The run and jump

 

She’s a baby at this thing called life
because she cannot understand
the lies, the greed, the arrogance
and that dreaded manipulation
that trips her up time and time again.
 
But babies grow and learn
and know to take little, little, steps,
before the run and jump
that takes them away and over.
 
I reckon she’s in mid jump
uncertain how or where she’ll land
but at least she is in motion
from years of immobility.
 
If I had a hat I would take it off
but I can bow from the waist down
and pay homage to the strength
that came out from the blue.
 
Yes, she was strong and is strong
now way up in the air
but will a cushion or a rock
be awaiting her “come-down”?
 
But such is life that no one knows
what a run and jump will lead to
but to stay as one immobile
a fate worse than death.
 
Please let’s pray that she will hand
upright on her feet
and live to tell of the heartache and grief
that will surely follow her all of her days!

Sifting

 

These days more than then

it’s time to sift through the dirt

and find a little miracle

waiting to be noticed

and rescued from the pain

of being trodden on. 

It takes a time, it really does,

for sifting’s no easy task

when distracted is the mind

by life’s activities. 

But to sift, look, and be aware

of something waiting in the dirt

to be lifted up and cherished

always gives a good return

on the effort expended.  

How sad these days to walk on dirt

and ignore what’s underfoot

until each and every miracle

breaks up and disappears.

The voice of free speech (adapted from the original)

The voice of free speech soft and dulcet in its tone

or harsh, abrasive, cutting, and reaching to the core,

moves freely like the wind, touching, circulating,

and speaking only and always to those who wish to hear.

 

Ideology, philosophy, wishful thinking, memories,

unsubstantiated dreams, hopes, wishes, needs, desires,

woven like a tapestry too soon to be out-dated

and discarded like a heap of old and musty books.

 

In a fire of these times volumes and manuscripts

will burn and be forgotten like bodies of the dead

and cynics will grow to outnumber those who know

till all and everything disappears into the air.

 

How pointless, how degrading, how useless is intent

to expose to the already wise the wisdom of the old

or shine like a star in the path of a blind man

in the knowledge that he has no eyes to see.

Too numerous the setbacks and too far away the moon

to highlight a soul within the shell of flesh

and everyone’s free speech will evolve into dust

to be trodden on and crushed by life’s intolerance.

 

The air once thin, sustaining, grows thick and thicker now

with the absorption of … simply all and everything

Season

It’s just a season good or bad

that comes and then it goes

and caught in the cycle we obey

whatever rules are laid out.

But then mid-way or at the beginning

a mighty struggle ensues

and who once a leader becomes a loser

and the old gives way to the new.

We can blame the season or leader now loser

who once in the task of growing up

caused an event that sapped his strength

at a time when most it was needed.

He doesn’t bend his head in shame,

he doesn’t wring his hands in grief,

and certainly no tears can fall

when evil is his saving grace.

Yes, evil applauds dastardly acts

and the one who caused his downfall

because evil’s not fussy as long as it lives

and as long as the people suffer.

But evil forgets it is just a season

and soon the season will change

and over the land one word will rebound

and that word is, of course, …

“Freedom, freedom!”

Once ...

 

Once on a Sunday that lady believed

magic would manifest all of her dreams

and the sun shone on that day in between

the beginning and end of that Sunday that was.

 

She remembers well the heat of the day

and how blue the sky that captured her gaze

and as the leaves danced on each/every tree

she wondered what tune played only for them.

 

She listened because she too wished to dance

to celebrate fully her day of belief

but instead she sat still and breathed in the air

that surely held tunes she couldn’t yet hear.

 

And then the night fell; it kept falling, you know,

and blanketed out the sun, sky and trees.

to make her believe her day of belief

was plain and simply a dream.

 

But what held the dreams she certainly had

except that glorious day of belief

that weakened its grip and let them fly free

to perhaps manifest in some other time.

 

She waits and she waits and listens each day

for the music she couldn’t then hear

but she knows she will one Sunday in time

because days of belief don’t disappear.

Fanning

 

I’m fanning the air around wishes, needs,
to circulate what I put out
but how stupid is that when mind’s intact
and works with no electricity.
 
It’s not solar powered but yet needs fuel
brought up from the depths of desire
but you must understand life pollutes all
and makes wishes/needs ineffectual.
 
It’s not like life’s evil or bad
but simply slow to desist
from dropping my every wish 
into the dirt of its own agenda.
 
But one day, one day, life will believe
everything dropped must be picked up
so if I don’t fuel the fires of desire
my wishes and needs are disempowered.
 
And who would have thought a woman like me
would end up a stoker of fires
but it’s okay, you see, because I believe
one day that one day will come.

Never thought …

And I never thought I’d know

of corruption, deceit and thievery

and yet here I am surrounded and embroiled

in the worst of them thrust on humankind.

It’s like the mindful tower I built

of all I thought was good and true

has fallen prey to despicable control

that toppled it to ground.

Of course I search amongst the rubble

for traces of the right and honourable

but all I find are dust particles

that ne’er again can be a whole.

It’s raining today and where sand now mud

that one day will bake in the sun of renewal

but those days are so very far off

that perhaps never in my lifetime.

But I’ll make my own tower again, again,

because all that I am and all I believe

can’t be destroyed by the hand of evil

so prevalent in these current times.

And so as I wait for the sun to come out

all I can do is design and refine

my blueprints of soul that allow me to know

but that block the infusion of iniquity!