A Return To Innocence, In Dreams, Where Demons Tread

Birds Of A Feather (Dear Friend,)

I see you ever-awakening
When falling back get up

I see you ever-evolving
Finding after losing self

Over and over I witness
Refashioning reclaiming

My past loves’ glimpses
Always fell asleep again

Resenting as resisting my
Pleading then demanding

For their remembering
To my detriment’s ends

It feels like succumbing to
Getting pulled into Maw’s

Relentless tractor beams’
Only recourse after death

Losing who I was before
And always wanted to be

Will you remember me if
We get swallowed whole?

Would you reach for me
However far I would go?

Dive in after me so deep
We’d reemerge elsewhere

Maybe not as who we were
But able to become more?

Would you remember
So that I could forget

As share eased vigilance’s
Soothing by salted sweat?

I need to give up this fight
Yet afraid I’ll lose identity

Negative reinforcements
Need program rootkitting

Inability to trust the process
Creates a faze-like madness

Would you be the one
I could ever rely upon

Just as I would provide for
Your needs in any weather?

Could we own and redefine
What it means to be together?

A Return To Innocence

Westley & Buttercup: Movie Princess Bride

Westley: Hear this now: I will always come for you.
Buttercup: But how can you be sure?
Westley: This is true love-you think this happens every day?

Westley: I told you I would always come for you. Why didn’t you wait for me?
Buttercup: Well…you were dead.
Westley: Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
Buttercup: i will never doubt again.
Westley: There will never be a need.

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A Return To Innocence

Of Significance

“As I drove home last night, the streets were mostly empty, and downtown felt wide open and welcoming.

I thought to myself, ‘What makes a town feel like home to me?’ – for where I live surely has many of these qualifications.

Then I dreamed I was in a place like Portland, and having walked into a bar/restaurant, realized that the drunk and grungy, street-hardened group hanging out there was not my kind of energy.

I left and soon found myself in a health-type grocery store checking out the discounted items of herbal samples and lotions.

I remembered that I used to like making simple leaf and flower combinations, and that I also enjoyed the feel of nourishing creams soaking into my skin with enlivening smells of subtle flower petal additions, such as earthy calendula.

When I happened to look down at the floor, I noticed that very small and polished natural stones had been accidentally dropped here and there, and began following the broken trail as I collected them.

I was often bending over at their level and thus caught the eyes of passing children – who also began collecting as we shared a secret exchange of momentary glee in our separate hunts for pretty gemlings.

A wall disappeared, revealing an open, bright-lit river bank along the store’s entrance where booths had recently been taken down from a community art show event.

As I approached one spot, I noticed that a previous crystal booth’s vendors had left a spread out swath of flat, polished stones of agate, bloodstone, and more types on the ground, and so I sat down on them, feeling their warm heat from having absorbed the sun’s rays radiating into me.

Completely drawing inward, I lifted some strands of my hair that were dangling forward and examined their colors refracting in light, above and in contrast to the sparkling stones below, as I breathed in the smell of green grass and sweet riparian foliage ambiance replenishing my vitaliry.

People passed by, but left me alone, as I basked in my own being’s return to simple innocence and wonder.”

A Return To Innocence, In Dreams

Dancing Forever

It’s complicated
Yet also simple

About timing
And rhythms

Giving
Taking

Risking
Claiming

Reaching for
Identifying

When caution
Is retracting

Pushing past
Barriers yet

Respecting
Fragilities

Protecting
As guiding

Leading as
Following

Gliding
Colliding

Momentum
And slowing

Casting off
As growing

What’s known
New learning

Intertwining
For owning

Expansion’s
Propagation

Through
Seasons

Ebbing
Flowing