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April 21, 2021

First Stop on the Peace Train Line

The funny thing about all our squawking about peace

Is that we think it is other people who are messing things up

That if they would just do what we think they should do

Everything would be just fine

But, alas, they think the same thing about us

And the fighting never stops

 

Unless we step up onto the peace train ourselves

And off our pedestals

No one will want our brand of peace

If we want our stories to be heard

We can’t start with them

We must start with theirs

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Letting go of controlling anger, anxiety, and angst is the first stop on the Peace Train Line.

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April 16, 2021

Opportunity Cost

All this time

I could have smiled at myself

And made it easier for you to smile at me

Instead

I may have thought too much

About why you were not smiling at me

And made everyone sad

Or confused or irritated or mad

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It was never your job to like me

It was mine

It was never your job to be what I “needed” you to be

It was mine to be what I could be for me

So that we could both smile at the future

And make the most of this lifetime of opportunity

April 9, 2021

What the Ho’oponopono Is Going on?

 

Sounds weird and exotic

But it’s simply getting right

When I have no traction

Or easy satisfaction

Hmmm? Stay in limbo

Or go all Ho’oponopono?

Cast blame conveniently

Or take responsibility?

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An easy start.

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April 2, 2021

Time Well Spent

If I choose to be here

Rather than in the quicksand of yesterday

Or in the fog of tomorrow

I can stop the pain in my head, heart

Gut, limbs, and eyes

 

I will first have to talk myself into living

(Rather than complaining about living

Or other nonsense)

Initially not easily done yet will become so

With time well spent

 

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April 1, 2021

I’m Shrinking. Wait! I’m Stopping the Shrinking.

 

It is not the lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is regret itself. It is the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people’s worst enemy. – Matt Haig

 

 

I can shrink from the world and myself in regret

And spread my sigh as a virus

Or I can walk with a better companion than regret

And get on with

The moments waiting open-handed for me

To receive as new possibilities

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Regret has fooled me once

And fooled me twice

But I won’t be an April fool today

March 25, 2021

It Will Be There When We Need It

 

Things feel so much more hopeless late at night

Than they will in the morning

And problems of the coming years so much scarier

Than those we have already mastered

 

Yet here we are at midnight

Attempting to fortify ourselves

For what is coming with the scarcest scraps

Of yesterday’s leftovers

 

Rather than trust that the resources

So needed for later will come

 

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language

And next year’s words await another voice

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As the world revolves from night to day

So we evolve from survival to mastery

March 24, 2021

That’s the Thing

That’s the thing

About thinking I know what is good for me

How could I ever know

When I don’t even know the real shape of me?

I know the shape

I imagine, project, and want others so see

But am clearly

Uninformed, deceived, or blind to the reality

Of the process required

To remove that which is less, or more, or diseased

From that which is desired

 

That’s the thing

With time there will be a better shape of me–

A shape worth the pain

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Without the brokenness of Dickens, Lincoln, Mandela, Helen Keller, Stephen Biko, Jesus, and so many others–I would be so much less. It is safe to say that if I resist the painful shaping process, I may rob countless, unknown beneficiaries.

March 18, 2021

When I Am Anxious

 

When he is anxious

Cool nerd writer, John Green

Just gives himself permission to suck

And by so doing

Liberates himself to liberate others

 

If I do the same

What gifts for others could surface?

What peaceful paths discovered

Laced through my mistakes

And weaved through the blunders?

 

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March 15, 2021

Self-Inflicted Blindness?

 

If all I get out of this life

Is the edge knocked off the way I look

At people I know

And don’t

It is enough

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It makes no sense to believe my thoughts and judgments

Without standing them up against my biases

My unimpressive record

And my deflecting

Self-serving nonsense

But that is what I will do

Unless I look in the mirror

And see that it is only me

One that is so much like you

 

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. –Voltaire