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.