In dreams we are known
in ways we can’t know ourselves.
Keep dreaming, my soul.
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BEHOLD THE SKY
The river of color flows through the sky
weaving its way beneath and between
all that is seen and unseen.
Undulations of colors entwine
the energy of the divine
with the hopes of humankind.
We fear the sky’s fall
bending our knees
hiding our eyes,
until we lose sight
of the wonder of it all.
Motion and change delight
and yet, we cannot grasp hold
of what is before our sight.
And this loss of control over the diversity
and complexity of colorful skies
entraps and belies
a sense of self so small
it frightens us all.
The skies are not falling
simply because its colors shift.
The movement within the sky
can never send us adrift.
Gravity holds us all together,
keeps us spinning, it is true;
but, never allows us to go too far, too fast.
It helps make the moments last
until we can understand
what we stand under,
an open sky which belongs to all.
Look up and behold the sky.
Reach up to touch the clouds.
Dance in the wind, bathe in the rain.
Never lose hope ever again.
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UN-SOCIAL MEDIA
Listen
to nothing I say.
What do I know,
of life, anyway?
No golden rule
lurks behind my walls,
set in place by fear,
washed away by gall.
No single tear
can bring the wall down.
No frozen laugh
explode frozen ground.
Each must answer
our own question, after all.
Defense is too difficult, like prayers,
behind a fallen wall.
We are conceived in darkness
to become pure light.
Step out silently
from your darkest night.
Do not speak until
you get it right.
The Tower of Babel fell
in noisy confusion
under the hellish weight
of failed communion.
Social media is not social at all.
It tears down towers built
too narrow and too tall.
It explodes every
brick and stone wall
laid to defend and protect us all.
Keep your peace.
Keep mine, too.
Think before you speak.
Or, speak not at all.
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