Perspective

Noise

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Scream is a Noise and Not Music

Voices in my ear

Noise

Repeating, bleating out messages received, downloaded

Good drones, sheep following the lead

Asleep, dreaming wakefulness

Opinions prescribed

To counter, as though true encounter

With its opposite

Red – Blue

Ass – Pachyderm

Perp – Victim

Dominator – Submissive

Heaven – Hell

Black – White

Male – Female

Terror – Protection

Right – Wrong

Same old round and round

Dialectical distraction

Soul’s quest forsaken

Or not undertaken

Yet heart yearns

Soul knows

Courage great heart

Turn away from the illusion

Face the darkness

And find the light

There is a reason the apple has been bitten

Tenderness and the Real (Audio)

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Tenderness hidden.

Concealed behind the humor, the talent, the success.

Those who know sometimes betray.

Sometimes ignorantly.

Sometimes with a will.

Tenderness hidden.

The betrayal steals life.

But it can also give it.

Illusions shattered.

Only the Real will survive.

Tenderness hidden.

Now uncovered.  Raw, burning, new-born.

Atmosphere sears new lungs.

Life demands pain.

The struggle provides the strength to stand.

The struggle transforms tenderness into wisdom.

AMEN – This is the way of life.

Deep Thoughts (Audio)

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Brow furrowed

Deepening thoughts

Pondering, probing, attempting to pierce the still cloud of unknowing

Existential realities

Finitude’s polarities

The Forge and the Crucible of my Soul’s Alchemy

Transformation

From Base to Noble

Seeking the secret to Life’s hidden Elixir

Peering deeply

Unblinking

I see vague forms, hear strange utterances

Straining now

On the edge of me

Profundity rises before my eyes

A voice speaks

In low, slow, fluid tones

I move closer, expectantly humbled, receptive to the Deep

“You are”

“So full”

“Of shit.  Chillith thyself out boy.  Methinks thy serious demeanor is most comical ”

I laugh

At me

Perhaps I have found the elixir after all

Be most Groovy!