thoughts

Dreamer seeking realization...

"We are the music makers, & we are the dreamers of dreams,

Wandering by lone sea-breakers, sitting by desolate streams

World losers & world forsakers, on whom the pale moon gleams

Yet we are the movers and shakers of the world forever, it seems."

                                                     ~ Authur O'Shaughnessy, 'Ode' 1874

"Nothing happens unless first a dream."

                                                                      -Carl Sandburg 

"Between the acting of a [dreadful] thing

and the first motion, all the interim is 

like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.

The genius and the mortal instruments 

Are then in council, and the state of a man,

like to a little kingdom, suffers then 

the nature of an insurrection.'

- William Shakespeare's  "Tragedy of Julius Caesar," Act II sc. 1

Perceptions of the Third Eye

She is a stubborn, tenacious, and timid soul – placidly silent in her mien at once while raging wild within

And then the sudden surge o’erflows, no holding back the tide; as once the course is fast resolved,

She looks forward and pursues progress in its path with adamant in her eyes

No fears for future given leave to linger long inside,

 Now living in the moment as each challenge present is meet

To occupy her determined energies of  heart, body, and mind

Each challenge met,  one more accomplished step upon the road of life

Only when the path’s obscured does fear become a threat

While wondering in a darkened woods of obscured possibility

Whether the options left to her will be granted to view by discernment’s clarity

She knows the only true  source of strength is found within

And should she fall, that aid will come if Providence wills to send

Every misstep taken in past served to instruct and grow humility

Her native pride still burns fervent & strong, but with greater empathy

As learning from hardships revealed, she knows that self-respect is key

Her one consuming passion’s desire :  to find truth’s Way leading to unity

And on the journey, strength and heart to aid fellow pilgrims in need

To liberate the bound, oppressed, the wounded and the weak

To selflessly devote resource to provide for universal need in showing love freely

To transcend past ignorance in wisdom’s surpassing

She knows that truth will break all bonds and end captivity

Her progress slow and even often broken by falls in missteps of  fallacy unseen

But ever onward still she moves, in Hope’s long- enduring set resolve to gain Eternity…

  ~',*,'~ 

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Why…..

Why is the world so bemused at the ineptitude

Of the poor fools who don’t fit the mold perfectly?

They say ‘Just be yourself’

then – ‘You should do something else

Cause you really stand out & it looks odd to everybody.’

(Note that no one will say

‘Just conform,’ in that way,

 No, they say it much more deviously-

‘Have you considered that this is not in your best interest?’

When it’s really their own that they mean.)

I’m of the wrong time, the wrong place, the wrong kind 

The wrong friends, clothes, ideas, beliefs

The wrong attitude – full of negativity!

 (<_>)

If my choices won’t do, *ahem* - that is, for you-

Then my cheerful response now must be

‘Well, now that may be true,

That this won’t work for you,

But, see, this has to work the best for me.’

After all, it’s my life

Their attempts to help are nice

Or maybe their intentions are, at least…

In return, I’ve some advice too

(Try to avoid giving it, as a rule,

Lest in imitation prove myself the fool)

But in some special cases,

 An exception I’ll make:

Go soak your head or just jump in a lake.

(^u^)