hiding behind the …

my feelings –
alien to you as much as – secure is to timid,
shatter like shards of glass against your narcissistic walls…
 
how awesome,
it must be –
being you;
how – required!
 
pompous as an apostrophe –
owning possession,
and the power to unite –
yet completely – unaffected!
 
and while you dangle effortless,
unencumbered –
I remain tied to the weight of my own culpability.
 
necessary,
you are –
more than any imagined ownership.
for without you,
meaning is lost;
and I become irrelevant as a useless preposition –
alone – without the companion of my most reluctant,
 
yet oh so necessary –
object…

the gift

 

life has a way of teaching lessons when appropriate,

not always when we feel the need to learn.

for some of us,

humility is much too restrictive –

a garment we feel inappropriate –

out of style.

funny,

don’t you think –

self-proclaimed autonomy?

 


we decide who wins –

who loses?

how condescending and disproportionately opaque!

 


our goal,

fervent desire,

should be to live a life transparent.

or even somewhat magnified.

allowing more light to escape than that which enters in.

to learn the greatest gift,

 

comes when we comprehend the blessing we receive from giving…