Friday, July 29, 2011

Understandings

Ready to 'spar' at Seabright Beach, Santa Cruz, California.
(photo by Art Durand Photography)

Understandings
7/28/11

On the other side of friction
that gets expressed by 'sparring' partners
is land where milk and honey
flow freely as love, appreciation, joy,
if each participant has essential opportunity
to reveal their truth, the underpinnings
of their actions, words, taking responsibility
for having 'called in' dissonant experience
so to deepen, learn, grow expansively
this 'human' being 'spirit' in physical
realm that often challenges our sensibilities
and sanity, because we weren't created
just to keep adapting to stressors
an imbalanced society levies on citizens,
like some inhumane penalizing regressive tax
incurred for incarnating in this world
where 'original sin' Christians talk about
separates us from celebrating individual uniqueness,
infecting people with fear of unworthiness
believing there's nothing to say, do,
capable of inaugurating a shared consciousness
with others encountered during daily ritual
in theater of the absurd, lonely
though in crowd, shuffling through debris
filled streets of disconnected shallow conversation
hiding foundational understandings civilization depends upon.

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