“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.” – Carver, George Washington Inventor (1864-1943)
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Reflections
Have you ever sat still just to reflect, to meditate, or to put things into perspective? Do you remember how you felt after you did that? Did this bring you peace? Depression? How does reflection affect you?
It’s a good idea to seek to understand more about yourself sometimes. We live in a world that is so occupied with trying to figure out why others are doing what they’re doing and why we should care that we seldom have time for ourselves. I don’t mean time for ourselves in the selfish sense of the word because if you can’t figure how to help someone else, have you actually succeeded in life? Aside from money, family and friends have you helped someone today? So, not selfishly, but reflectively, how often do we preserve time for ourselves? What is it about you, that makes you, you? What is it that you would like to change about yourself? How can you as the individual use your gifts to help better the world? Do you even care about such things? And you can be honest; it’s just you and life right now. Being true to yourself and being able to recognize those things about you can give way to great peace. If a homeless man thought he was a rich man, he will never fully function until he realizes the truth. He will not be able to take his rightful place until he realizes he is out of his place. The foundation of truth is rooted primarily in a people’s ability to know who they are. It is an identity that gives way to the substance in our lives. It is what we live for and what we die for. It is the struggle to appreciate our part in the world and to appreciate others and how their contribution is interconnected with our own.
So today, do not worry about how others see you, how many mistakes you made, or even how great you are, just reflect. What is it in your life that you need to change for the betterment? What is it that you can improve on? Think about these things without adding anyone else into the equation. Like I said, this is just you and life right now. Nothing else in the world matters at this moment.
Princess
Didn’t know the whole world was mine…my princess self….
didn’t know bout this crown on my head,
just death and pain till the winds got tired of blowing on me….
said it was time for the branch to be lifting my chin from the ground so lest I could see what the sky looks like…
held me in his arms like orange autumns in September…
fresh air, cool and breezy like.
Art and Power
“Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change—it can not only move us, it makes us move.”
– Davis, Ossie Actor (1917-)
On Hatred
“I imagine that one of the reasons that people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with the pain.”
Baldwin, James Writer (1924-1987)
Diamond in The Ruff
I decided to seek strength when pain took it upon herself to become the choir director of humanity
in an anxious quest to play doubt on the strings of our faith she laughs…
coughing up the twisted humor of her bowels you see she knows
that our minds have been twisted by the craftiness of sin still falling from the fingerprints of Eve and Hiding behind the shame of Adam she knows
The ease to which we are apt to scream we’re not able like the blood of Abel, that at times
our lowliest moments give us in to unbelief like virgins vulnerable to the sensitivity of fleshly skin
Faith giving it up like cracking levees… overflowing with trial & struggle she laughs while you drown in sins pain made you promise to go back to
but you tell pain that we are not bed sheets fitted to the corners of her pride
We are not fools, babbling vain words in her congregation
We are not faithless because of her existence
Tell pain that we wait for her
like crouching tigers with gritted teeth
you tell sorrow that with much wisdom comes much grief
tell her, that we are not children
borne about by every sickness breathed from the viruses she plants in our immune systems 4 we are strong
you tell pain that from her humility is born
like truth when it touched its hands on the insides of Miriam’s womb, the Salvation brought forth from pain
a stake of stabbing wounds
You tell pain that the almighty made sure that everything had its companion
You tell pain…
that Endurance was made for her
The Ultimate Test
“For one human being to love another is perhaps the most difficult task of all, the epitome, the ultimate test. It is that striving for which all other striving is merely preparation.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
Interesting quote. When you boil everything down to its genuine purpose, it all seems to come back to love. Mankind prepares itself to understand what love is and how to exhibit that love. I think perhaps imperfection is not being without mistakes, but perhaps, being without love.
What if the Ultimate test, the promised land of sacrifice and endurance, is the preparation of ourselves to meet love in its purest form, where in comparison to such esteem that even the sun is but artificial light? Would not our struggles be worth it? The beauty of pure love, it is too much to fathom, “that striving for which all other striving is merely preparation.”
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