us.
Cowardice concedes no defeat.
Neither does a warrior.
The Art Of Love
For ten years now, I have been privately practicing blog writing and composing presentations. I’ve learned by not forcing skill and just letting inspiration gently guide me.
(It wasn’t easy, as I do have a headstrong temper!)
Over time, I have noticed reoccurring themes and tendencies – as well as experienced unexpected and sometimes daring revelations.
I did not realize my efforts would lead to my beginning to put aside camoflauge and allowing others to see my vulnerabilities more directly.
I thought I would always keep to myself – perhaps someday publishing under a pseudonym. However, the heart can only contain so much anguish when denied what it seeks and deserves.
If I cannot love all those I cherish, I must love the world. It needs my – and all of humanity’s – care to heal it.
I am capable of loving on many levels simultaneously, but my life’s circumstances seem bent on partitioning my love into zones.
“It’s a Kind of Magic”
How is it that memories return, in part or full –
As if recorded on tape with sound and sensation?
(Title from a Queen song)
Music
I can’t help but weave it into my thoughts presented to you.
It’s what has always led me forward, luring me into the future, against fears of the unknown.
Other people’s words entwined with melodic tonal and atonal harmonies, activating emotions that would’ve stayed supressed and dormant – these artists saved my life, giving hope beyond a past left charred and crumbling.
I’ve gotten pretty good at remembering by response patterns when a song passes by in revisiting. Yet I’m grateful for the search engine bots that suggest new options to choose from.
The messaging within each song I share with you becomes, at least temporarily, like a mantra to me:
“We are one person,
We are two alone,
We are three together,
We are for-or each other…”
Music is as essential to me like bird song is to the wind.
Without it, life is silence.
Memories of (Helplessly Hoping)
(tears)
“The Little Things”
What’s important in life is based upon how we define it.
We go to the dentist to clean off our teeth and keep our gums and body healthy. We accept this as a necessary and proper way to proceed.
However, sometimes there are other needs.
When I first visited with my fiance, we stayed the night over at his friend’s house. I hadn’t expected to, so did not have my toothbrush toiletries.
The amazing, differing things we ate that night resulted in a tiny calcium deposit forming on the inside of my front two touching bottom teeth for lack of flossing.
Whenever my tongue explored the groove from behind, I could feel it there.
At first, it irritated me, for I like my teeth to feel clean.
But, as I returned to The States, I realized it was one thing I carried home from my time there that had any type of permanence on the material plane and could always be with me.
As I worked odd jobs seeking stable employment, bartered at a hostel, camped out of my car, and couch-surfed, whenever I needed consolation and reassurance that our time together had been real, the tip of my tongue would seek and find our witness.
I viewed my time of hardship’s endurance as a trial-by-fire to purge weakness and become stronger.
Though I needed help and ached for an equally financially-contributing partnership, I didn’t want my fiance for superficial materialism.
I wanted him for his warm, canoodling laughter and his innovative, inclusive playfulness.
I believed he would help me, once he arrived, we married, and could get established.
I was to be the “bread winner” and provider for our family, initially.
For his love, I would have carried him over any mountain.
Mountain Retreat
When we arrive home, the forest is inviting:
It doesn’t resist that we love to go venturing.
I wish we could relocate it to northern regions,
For I’ve come to love it through every season.
The singing chorus of evening crickets –
Bullfrog river/goose-reservoired thickets.
Ravens that honk as they fly over the land;
Pines dropping cones, wherever we’d stand.
Satellites zooming across Milkyway heights:
Bright constellations track heavens at night.
Am I just a fool for wanting/needing to leave?
But if stay here, I stagnate – no longer achieve.
Movie Time: Jagon (violent content)
“This Won’t Be The (End Of Me)”
Breaking Chains
Inside, outside, they confine:
I’m on this earth to be Alive!
Cherished Parent Units
My current mom-and-pop team have been very supportive, over time getting better and better.
I very much appreciate their efforts, and they’ve made sure I’m sheltered. But, they still can’t shake their fear when I regain my power.
As soon as I start getting restabilized and redirecting myself productively – opening again to dreams – they shift the ground out from under me.
Perhaps I’m energy in motion – and they can’t keep up with me. I’ve got so much passion wanting to expand from inside of me.
Maybe I’m the one, always rearranging.
Remember To (Stay Frosty Royal Milk Tea)
Word Play
The word “exaggerated” exaggerates itself by how it’s spelled and how it sounds.
I love it when words sound like themselves.
Or when they exacerbate themselves further like a fear of long words being called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (my youngest’s addition).
Notice it includes “quip” inside itself, as if making fun of its own outrageousness!
White Flag
Darkness has tried to smother me ever since bad men broke my boundaries.
My light draws evil from wounds, mitigating poisonous festering, yet
Suffering has little restraint in its eagerness to find release.
(Multiple meanings in title.)
The Crone (part 3)
When I reached for love again and extended this to a new man, I saw the signs coming that disaster was about to strike me.
She began ringing her hands with anticipation, noting how much more she’d have to work against me due to his reputation’s popularity.
Then, something happened to him – the timing was like a clear warning: if I pursued this, he would be harmed further.
Thus, I gave in to events that followed and let the rip tides carry me – far, far away from that man’s golden halo.
The Crone (part 2)
When I saw my fiance for the last time in Egypt, it seemed she’d gotten to and had sucked him skin to bones of vital energy.
Of course, I released him – though felt this was wrong: he’d fallen victim to his version of the messaging.
We Need (Deeper Understanding)
Altered Destiny
I’m not sure I should involve myself with a man. Perhaps I ought to stay alone, as I’ve all along been.
What I need is deeper connection’s nurturing and life purpose meaning – and the men I’ve met live shallow lives with focus that is fleeting.
I’m designed to support my partner’s dreams: if they’re “nightmares,” my life is unhealthy.
Reaching Out (Take My Hand)
The Crone (part 1)
When my husband left, it felt as if a curse had been cast against me (this may have been true to some extent, in review of anothers’ trying to “steal” him from me).
I couldn’t believe he’d chosen my 40th birthday to have his midlife crisis, and I wondered in anguish how my life’s good efforts could not have avoided this.
I was looking in the mirror, deeply distressed with brain impulses blast-bombarding, and witnessed myself have a mini stroke as the left side of my face briefly dropped.
I sensed a powerful, negative force trying to crush the light within me. Something was taking advantage of this opportunity.
I prayed for protection and guidance and soon happened upon my husband’s data key – which must have slipped from his pocket while he was driving, and then slid to the floor behind the driver’s seat.
I had never trespassed upon his digital privacy, but this had to be the exception. I loaded it and learned that the choices he’d made had nothing to do with me.
I wasn’t a real candidate as his life mate – just a construct for him to project upon in our relationship.
Years later, I became engaged to my fiance and traveled between places I’d lived before, trying to find where we could settle to begin our new family.
From the beginning of our relationship and throughout, I felt as if a malevolent spector was smothering my brain in constant bad messaging.
“You’re too old for him. He will leave you for a younger woman. You aren’t attractive.” Envious, angry, and destructive, it lashed at me because I dared to strive to be happy.
The presence was constantly working against my positive psychology, squeezing and suffocating with painful degradation.
i struggled against it feebly, unsure how to dislodge its grip.
While staying briefly where my parents then lived, I went on a water fast for 24 hours to tap into cellular cleansing and resetting.
I then ate only tiny amounts of meat with a lot of cooked down vegetables, worked out almost daily, and bicycled everywhere instead of driving for a couple of weeks.
I quickly lost the 20 pounds I had gained from being exposed to extreme living situations without security. As a side effect, the skin on my face and forearms sagged: I looked as if I was 70!
Ever since that first day in the mirror after my husband disappeared, I’d felt as if The Crone had been taking advantage of my emotional vulnerability, scrabbling to suck the life force from me – and now she was winning!
But I fought back, now – valiantly – putting action, if not thought, into countering her.
I began doing facial muscle exercises and skin rolling massage with my fingers to reactivate tensility. I reentered work where I was using my arms and body frequently and regained muscle strength and tonality.
Eventually, the plumpness under thin gauntness began to return, and my skin began to retighten. My features are smoother now and more honestly self representing.
I am regaining ground and am proud of my efforts.
The Crone is a Bitch, if you let her be. There is no romanticism in her gnarled bones. She is spiteful, vengeful, and will suck youth from its marrow while cackling with glee.
The only defense I know of against her is to convince her I am not easy prey for her feeding.
Things Unseen: Movie They Live
The movie, They Live, had some aspects of perceptivity to it –
Though camped up and exaggerated for a fun, cult fan fiction stint.

It Seems So Clear To Me (Deja Vu)
Filter
Distillates gathered carefully
Reveal suppressed memories:
The answers are there to see
When we look to the internet –
Not in the distractive chatter,
But in knowledge as gleaned
When we look for the patterns
Distinguishing our capabilities.
“There’s (No Time)”
Tempered
When all crashed back in March this year, reprieve was delayed (and then cut off in June). From the beginning, I felt September was when I would reemerge.
I had hoped for less interference – to be allowed to proceed and progress, supported.
Through fire’s compressive heat beyond melting, I’ve held course, determined to not be thwarted.
Casting off the old by burrowing through caved-in tunnels, I’ve found a thin ray of sun peeking, as the hearing’s judgement is rendered in my favor.
Will I be allowed to emerge into the light of day, somehow stronger for my endurance? Or will I be shattered into pieces and buried again, mercilessly?
“This Will Be My (Monument)”
Resolution
I must no longer seek
Where I’m not wanted.
Pain
It’s not just that I’ve been abused, misused, discarded, and trampled upon.
It’s that I was born with my heart open, and never heard but a hint of an answering song.
The hunger is terrible; the ache unbearable.
I pray I’m not the only one who’s felt this way – and that our days of redemption are coming strong.
Seeking Warmth (Why Do We Shake In The Cold?)
Edge of Reason
Pushing limits, I burst through the veil, finding myself teetering on the edge of the unknown – breathless, adrenaline rushing, as gaze down at the world below.
Money
Finances are transitory: try spending, without needing replenishment.
Yet also, if you rarely spend, the regenerative energy can slow as try to accumulate.
Money is energetic exchange in the form of material or electronic currency
Its management relies on intellect and instinct in understanding how best to use it.
If every cent is put toward leaving a past behind, nothing is saved because all energy is needed for propulsion.
Therefore, other gains like savings, investing, and service advancement are put on a shelf, in stasis.
It doesn’t matter what I tell myself for confidence, when every step is considered a risk when focused on it.
Compromised
In order to process the pain, I keep to myself and explore it.
In the past, I used to call a good friend and share with her. Now I just avoid this.
It’s not that I’m ignoring her, but that I’m dealing with the thick of it.
I need to be in my own zones of meditation for effective navigation.
Mute
I could not answer
When he signalled:
I was afraid I would
Reveal our positions.
Encoding
This is my chance before more challenges find me and lift the rock under which I’ve crawled as I’ve sought for even the slightest of shelters.
My writings are thoughts surfacing – things I must promote and remember.
Do not take what I share merely at face value, for my words have depths and complex hidden meanings.
They are meant for you to ponder and reflect upon, pinging your instincts as validating their truth’s congruence to yours.
Prevent your filters from assuming you understand immediately, for my words define a hidden spring, just now revealing.
It’s waters carry within them the earth’s dreams and knowledge we’ve forgotten we are missing.
Look between the lines. See what I am beginning to see, after a lifetime of being caught in a nightmare.
I will do my best to convey what I hear life singing, as it beckons for us to add our melodies.
Extremes
They come out of walls at me, even as I am just passing by.
Something about me upsets “the status quo” – and I have no idea why!
An example is that I favored a music teacher years ago. He and I got along well, and for a few months, there may have been something.
I was aware of his public acclaim and so tread carefully, observing much going on around me.
One day, a different music teacher actually snarled at me: her face contorted when she looked at me, timed so other staff would not see.
It was the most bizarre aggression – unwarranted and near obscene!
One evening at a concert, I was sitting in the elevated seats next to an elegant elderly woman. She leaned over to me and confided, “I’ve been coming here to his performances for years. This man is quite something!”
Was everybody desiring some piece of him? What had I wandered into? What drew them to “telling” me?
I’ve always had to watch my footing in this land of others’ subconscious reactions.
I hope one day to find a man who understands these things and how to manage them, and who appreciates my aware sensitivities.
This Time
Before, my heart was caged. I kept quiet because I was taught to “keep my mouth shut.”
They were wrong, and that’s why they terrorize.
If they were right, we’d gravitate to the truth, complacent.
I may still fear – and every fiber of my being might quiver to hide and return to seclusion.
If it weren’t for the dogs, I could do so easily, and forget.
But, to provide stimulation for them, I put myself “in the lime light,” for they are interesting and of rare breeds.
So am I, but you never would have seen – until now, as my heart begins beating.
“The Moth & The Flame” (Haunt Me)
Proximity
When I took the on ramp to a town toward the ocean, I felt pulled into mountains, as if caught by tide’s suction.
As I stopped to u-turn to the store I was seeking, something tugged at my shoulders – as if it was beseaching.
But my radar was spun in those countryside ways: where we have been living has left me in a daze!
Have I craved other intelligence so much I’ve been starving, that to leave its embrace gives sensations alarming?
I resisted the call for a soon future date, when my youngest can accompany in exploration’s dictates.
With relief, the off ramp soon deposited me smoothly back into the stream where I wander enthusedly.
Clap With Me (Alligator Teeth)
Alligator Teeth
We’ve seen so much of you!
Now hurry back – and
Remember to
Smile!
We Are (The Beautiful People)
Diversity
Listen up!
Humans are an odd bunch of proclivities.
Many of us get bored easily – probably because our natural connections to life’s systems are constantly being displaced and replaced by what’s transitory.
Therefore, many of us have relatively-short attention spans and crave intellectual stimulation that’s unique.
We’ve experienced “odd” and “uncool” things happening – either to us personally, or to others and things around us that we’ve seen.
As a result, we are often reexamining and questioning – sometimes completely changing – our identities.
Without structure we can consistently identify with, we are left to create our own ways of expressing who we are and what we think and feel as we seek to establish internal congruency.
Therefore, whatever color or creed, behavior or need, DO NO HARM is the baseline policy.
Let’s move the egos out of our way and get down to planning and co-creating.
We have a World to Save, people!
As a result, we’ll redeem Humanity.
Grass Roots
What does this term mean?
Visualize green, lush, sweet grass, swaying in the sunshine’s breeze.
Then, come down into the earth with me, where we can see the root sprouts extending from the tiniest of seeds.
And just below this, the thin layer of nutrient-rich soil – the fragile matrix upon which all life is depending.
From this knowledge of Life’s precarious position, we can rise above ignorance – and Achieve.
Help Me
Support me with your positivity –
And help me promote advocacy.
Journey Through Me
I am becoming a filter
Through which our
Eyes can “see.”
