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20 May 2020

The longing

The dark needs friends too.
Who will befriend the dark,
Who will guide us through?

It is when the world is most quiet,

It is the space that people retreat from
Only to willingly yet unwittingly 
Enter into:
The Dark,

The darkest of which lies just before the dawn.

Pain, I hear you,
The you of me,
In the Earth
and me in the Earth.
I listen and feel.
I embrace you and welcome you inside
To my fire.
I will give you a safe haven 
As you journey us towards 
The horizon in the well,
The dawn that lies at the end of 
This noisy modern world.

We are everyone else
Especially in the places of longing
And other spaces of pain.

Pain: we are come of it,
Made of it, and so,
Fluent in it, 
Carrying, holding, accepting
And loving
That which others can not -
Can not see,
Can not allow in themselves.
We take on theirs, and they,
Ours. We share.

Perhaps we ask for what we want
By giving it to others.

13 May 2020

Tercet: Ocean/Earth/Air

Ocean, what have you seen?
Earth, what have you felt?
Air, what have you heard?

07 May 2020

Jimmy, Jonesy, and The Giant

It's easy to play with it
When you got word and math writ
In the pink matter under the hoodie mad hatter.
It ain't Egoic. 
It Heroic! And that ain't no simple thang!
They heroes:
They too oft early death goes,
Yo
That be sacrificial magic
In the throes of 
Ecstatic existential life grows!

06 May 2020

Bringer of Light

In the darkest hours she appeared.
I felt held by her.
Her brilliance is Live,
Unrehearsed, untelevised,
A slam, a stand up poetry jam.
She poked me from behind
And I turned to her with a mic.

Her mind is a rap.
She dives deep to find
That which is not yet tapped,
and then shares
The real, the true, the beautiful
The kind.
This conversation is rare.

Her self, her journey:
Twisted, broken, bent, warped,
Snapped.
An inner frame of flames, as she speaks
She strips to bare
Naked.
I sense her in real time.

She speaks in answers to questions
She never knew she could ask.
I listen. She solves riddles
right then, right there.

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For Qurasha