Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Year of the Snake

 


In a beautiful daze, 


Rested upon the shallows edging an ultimate depth


Many times bathed in, swam across, and where I was born. 


Phased between a long dreamland, and waking and walking in alpha state, 


Not yet phased at all by the coffee 

Or the slipping sun as I arise. 


Not yet greeted, the incoming new year...

  but getting to it. 


Candles lit. 

  Mode ticking. 

Dazed. Not yet lucid. 

Sitting most marvelously 


Upon the shallows, edging the depth. 


I suspect, Spirit has tempered me. 


As I lay more and more 

  Day by day 


In such a halved lucid state, 

That the attachments release, 


With no clinging. 


A washing away. 


I had cried and struggled against. 

I had pounded a heaving heart and chest, with flailing limbs 

I had damned the heavens for what they bestowed on me; these burdens this life...


But in return, 


When I was quiet....


When I finally found a slight internal place of peace...


They told me why. 


That I, 

  Afterall, 


Was the one who could alchemize such a wretched rot. 


That I was the one, 

  Who could make the poison 


A spiritual journey. 


So maybe this Wood Rat, might afterall, 

  Find her way, 

   Around the snake. 


and though a formidable foe, 

  Divine Protection 

     is no match for the Stars. 


In this dreamland, 

  I was the first to reach Buddha...clever and as the story is notoriously told. 


and it is by no mistake either 


That I am the Divination 

                                       Of The Star XVII. 


They are body temples...

  But I am The Light. 


Understanding incarnation 

  Can not keep us caged at night. 


Day walking in the shallows, 

Depth walking in the Night...


Restored by the waters of deep, 

  and anchoring on shore, once more

Another Day 

         Of our might. 


Another day, we enforce this light


Another day, 

  We imbue. 

  

A spirit perhaps of Fire. 

 But a fire 

  Of a 

Different Kind. 


A primordial flame. 

A Blue Magic. 


A kiss of 

  And from 


The Greatest of Depths. 


We indeed, 

  A much 


Different 

         Kind. 




Thursday, December 26, 2024

Faith Lost

 

Tired and exhausted from the holidays

Eating up the victories as they dissolve into mush. 

My patience is lost...


Lost in us...

Lost in the existence of familial perpetuated insanity. 


I had been patient and hopeful...

Against all logic and leaning into an unfathomable intuition. 


But I am starting to wonder what my life is without you? 

What it might be like to be consoled by you, 

Against the rough grains still splintering me? 


Driving alone, 

And wishing I could call on my old friend

Hear your voice, 

and fill the emotional void that has been attempting to fill itself. 


I'm not sure this life has gifted me anything worth living for. 


I guess along the way, 


I may have wondered if you could be? 

If us together, might make the difference? 


But maybe I will let that all go now... 

Since you never cared about me enough to call 


Not even 

  One call, 

Over a decade. 


Maybe whatever bond we have, 

  However unbreakable, 


Will have to die this reincarnation's death. 

Because I can let you make a fool out of me, 


Not a day longer 

However loved,

  You have been. 


It makes no sense at all 

  For me to remain here, 

Bonded to you, a ghost 

Long after your  passing. 




The Disappearing Act

 



The more I think about it, 


Had you ever been a friend? 


Had you ever concerned yourself with me? 


Did you once show up over the years? 


Did you console me when I needed a shoulder? 


The more I think about it...


Hadn't you always disappeared? 


Had you ever been here for me, 

When I needed someone the most? 


Maybe once since our little theatric play out 

  Of Cruel Intentions. 


Maybe once. 


But my boyfriend had to be there for that. 


So what of it was even real? 


The more I think about your disappearing acts


The more you remind me of my cowardice Father. 


Never there. 

Always making excuses not to be. 


And it angers me. 


It angers me...


Because maybe your presence might have made every difference in the world. 


Maybe your friendship, 

  Might have altered our entire destiny. 


But had you ever extended that, 

  Hadn't you also rescinded it? 


Didn't you abandon 

  any thing between us, 


Whatever it was; whatever it had a chance at being? 


Didn't you abandon me again? 

No words to excuse yourself from the table or the home? 


Just a disappearing act. 


and I had wondered earlier this evening...


I had wondered...


What if without your love, 

  Her love was destined to wither? 


What if by never accepting the offer 

 at each event we might have had the choice...


What if you doomed her as well? 


What if you were meant to....


But you just never did? 


I suppose she will just continue to meander in her existence, 


And make way of her own...


For what choice have you given her?


Never worth your words even. 


You wouldn't even give her that.