© 2011 Howard McQueen
For so many years
in a self-imposed isolation
I’ve been going it alone
I’ve tried staying stoned
spent many years as a work-a-haulic
stressed and regressed
in my self-centeredness.
And then, my hyperbolic journey as a comet
is captured in the gravity of the father sun.
What is left of me plummets towards home.
Surprisingly, the booster fuel of anger
is tapped and re-routed into opening my heart:
- finding and nourishing connections
- allowing my fear to speak
- uncovering others courageous enough
to bump up against my armored bruises
and I have held on
to uncover a love so grand
so very humbling,
that the blindness now receeds.
As I now feel my way home,
- I am stripped of my stories of unique victimhood
- Stripped of my innocence and guilt from passing along
hand-me-down aggressions.
In discovering our humanity, we will continue
to panic and drown in our circumstances
until we realize,
each and every set of circumstances is our teacher,
offering not suffering
but the opportunity to awaken
from our unnecessary suffering,
and bring forth the embodiment of living courageously,
knowing we will put it all on-the-line
for the love far greater than self.
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