Lean Into Light and Live ~

I've talked with many of you lately about life...

Bad choices -
Choices being made for you -
Endings with tears -
Endings with anger -
Restless feet -
Restless hearts -
Uncertainty -
All of you whirling around each other -
Pretending because it's easier than revealing what's in your head...heart -
Pretending because it's better than openly falling apart ~

Take care of each other...
Take care of yourselves...
And sometimes it's OK to let down your guard and let others care for you...
Like Me.....And Roethke

"Fourth Meditation" by Theodore Roethke

I was always one for being alone,
Seeking in my own way, eternal purpose;
At the edge of the field waiting for the pure moment;
Standing, silent, on sandy beaches or walking along green embankments;
Knowing the sinuousness of small waters:
As a chip or shell, floating lazily with a slow current.

Was it yesterday I stretched out the thin bones of my innocence?
O the songs we hide, singing only to ourselves!
Once I could touch my shadow, and be happy;
In the white kingdoms, I was light as a seed,
Drifting with the blossoms,
A pensive petal.

I think of the self-involved:
The ritualists of the mirror, the lonely drinkers,
The minions of benzedrine and paraldehyde,
And those who submerge themselves deliberately in trivia...

What do they need?
O more than a roaring boy,
For the sleek captains of intuition cannot reach them;
They feel neither the tearing iron
Nor the sound of another footstep--
How I wish them awake!
May the high flower of the hay climb into their hearts;
May they lean into light and live;
May they sleep in robes of green, among the ancient ferns...
May the sun gild them a worm;
May they be taken by the true burning;
May they flame into being!-....