Lover?
Mate?
Soul mate?
Dancing with life
A song is played
It attracts
It calls
A warmth is felt
Perhaps contentment
Closing my eyes
I’m overwhelmed
I know
I feel
The well within
Digging for the spring
The release has begun
Now I know
Such beauty
Such clarity
With letting go
Brings more of the unimaginable
Worthiness
No question
The gift
Always there
Unwrapping
Layer by layer
Depth unending
My lover
My mate
My soul mate
All within
Silence
Surrounds
Yet I’m hearing
Or rather feeling
A sublime timelessness
With divine melodies
That quieten
Even my
Mind
Simple uniformity
With chlorophyll abundant
Definition clear
With H2O fill
Succulent by name
Enabling warrior survival
In the most desolate
Arid of terrains
Human so similar
Designed to perfection
Multiple organ chambers
Renewing survival each day
Consciousness the difference
Given privy to the play
I behold the succulent
For giving me the way
Recognizing her attributes
I look into myself
Finding what sustains me
Our bond is now complete
Glory to our creator
As magic he did spill
For splendors both created
As succulent and me
Graced with elegance
Layered in riches
Brimming with fortitude
Aged to perfection
Truest of treasures
Never an acquisition
Always a revelation
As embedded with precision
With dignity and resilience
With acknowledgement of meaning
A life lived well
Shows through with beauty
The human no different
Whether wrinkled or lame
The gleam of beauty
Will still break though
Live with inquiry
Don’t follow like sheep
Walk against the crowd
Walk the path less trodden
Look within, look around
Answers come of asking
Make room for knowledge
And every wrinkle will hold a story
Fear not the running of time
Welcome
For it brings sustenance for renewal
Perfect just for each moment
So grateful this heart
For knowing this treasure
For knowing the guardian
For having so ‘aged’
To be so awkward
Yet accepted as graceful,
Lessons of the giraffe.
To flutter inattentive
Yet accepted as a delicate beauty,
Lessons of the butterfly.
To create incessant noise
Yet accepted as the warning buzz,
Lessons of the bumblebee.
To thunderously roar
Yet accepted as commanding,
Lessons of the lion.
Do you know how to accept your weakness
Focus on your strength
Turn your quirkiness into an attribute?
Put down the yardstick
Measure no more,
Uniqueness cannot be compared.
Seek your true features
See your real image
Be the student of your self.
Life’s milestones and achievements
Chronological and geometrically
Predictably livable
Despite being boring
Suffocating and imprisoning
All is fine
So long you follow
Societal norms.
This is how it’s suppose to be
This is what we’ve been condition
To believe.
Due to apparent successes
Fallacies repeated
Failing model denied.
Causal factors
Consistently appear
Inherent in basic human nature.
Aspirations for potential,
Desire
Passion
Growth;
Turn up unexpected at any given time.
Apple cart upset!
Membranes broken
Barriers busted
Cries for freedom.
Now labeled
Wild
Unruly
Lost.
Apple cart upset!
Can I let them roll?
My apples?
Of pain
Regret
Neglect
Sorrow
Passion
Desire
Growth
Or just pick them back up
Assemble
Square up
And box….
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And be sure to see today’s post, ‘The Mature Rose’.. inspired by Annie Lennox.
https://topofthewater.me/2017/03/31/the-mature-rose/
Grin and bear it!
From dumbbells
To cross fit ninja workouts,
From early commutes
To long unbearable hours,
From insufferable critics
To cultural and societal divides.
Sweat
Toil
Push yourself to the limit
As you work against your grain
Why?
Because they say
‘No pain, no gain’
Yet
Studies show
He lives longer
He lives happiest is he,
Who loves
Who is happy
Doing just what he does.
That’s Natures way.
Hormones, neurotransmitters;
Dopamine, one of the finest,
Released when you smile
Releases when you laugh
Released when you feel happy!
Side effect?
YES!
More energy
More intellectual capacity
More ‘Happy’
This was Nature’s plan
This is Nature’s gift
So say, ‘No’ to pain
Welcome pleasure
And take home
Your happiness!
Three hundred sixty
Pulled every which way around
Yet headed to goal
Upon the leaf
the dewdrop does rest.
Nestled amongst the twigs
the egg does rest.
Cradled in the shell
the pearl does rest.
Does your beating heart
In your chest, rest?
Against all the odds
With no sliding off
Atop the satin soft leaves
the dewdrop rests.
No cracking no piercing
Between brittle bramble twigs
the egg nests.
No irregularities and perfectly unique,
In mineral enamel shells
Lays the pearl to rest.
And you
So gently encased
Have you felt
How you do rest?
In your skin, in your chest
So graciously bestowed.
So befriend your abode
It’s where you can rest.
Know your caretaker,
Feel how you are carried
And so sacredly married.
Through sickness and health
For richer or poorer
Through good times and bad
Til death do you part;
So don’t miss your find
To know your true home
That constantly cradles you so.
rhythmandthedancer 