Dancer

I am energy

I am music

I am movement and electricity

I am the spark that inspired the question, 

                     the reason, the hunt and the answer.

I am spirit and flesh

... fire and ice

that which breathed life, faith and myth into the void 

Kali and Phoenix

… the ash and the promise

… intrinsic and ingrained

I am the beginning until I choose to end..

Melody, Movement and Muse 

… Prayer manifest... 

I am all things and nothing…

I am…

Forsaken (2013 re-write)

Always there and ever near 

that is the way things once were…

The first to tell, the first to ask, the first to share… 

the first and last… to laugh…

familial stories shared over troubles and joys

answers and understanding shared in search of 

answers and understanding;

now disturbing silences fills a void once full.

A once joyful ruckus beaten into submission

Muzzled… muted, sanitized and stilled

the link corroded...

and strangers are all that’s left

to issue uncomforting words of welcome and invitation

to a return to oblivion…solitude…exile.

Always there and ever near - that is the way things once were… The first to tell, the first to ask, the first to share… the first and last… to laugh.

Now disturbing silence fills a void once full.

The joyful ruckus beaten into submission

Muzzled… muted, sanitized and stilled

The link corrodes…

And strangers are all that’s left

to issue uncomforting words of welcome and invitation

to a return to oblivion and solitude.

Friends.... (2013 re-write)

True friendship is not so named or weighed 

till first tested and challenged...

else...it is no more than acquaintances with "good intentions"....

Which begs the question... should there be "intentions" amongst friends?

Cherished treasures,

embraced and safely ensconced in our spiritual wombs

we nurture, protect and defend them,

accepting all their grace and faults

forgiving easily wounds inflicted by callousness, ego or greed.

Those that recognize the gift 

cherish it in kind, reaping karmic benefits;

those that do not...

their temporary purpose so served

are expelled like so much afterbirth.

True friendship is not so named or weighed till first tested and challenged...
else...it is no more than acquaintances with "good intentions"....

Which begs the question... should there be "intentions" amongst friends?

We All Get Caught

True Friends do not lie, cheat or indiscriminately judge and punish each other with prejudice.

When disappointments and misunderstandings direct a relationship like a discordant conductor, we allow egos to fill in the blanks with festering unknowns.

We believe what we CHOOSE to believe, Embrace what we WANT to accept. Holding fast to worthless myopic and purposeless views, as though the manufactured“self” needs protecting from another’s truth. 

When true friendships die, it’s because we allow them to. Neither distance nor time are to blame, but rather our spiritual neglect and dismissal of one another.

That one would deliberately submit to and nurture anger, however justified, or no, in lieu of communication and resolution to maintain and protect what was once so greedily cherished… speaks volumes.

Master the lesson once.

Maintaining the line between  “friend” and “acquaintance” can save one a lot of heartache.