tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36251387824764818082024-03-10T19:51:45.868+02:001 door away from heavenShadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.comBlogger655125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-65926758217946779152022-10-18T13:06:00.000+02:002022-10-18T13:06:52.652+02:00You are safe<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEX3lfTMjYGZi1wjU-FbJPQ5VAS6-YBhNmXPYcD708PaQHR6J1lUnDohEoxlgZByIgqPP7DjtweCv4gDpmFTt0ihS8r2rMgaOIG7x9oAiSntJR93Q12UiTCyo-FvIZe1yV2SBd_8BBCJmrjS6JNuHaS3zsSFNsW1WdIPVpx7aLdMnp-gy2twDiwnlCLg/s699/children.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="699" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEX3lfTMjYGZi1wjU-FbJPQ5VAS6-YBhNmXPYcD708PaQHR6J1lUnDohEoxlgZByIgqPP7DjtweCv4gDpmFTt0ihS8r2rMgaOIG7x9oAiSntJR93Q12UiTCyo-FvIZe1yV2SBd_8BBCJmrjS6JNuHaS3zsSFNsW1WdIPVpx7aLdMnp-gy2twDiwnlCLg/w400-h384/children.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">Can you feel
the hand that is holding you,<br />close your
eyes, feel your breath, feel the light<br />that’s within
you, yes, within.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>When the gentle
giants of the seas<br />show their
presence to you, it’s your light to which they respond,<br />the butterflies
dancing in the morning breeze,<br />the owl bidding
you good night,<br />the leaf in the
shape of a heart at your feet,<br />that’s your
light drawing them near.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>You are loved,
you are safe, you are immortal,<br />you have a soul
that never dies,<br /> that has
travelled across time, across dimensions,<br />ever present
and wakeful inside,<br />holding knowledge
and wisdom you’ve been taught to disregard.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Do not shun the
visions your spirit sees, do not believe every written word,<br />instead believe
the magic and dreams that are bubbling in you,<br />aching to be
embodied in your daily life, in the creation of your purpose,<br />to live life,
joyfully, in peace, in nature, in energetic harmony<br />with all the
living beings sharing your life, your surroundings, you.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Sitting with
your back against a tree is the purest bliss,<br />being one with
the birds, the breeze, the swaying branches<br />overhead,
that’s when the song in you awakens,<br />when your body
wants to dance and your mind is enchanted<br />by the stories
you’ve been told as a child.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Go back to that
time and pick up your self,<br />disregard the
teachings of duplicitous teachers, schools,<br />parents that
were caught in the cycle of fear,<br />of duty, of
responsibility, of societal norms,<br />shake it off,
stop the cycle! free the bonds, cut the ties<br />enslaving you
in a routine of slow self-destruction,<br />promising you
worldly gain but dumping your soul<br />in a dark abyss
from which you cannot escape…<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Dream, I ask
you, dream freely,<br />in time your
stagnant soul will awaken to your inner knowing,<br />you are not
meant to be a slave to another,<br />you are not
meant to ingest food processed by another,<br />you are not
meant to fear fresh air, sunshine, the presence of your fellow man,<br />you have been
led astray by an evil that is hard to comprehend<br />as your soul
can feel the suffering, the pain, the hurt.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Make it stop,
come out from behind the veil of deception,<br />face what is
before you and only what is before you,<br />let your love
infuse everything you touch every day,<br />every word you
say, every thought you think, every deed.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>See the light
grow forth, reaching into the shadows,<br /> to the ears of
those struggling to comprehend,<br />let your steps
leave behind warmth, kindness, understanding,<br />be the reason
for the smile on a strangers face,<br />be the spark of
hope that is threatening extinction,<br />be the warmth
in the heartfelt hug of one denied touch.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>In the cave I
feared to enter I found light in the abyss,<br />through the
wafting incense and tinkling bells<br />I saw the
thread connecting all and everything,<br />with the
rhythmic beating drums and choir of angel voices<br />I was held in
awe, and the dam inside me burst open,<br />a flood of past
hurts poured forth, released me from invisible bonds,<br />freed me from
conditioned thinking, showed me the magic that exists<br />and I was left
trembling with gratitude, relief and ecstasy.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>I began to
smile through my tears as the puzzle pieces fell,<br />changing my
world, my perceptions, my knowledge into knowing,<br />and I was a
child again, I danced, I sang, hesitantly at first,<br />growing
stronger with the elation surging through my veins,<br />Free! Free! For
the first time in too many years,<br />and my
ancestors sighed, my descendants smiled,<br />released from
the vicious cycle forced onto humanity.<br /><o:p> </o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
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Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-45793875640816651422022-06-21T16:35:00.004+02:002022-06-21T16:35:43.085+02:00This Winter Solstice night<p> </p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMy86h4qCAUGr7JTeo_USGshWspQ5faDx8yPPbpq-h43K6ywrHyYJfO_Y0MyN_Lq736LfXSUysVOfJkFs6RzZyPIfTrHQpAJE2I2-bCmO2DQhSl_WgIOO7MsVsq8Do6KZCSO3aZuOipE_RlQk1LvLEyFIamYwLnGvGIHwmT4L2xR-eGTVgsFzO9c8Cg/s300/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkMy86h4qCAUGr7JTeo_USGshWspQ5faDx8yPPbpq-h43K6ywrHyYJfO_Y0MyN_Lq736LfXSUysVOfJkFs6RzZyPIfTrHQpAJE2I2-bCmO2DQhSl_WgIOO7MsVsq8Do6KZCSO3aZuOipE_RlQk1LvLEyFIamYwLnGvGIHwmT4L2xR-eGTVgsFzO9c8Cg/w400-h224/images.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">This winter solstice
draws forth a dream, my dream,<o:p></o:p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">for a world
where there is reverence for life,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">for freedom of
being, where creativity lives,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">where a different
way of doing is met with excitement,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">where I am seen,
heard, felt,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">where I live amongst
souls who know to do the right thing,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">who are in
touch with their inner knowing,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">with the
seasons, with mother earth,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">with people who
seeks to understand,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">whose source is
love,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">whose fodder is
gratitude,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">where you and
me and everyone<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">may be who we
are meant to be,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">naturally,
instinctually,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">where dreams
such as these hold magic,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">so let this
winter solstice night<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">lead you to the
place of your dreams<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and believe in
it, what you can see, can be,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">for I believe with
certainty, this place exists...<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p><br /></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-73594145630298226002022-06-03T16:53:00.000+02:002022-06-03T16:53:29.864+02:00Time of Transition <p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYKCFNCEjJxAuFsbZTXs2vBCojniKhr2s6Zcp3obLW6oubdvAj90IkmsL-D1HfBNThwnbfOWNxCILniJNqrJhohV_mqiHsB3JQc6q0TVFIMVXoM9cm1iIJ1OQSoIJ72sROOTQdHibah_y85jCnfVu0mj5GCKUZ375r_0PB-hBvWkMiN4b7b7-3vTa2qA/s1280/IMG_20220601_081841_726.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="855" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYKCFNCEjJxAuFsbZTXs2vBCojniKhr2s6Zcp3obLW6oubdvAj90IkmsL-D1HfBNThwnbfOWNxCILniJNqrJhohV_mqiHsB3JQc6q0TVFIMVXoM9cm1iIJ1OQSoIJ72sROOTQdHibah_y85jCnfVu0mj5GCKUZ375r_0PB-hBvWkMiN4b7b7-3vTa2qA/w268-h400/IMG_20220601_081841_726.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>We are so full of triggers</p><p>full of learned behaviour,</p><p>is it even possible to undo it all?</p><p>Every day I go about</p><p>catching myself ere I speak without thought,</p><p>I look with scepticism at every rule,</p><p>I question the steps I’ve been taught</p><p>and very little stands up to scrutiny now,</p><p>I was filled with horror, fear, shock, anger,</p><p>entertained thoughts of vengeance and war</p><p>but this war was already waging,</p><p>within.</p><p>It is said, we need to reach the bottom</p><p>before we can rise,</p><p>we have to face every fear,</p><p>we have to realise ourselves</p><p>as sovereign, autonomous beings,</p><p>we have to recognise</p><p>we are from here, from this earth,</p><p>we do nOt need to fit in, belong, conform,</p><p>we have our place, we are perfect, whole, free souls,</p><p>meant to wander freely as we desire,</p><p>with respect to nature, to mother earth,</p><p>live with the sun and the moon,</p><p>live with the seasons,</p><p>and we will be filled with light,</p><p>rewarded with love,</p><p>live in peace and joy……</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-3731708476723050942022-05-15T14:39:00.004+02:002022-05-15T14:39:57.506+02:00Grace and beauty<p> </p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCkazBjfGrS-46v9C9yXL0oX1zrJgeWGY3w5d3afqNcMaf-pKyVp3doRf-649pzrQCpT_I1B11lxqlku12bqX67cPvyHv_HziELjnGoh_9NC4IjncQaPNeczU5YyMn5_PrSc0RQyObKzi7LEtVjQVLmL7JqGDcRADiQ1J1fPs0ARE5PSxRXc58SpMjNg/s1920/peaceful-wallpaper-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCkazBjfGrS-46v9C9yXL0oX1zrJgeWGY3w5d3afqNcMaf-pKyVp3doRf-649pzrQCpT_I1B11lxqlku12bqX67cPvyHv_HziELjnGoh_9NC4IjncQaPNeczU5YyMn5_PrSc0RQyObKzi7LEtVjQVLmL7JqGDcRADiQ1J1fPs0ARE5PSxRXc58SpMjNg/w400-h225/peaceful-wallpaper-5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p>What is grace and beauty</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">but being able to sit in the sunshine,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the music from the Sunday market<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">temporarily overriding the motion of the waves,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">may I stay in this movement,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">in this flow of nature,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">without obstruction, without resistance,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">at peace, at rest, with the knowing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">this is the way to living.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-86633948850978429812022-05-13T13:20:00.000+02:002022-05-13T13:20:34.063+02:00I wish I could<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM3dU9iJvt5SlU8g41uWLverN3nX8s0y3IEsiuwa-3rF2iB0vlaBdDuaz5HgNPdgTFz0809rCzUMWeXi-xyVRE8-QM3ldAhWIW0kSlu_72nIFCMq5ytFuhvl1pI7KG3T46653oWuWkBD_f6F4WQ_j6vSp9tVUR4kE2VUWuxsssbDhtkyd-fb0QisfZXA/s810/present-moment-3-810x567.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="810" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM3dU9iJvt5SlU8g41uWLverN3nX8s0y3IEsiuwa-3rF2iB0vlaBdDuaz5HgNPdgTFz0809rCzUMWeXi-xyVRE8-QM3ldAhWIW0kSlu_72nIFCMq5ytFuhvl1pI7KG3T46653oWuWkBD_f6F4WQ_j6vSp9tVUR4kE2VUWuxsssbDhtkyd-fb0QisfZXA/w400-h280/present-moment-3-810x567.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p> </o:p></span>The cloud is soft and
the spirit light</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">yet the tears fall as
rain on this plane,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">stifling my breath,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">the pain and suffering
a blow to my stomach,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I double over from the
force,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">and I wish I could
extend my arms,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">wrap them around every
pain, every tear, every loss,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">hold you ‘til the
tears run dry and the pain subsides,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">hold you until you can
lift your head and gaze at the dawn,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">hold you until your being
is filled with the light of your wakened spirit,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">then gently let you go
as you jump free from the restraints of darkness,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">beings so light you float
above the ground on legs as young as a gazelle,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">eyes as bright as a child’s
and a heart open and filled with love.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-75374691135267365772022-05-12T09:32:00.002+02:002022-05-12T09:32:37.149+02:00Love and Light<p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1libnBDppGXtux26KKS3dHpt5RCa1ldZwkMGrMmRmOVLMrcUm_UUgIoJPM763nYAa12o_DRwtLSF1htvMaE4TBNNdEgC7gIA4kNWHN6qI4vTY0vYBUmzY_u-NpvnEXiq7-sEUGrFcDLaZdJX8R2Fttvg640c0IjwfvtGP4fXeUsHthScl90GgvtMgBg/s720/1447827030-206036_244218642265847_154317147922664_868422_6257094_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1libnBDppGXtux26KKS3dHpt5RCa1ldZwkMGrMmRmOVLMrcUm_UUgIoJPM763nYAa12o_DRwtLSF1htvMaE4TBNNdEgC7gIA4kNWHN6qI4vTY0vYBUmzY_u-NpvnEXiq7-sEUGrFcDLaZdJX8R2Fttvg640c0IjwfvtGP4fXeUsHthScl90GgvtMgBg/s320/1447827030-206036_244218642265847_154317147922664_868422_6257094_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">There is so much I wish to say</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">but I can’t find the words<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">for the feelings I feel,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">for the pictures in my head,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">for an inexplicable clarity I have of things<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">which burdened, perplexed me<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">for such a long time,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">my mind and my heart is sparkling<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">with visions and ideas,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">there’s a newfound peace and joy inside<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">bursting free that may find me laughing out loud<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">when I walk barefoot across the lawn in the sunshine.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I see pictures behind pictures,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I hear sounds within sounds,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I see hues I have not seen before,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">taste tastes I have not savoured before.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Make no mistake, I still feel stuck<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">in this old world,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">my new world is not yet ready,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">not yet mine to live in,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">but this dysfunctional mess we are all finding ourselves in,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">will not be for very much longer,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the edges are rough, the story is fraying,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the lie no longer has pillars to hold it up,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and while the old sinks and disintegrates,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">my dawn, filled with love and light,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">is growing brighter with every passing moment.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I understand my purpose,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I have love in my heart<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and a warrior in my soul,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">soon we will all be together,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">my family, my tribe.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-44298350589876846842021-12-10T16:16:00.003+02:002021-12-10T16:17:28.849+02:00Dream magic<p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpb6rg6ScM-NOEopt2HFyIQG0_HHvZu0FJ16X392VHTd8FIfGq9KLu5oSfAA6yKzs6qoDmI9egueLA3C6rqxwyxgZNhTeGwCyesAr3y-NWCgfRrfDW-Hn3eU2RDQpUusZRe8P5fEVSTCzbbSIZd7C73nJBM7Gxc75WAycUlH5Kp4mITo7joEACcf9qcA=s2048" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpb6rg6ScM-NOEopt2HFyIQG0_HHvZu0FJ16X392VHTd8FIfGq9KLu5oSfAA6yKzs6qoDmI9egueLA3C6rqxwyxgZNhTeGwCyesAr3y-NWCgfRrfDW-Hn3eU2RDQpUusZRe8P5fEVSTCzbbSIZd7C73nJBM7Gxc75WAycUlH5Kp4mITo7joEACcf9qcA=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;">My dream is to be, to be all I can be,<br />to be comfortable in my own skin,<br />to know I belong<br />with the people around me,<br />the places I inhabit,<br />to the creatures whose path crosses mine.</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;">I am a woman, I am whole,<br />I am a soul here to heal<br />and to heal those around me<br />with my presence,<br />I have knowledge of plants,<br />blooming and not, edible and not,<br />designed to heal, and not.</p>I use this knowledge given to me<br />to better every thing and living being around me,<br />for this to spread to all outer reaches of this plane,<br />bringing light, joy and peace to the restless,<br />bringing freedom, release and tomorrow to the divine souls<br />already sharing the sunshine with me,<br />and cooperation, understanding, respect,<br />growth, natural change and love will flood the earth,<br />touching every shadow, bringing it to light,<br />touching every sorrow, healing in its wake,<br />touching every broken heart, picking up the beat again<br />and able to emit the same love they have felt.<p></p><p style="text-align: left;">And thus the new world has begun.</p><o:p> </o:p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<br /><p></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-8178013611689176862021-11-18T19:11:00.000+02:002021-11-18T19:11:12.192+02:007 ibis<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXx3XvRdTQqAD-0UQb79CIUjcF54tLhBV_oleP1HBvDxGCZLH2b44hY0p5Eb4JGnn0OgJG46vb1oPkhKnpngnTUncvoji9H2zPqJrVoP9RvsWkBbpO64kwJJVu3OVh_DaUhsqUar8sH_6w/s650/f777ec609608a2556a0697e78b8a611b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="650" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXx3XvRdTQqAD-0UQb79CIUjcF54tLhBV_oleP1HBvDxGCZLH2b44hY0p5Eb4JGnn0OgJG46vb1oPkhKnpngnTUncvoji9H2zPqJrVoP9RvsWkBbpO64kwJJVu3OVh_DaUhsqUar8sH_6w/w320-h320/f777ec609608a2556a0697e78b8a611b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p>Seven ibis came over from the oceanside,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">ever calling, calling, calling,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">they drew a line right over my house,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">all the while calling, calling, calling,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the front of the line reached the apex of the mountain,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">they spiraled down onto a field out of sight,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">all the time calling, calling, calling,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">at 18-something on 18 November, 7 ibis flew over my house.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-9067222485051068282021-11-14T13:03:00.003+02:002021-11-14T13:24:10.797+02:00On the Path of Love and Light<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_L4Trhlc1WAaJ_CRgYiBH-SjIM97tWWImyrUz48InnNIi4Q4rYA0EAwQvjF3zs7CTqjiKAxRCkpfziOleUCfc2aLJsxFzo8hPns4wINPOkF3YqZgZnUlqVBA3MfGOsxpmHMG2uEZ-yvVb/s900/boulevard_of_broken_dreams_by_junsuifox-d523u9c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="900" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_L4Trhlc1WAaJ_CRgYiBH-SjIM97tWWImyrUz48InnNIi4Q4rYA0EAwQvjF3zs7CTqjiKAxRCkpfziOleUCfc2aLJsxFzo8hPns4wINPOkF3YqZgZnUlqVBA3MfGOsxpmHMG2uEZ-yvVb/w400-h300/boulevard_of_broken_dreams_by_junsuifox-d523u9c.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The ocean in the not too far off distance is rolling, azure, warm,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the soft breeze feels good,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">as does the sun on my bare skin,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and the music in the air caresses my senses<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">into a perfectly soft, white, fluffy cloud,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">joy floods every part of my being,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">contentment, peace, I’m pliable, drifting in the flow<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">of what is, in light and goodness and kindness, giving, receiving,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">a never-ending circle feeding, nourishing, growing ever bigger<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and stronger, stronger than the dismally low frequencies<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">prevailing right now, they cannot resist, they cannot withstand<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the tug from deep within their soul answering the universal call<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">of love, so let it be.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><br /><p></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-54114177821186905852021-11-05T17:46:00.002+02:002021-11-05T17:46:58.780+02:00The 5th of November<p> </p><p> </p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqzi3qzSuzHcu_YY_gtwWgpTAIlN8SLeoj0aVw7C8IioV9pU672NZb7H2iH5ylmywE4z3ifFHE5b-z3b2a4NmFLYus0lkdoUc66lI20wPWBKVNvC2MIIY7KwoOzHbqb685c0WnEHk3jGde/s612/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="612" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqzi3qzSuzHcu_YY_gtwWgpTAIlN8SLeoj0aVw7C8IioV9pU672NZb7H2iH5ylmywE4z3ifFHE5b-z3b2a4NmFLYus0lkdoUc66lI20wPWBKVNvC2MIIY7KwoOzHbqb685c0WnEHk3jGde/s320/download.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I’m free-flowing with old rock,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the drums and easy living hypnotic and it captures<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">my imagination in the ways of old,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">awakens that drive, the passion to break every restriction,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">follow the beat of your heart and the direction of your footfalls<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">into the darkening Friday night waiting…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Close your eyes and see the colours float through the air,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">colourful strands of music teasing and tasting,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">enticing you to move your limbs however they need,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">however they want, toward whatever may happen,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">wherever that may be,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">it invites your sense of youth, of love, of excitement, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">dripping with the desire to live, live fully and wholly and exclusively<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">to your truth, your being, your longings<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and drag away this captured 55-year old woman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">from the midst of an invisible war, where every fairy tale has proven
true<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and every news cast is fabrication and indoctrination.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Damn you! Damn you for stealing dreams, hope, joy, pleasure,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">damn you for hurting children! Damn you for hurting animals!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Damn you for thinking you have to right to abuse and kill at your whim!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Damn you for always hovering at the edge of escape<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">but tonight? Tonight you are going to have to take 2<sup>nd</sup> seat<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">for I plan to be, to feel, to do, just that which I desire to,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">it is the 5<sup>th</sup> of November…...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-21679330122219778492021-09-23T15:30:00.001+02:002021-09-23T15:30:18.246+02:00Emotions<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF7P6j5aIuO2OkcBVw7_A_C0n0yI-kjK7CbXC2_82pNu8cujxRtfPOiJs03K8H3Yw8Dtqvx_PIP5TQjPqzDOL5-kL-PaJoRITojjDYFypKXObJ40C01M4PwVsrn4cXV6GsqdByuSCjMCk3/s662/0f977bba462421dab70579e976567609.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="429" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF7P6j5aIuO2OkcBVw7_A_C0n0yI-kjK7CbXC2_82pNu8cujxRtfPOiJs03K8H3Yw8Dtqvx_PIP5TQjPqzDOL5-kL-PaJoRITojjDYFypKXObJ40C01M4PwVsrn4cXV6GsqdByuSCjMCk3/w259-h400/0f977bba462421dab70579e976567609.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p>I can feel colours, every colour of the rainbow,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I can feel music, pulsing through my veins,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the joy behind the smiles I can see,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the wonder in a little one’s big bright eyes, <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the delight of frolicking pups chasing the shadow of a bird,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the pure true awe of the majestic mountains who have my back,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the raw power of the crashing waves rushing in my direction,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">just as I crash at times, so hard the impact leaves me without breath,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">slams me hard into my seat, keeping me there, pushing me down,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">paralysed, without a hint of where to from here,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and even as I curl away to shield my self<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">with tears of pain, helplessness, pointlessness,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I can and will accept this as long as beauty too, endures.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-84608071277771862712021-09-16T16:10:00.002+02:002021-09-16T16:10:59.981+02:00Dream a dream<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgOH8Oy3u7OY6HX8YIBcPkQpBEOMTNYVSIbo-aMp9j-cy-f0Uwd0ugEQksFDwlgo-iD5sDzJ-hDGT9Q-ZcuhBYC9GalyDhBlSafFfXQcQMKKYYv7OnrM-4fyEmwSHr7MxcmaNa75DsDvCW/s1200/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1200" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgOH8Oy3u7OY6HX8YIBcPkQpBEOMTNYVSIbo-aMp9j-cy-f0Uwd0ugEQksFDwlgo-iD5sDzJ-hDGT9Q-ZcuhBYC9GalyDhBlSafFfXQcQMKKYYv7OnrM-4fyEmwSHr7MxcmaNa75DsDvCW/w400-h209/download.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">If you could dream a dream within this dream<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">would you dream yourself young, wild and free<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">of inhibitions, rules, constraints, reticence,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">with a solid faith alive and knowing what is right,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">what is wrong, what to follow, what to let go,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">free-flowing on exuberance, love and laughter,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">dancing to the song sung by your lovers lips<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">over the flames of the fire burning high,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">under stars celebrating the return of goodness<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">to this plane, freedom and peace reigning supreme,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">without leaders, without laws, with respect, with understanding,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">so that I may lay claim to the other life that was destined for me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-91762064270645483782021-09-03T19:35:00.001+02:002021-09-03T19:35:52.901+02:00Not my Friday night<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdAnmSB9kZQRmqV4d7ewTJfUq2IRfZlSaHIxkWr6di-nx2uiqB6qfQCC6j91mhWizYkjoUVxW0j94oJy8gtxIC8wd9SwVCgz8rNV1HaUD1j7o2CCeTx7Sh7aS5N8QyddLTWFlJIED5bhpw/s1920/102737.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdAnmSB9kZQRmqV4d7ewTJfUq2IRfZlSaHIxkWr6di-nx2uiqB6qfQCC6j91mhWizYkjoUVxW0j94oJy8gtxIC8wd9SwVCgz8rNV1HaUD1j7o2CCeTx7Sh7aS5N8QyddLTWFlJIED5bhpw/w400-h225/102737.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p>There’s a rhythm pulsing in my soul</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I just can’t quite find the beat</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">it's alluring, I get lost in it some times<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">awaken as if from a dream<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and it leaves light behind<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">light and a yearning for… for…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">for this nightmare to end<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">for this battle to start<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">because this hovering in limbo<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">is threatening my sanity<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">tolerance has worn dangerously thin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">there is no easy way out of this<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">no short-cut, no avoiding it<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">it’s the moments you hear young beautiful people<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">talking about having ‘done their duty’ and done the double<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">that sadness overwhelms so intensely tears flow<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and it feels like hope is being sucked right out of my lungs<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and I am suffocating from this helplessness,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">this crippling powerlessness, to divert the end<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">that is sure to follow……<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-57610298629058704202021-08-26T17:02:00.002+02:002021-08-26T17:02:22.814+02:00Now<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw0_pskCruWBsbua5bgOBo7D5xcSuxyYjxHl9o-jCtbB0L7Ndg1qsbbkg5AXmJNmYeHiuQNsMPGB2WwCEbG5yM7LUhzYoofGLT242HRRBKba1Dx-waHgHGav5UR1svlpZSZ3EZMAt1SynG/s680/60444164_2300825326645235_3113916375534403584_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="680" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw0_pskCruWBsbua5bgOBo7D5xcSuxyYjxHl9o-jCtbB0L7Ndg1qsbbkg5AXmJNmYeHiuQNsMPGB2WwCEbG5yM7LUhzYoofGLT242HRRBKba1Dx-waHgHGav5UR1svlpZSZ3EZMAt1SynG/w400-h400/60444164_2300825326645235_3113916375534403584_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Memories simmer just beneath her face,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">seemingly close but they leave before they lace,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">eluding her when she gives chase,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the more she grasps the looser their embrace,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">consciousness kills all the light and the spark<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">fades into blackness so deep and oh, so dark,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">it’s ending,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">live in the light, in the dream that you share,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">hopelessly wild, where you’re free, free without care,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">it’s ending,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">when is the time and where is the place,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">there where we’ll stand, when we fully can embrace,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">new in this rhythm and new is the sheet,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">new are the places and people you'll meet<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">leave out the yesterdays, leave out the past,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">now is all there is to have, all that ever will last.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p><p><br /></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-58778916738360641882021-08-20T15:46:00.000+02:002021-08-20T15:46:25.543+02:00Let it be...<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG-v6UNAHaKpB2ncmJ7VizIpmHT78BZGsXGM38oWPYt3iygOdX13f5lWL83sTg-pYI7cCNgIH4edg2jWt6Bw6GOSeAhv8_hb26E-cUIQFyJq5WQpVTvv7MUgNcHsQAd5CwXLCFAB774dYP/s1333/585b5440361655.577c6df73efb5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG-v6UNAHaKpB2ncmJ7VizIpmHT78BZGsXGM38oWPYt3iygOdX13f5lWL83sTg-pYI7cCNgIH4edg2jWt6Bw6GOSeAhv8_hb26E-cUIQFyJq5WQpVTvv7MUgNcHsQAd5CwXLCFAB774dYP/w300-h400/585b5440361655.577c6df73efb5.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The clouds are marshmallow white and in the far, far distance,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">a sharp, dark blue line marks the divide between water and air,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the air crystalline in clarity, open as far as your dreams can see,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">lush green palms and pines stand majestically tall,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">yesterdays rain flowing from deep roots solidly anchored,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">through their bark, fronds, needles, reaching into the sky,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">emitting their knowing to anyone listening<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">whilst they sit under their canopy, back against the trunk,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">close their eyes and breathe in deeply, the breath of the forest,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">let their minds travel to destinations they didn’t know to be alive
within them,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">become still, perfectly, comfortably still, let the future you see
before you, unfold…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-55806794008495624432021-08-13T19:03:00.000+02:002021-08-13T19:03:36.043+02:00Create your dream<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuxu4gMiyBFKciwr83MG5H6Gy4h9ufcbR8yMHcLckRqkzd3NNmYGyRifTqmEBk3Anoi0dwbwFRUMmjkMQcI-pMu_rkoAhEsrzrNbZ4bTvnTjCn8FYjhGVWG27up218CY2TQcv6OfYdQvJ9/s600/spinning+top.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="600" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuxu4gMiyBFKciwr83MG5H6Gy4h9ufcbR8yMHcLckRqkzd3NNmYGyRifTqmEBk3Anoi0dwbwFRUMmjkMQcI-pMu_rkoAhEsrzrNbZ4bTvnTjCn8FYjhGVWG27up218CY2TQcv6OfYdQvJ9/w400-h224/spinning+top.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>The veneer is wearing off,</p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">false bravado is unravelling,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the effect of this lie is taking its toll.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">It’s in the lacklustre eyes,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the downcast heads in the streets,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the silent, oh so silent Friday nights.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Close friends have lost loved ones,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">to ventilators and heart attacks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">suicides and overdoses,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I now know the owner of the business<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">that was forced to close,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the folks down the road who’ve lost their home.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The world is crying,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I hear the desperate prayers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">late into these darkest of nights,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">my soul is crying out<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">to the heavens,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">‘Make this stop,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">this sadness is too deep,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">too intense, too much to endure.’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I ask, ‘Give me the tolerance,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the understanding, the love,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the kindness, the faith,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">to lift myself into stillness<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">to find my tribe, so we may share<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the peace and joy<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">in the creation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">of our dreams.’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-68305961817108977252021-04-03T10:51:00.000+02:002021-04-03T10:51:03.501+02:00There is no going back<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifZqhlSdc-k8f7Uwg4O-iXChAWYfBVE-B4y2GMy3gIr7rQCKbVM493ZhaWG_b62otnDRAOdZHrNlmcMEse9VKFb85GK8cZmqtvwHPBh0dy8lTnCFaS28v1Gu-d5nKVFHZXELDPbFU_hA-6/s335/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="335" height="383" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifZqhlSdc-k8f7Uwg4O-iXChAWYfBVE-B4y2GMy3gIr7rQCKbVM493ZhaWG_b62otnDRAOdZHrNlmcMEse9VKFb85GK8cZmqtvwHPBh0dy8lTnCFaS28v1Gu-d5nKVFHZXELDPbFU_hA-6/w400-h383/8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">My heart embraces everything you have sent reeling though me<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">and my soul sings a song the waking mind cannot comprehend,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">which draws me back into myself, where I am silent, empty.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">So I look for solace in the shadows of the night<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">where I can console my breaking self in the forest<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">that swallows the howls of the wolf streaking through the darkness,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">whilst being fed by the light of the silver rays of the full moon,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">awakening the wild, wild ways that come naturally and uninhibited,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">even as I try to outrun your voice, your words<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">echoing from the distance, speaking to those parts of you<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">still alive in me, that keep pulling me back, that keep calling me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Today I am strong, today I see your falsehoods, your devious ways<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">cloaked in gilded chains, the desolation of a future with you,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">I hear the lies I tell myself to fill the longing, the emptiness,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">that takes me to when you ruled, my world, my reason, me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">There is no going back, there is nothing to go back to,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">limbo is a permanence, the once most uncomfortable space<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">now less so, no longer as threatening, no longer impossible.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">I’m finding my way, slowly, day by day, this solitude a balm,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">allow flow, through me and going along, not yesterday, not tomorrow,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">only now, not an easy place to be, short-lived and already gone,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">but so peaceful, so calm, so trouble-fee, so alive, so beautiful, so
real,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">and this is where I wish to be, to stay, always….<o:p></o:p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p><br /></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-44900236953637786972021-01-05T10:10:00.000+02:002021-01-05T10:10:16.397+02:00The New (ab)Normal<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho2dQhI1WikeVIF0pWAPZFEvyoyXJoO-3REeUbb0ezbA4e1QONctIxPsw6Yeim1Cs9ZwFVI_Qi2GDBfMTURqVcGSWWHKv4iWOjAm0DSv1_3zQOjMqpDX40KzQKnvlXkfYDFGN4wrXiXZ8-/s2515/hands_pray_crop_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="2515" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho2dQhI1WikeVIF0pWAPZFEvyoyXJoO-3REeUbb0ezbA4e1QONctIxPsw6Yeim1Cs9ZwFVI_Qi2GDBfMTURqVcGSWWHKv4iWOjAm0DSv1_3zQOjMqpDX40KzQKnvlXkfYDFGN4wrXiXZ8-/w400-h199/hands_pray_crop_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Every so often, when this new abnormal becomes unbearable,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I feel the urge to do something familiar, something known, something
that used to provide pleasure,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and I head out with my husband or a friend into the mild, sunny day to
have scones and tea in a country coffee shop.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">I try to emulate past behaviours by revisiting old haunts and travelling
familiar roads<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">yet the enjoyment evaporates with every mask I see walking along the
road,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">with every ‘no mask, no entry’ sign,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">with the hesitance of strangers to even engage in conversation with
someone they do not know,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the sun loses its warmth,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the air becomes thick and unbreathable when I see a child behind a
mask,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and the scenic valley only evokes sadness when the comparison between
the beauty around us and the evil committed against humanity becomes a stark
reminder of the oppression imposed on us,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">hope dissolves when I think of my 25-year old son who has his life
ahead of him,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">under what conditions????? under who’s rule????? to what end?????<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The vaccination is a line I will not cross, I have lived, for that I’m
grateful,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">our children have not!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">The unfairness of this all, this dehumanising of humankind,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the subjugation of having to wear a mask that must be endured,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the shutting down of societies ways, relinquishing human contact,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">the removal of freedom of movement, freedom of thought, freedom of
speech, every freedom you can think of!!!!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">tears me up inside, because the tunnel is so, so very dark,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">resistance is meagre, the fight ahead a vital one, one I hope will
come,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">because I would rather go out fighting than become a slave to a bunch
of delusional egomaniacs,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">who believe themselves elevated above the rest of humanity and governments,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">who are themselves slaves to the $ and to power,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">their minds tainted with insanity,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">who feel they have the right to mould this plane to their
specifications,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">who believe themselves to be gods.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">No, my sadness is inherent, as is my fighting spirit,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and I pray for courage for the day which will surely come<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">when I will stand face to face with evil,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">may I be bold enough to speak my truth,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">brave enough to stand by my belief<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">and strong enough to do what is necessary.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-70354951760189640792020-12-31T09:38:00.000+02:002020-12-31T09:38:06.456+02:0031 December 2020<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQp6X0rh5XTYkndX7CY707eXsJFP7Vk4o6UsH-mNPYF1MW0UAfoIaE4yEBRHxUDj-0ASUm0Ywc2rWhzw4CDPVleBWEfxS9y5tFEgK3dP3NPY45w-NqZB59nFsUluXmVrnOv0czExk7W84G/s620/eRyVyHyVaMaNysu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="292" data-original-width="620" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQp6X0rh5XTYkndX7CY707eXsJFP7Vk4o6UsH-mNPYF1MW0UAfoIaE4yEBRHxUDj-0ASUm0Ywc2rWhzw4CDPVleBWEfxS9y5tFEgK3dP3NPY45w-NqZB59nFsUluXmVrnOv0czExk7W84G/w400-h189/eRyVyHyVaMaNysu.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><p><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p><o:p> </o:p>The last day of the year and my heart is filled with sadness,</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the madness prevailing on this plane,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the masses knowingly or unknowingly deceived,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the anger directed at the wrong people,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the lack of empathy that exists,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the callous nature in which humanity is being
persecuted,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for those living unnecessarily in fear,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for those who have no hope,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for those who don’t see a future,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the misdirected,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the broken,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the lost,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for a time gone by, never to return,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the loss of freedom,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the loss of joy,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the anger trapped in so, so many people,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the lonely,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the isolated,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for memories that feel like a fairy tale,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the youth who have to live this out,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the elderly whose entire reality has been
removed,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">sadness for the loss of love,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">everywhere….<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">…and I pray the love and joy still alive<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">will overtake and consume all the evil, the darkness, the threats, the deception,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">and may the devil take his own and depart from my reality, and this plane, forever.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br />Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-65347543979422272372020-12-15T14:07:00.001+02:002020-12-15T14:07:09.069+02:00Holding On<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij8_JgmmQMc6Jz7N7h9k0avHUEspHQq2dKE18dxXor_xzLWfjfEx_nXGOY7VwR6dqSN9zEleUAg6kNxZQ-EjwwPs3uFEqCa3l-OfaUkZMPrCIlZ8Wl9A5AbqmeQnySBM8QXGT3adb_Ab7q/s1920/1920x1080-Lonely-Sad-Sea-Water-4k-Laptop-Full-HD-1080P-HD-4k-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1920" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij8_JgmmQMc6Jz7N7h9k0avHUEspHQq2dKE18dxXor_xzLWfjfEx_nXGOY7VwR6dqSN9zEleUAg6kNxZQ-EjwwPs3uFEqCa3l-OfaUkZMPrCIlZ8Wl9A5AbqmeQnySBM8QXGT3adb_Ab7q/w400-h225/1920x1080-Lonely-Sad-Sea-Water-4k-Laptop-Full-HD-1080P-HD-4k-.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">There is this knowing, an awareness almost inherent,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">a feeling of, it has always been, maybe silent, but never
away,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">wrecking havoc on me, yanking me this way then that,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">feelings my body has not forgotten, images alive in my mind,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I can taste the fresh air, I can taste the freedom,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">it was never meant to be another way, this is contrary,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I’m holding on, we have always been, holding on is what we
do well.<o:p></o:p></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p><br /></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-43579945325694853342020-12-03T16:38:00.000+02:002020-12-03T16:38:40.455+02:00Worlds beyond our World<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHWuvg78uHig6wK5CUHR4ijDlFAS4wFxjzEAZupIInn6QLizy1SWV_15zyNXOvWIM2p9k4sPWO2dlg8kKXchJA6hcmNyguYImzskolgY_SKdwqweic7nBhlBBijikUStxDJNOUc3UyeLGD/s720/surrealism-3512133_960_720.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="576" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHWuvg78uHig6wK5CUHR4ijDlFAS4wFxjzEAZupIInn6QLizy1SWV_15zyNXOvWIM2p9k4sPWO2dlg8kKXchJA6hcmNyguYImzskolgY_SKdwqweic7nBhlBBijikUStxDJNOUc3UyeLGD/w320-h400/surrealism-3512133_960_720.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p> Nights are still the most peaceful place to dwell in,</p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the silence of a soft rustling in the hedge, a hooting owl, in
the far-off distance a barking dog,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the darkness of the brightly sparkling stars, dimming as night
by night the moon is growing,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">the perfection of lack of sight opening your vision to
worlds beyond ours,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">to dreams in magnificent colour and detail you can taste
them, smell them,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">you want them so badly, a slight tilt would topple you into
the unknown and steal your soul forever<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and all you’d leave behind were the footprints on the paths
you walked<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and the tears shed by those who were true to you, shared
your life, loved you,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">yes, I would not hesitate to fall into that unknown, the
façade of this world has crumbled<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and I can bear no more the degradation, destruction, dissolution,
maliciousness and greed<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">that rules this plane, and what I see to be possible, underscores
the depth of your deception,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">and is also the starting point of your demise.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><br /><p></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-41106463876078847662020-11-30T14:46:00.000+02:002020-11-30T14:46:11.171+02:00The Top of the Food Chain<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWP0D7qeGNklgN1IKWmvWnGPWIVGaKntizJL0t3CWCAZ6CQEN2VghNXInrgT_lCfaliZ_bZuOiY1fY3FjOSGhTidhab_pJXkWU_ShhTOYO31Z3LA_D94czoRN3qAY9WBEqRoRHCZsgxShA/s612/istockphoto-919410080-612x612+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="612" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWP0D7qeGNklgN1IKWmvWnGPWIVGaKntizJL0t3CWCAZ6CQEN2VghNXInrgT_lCfaliZ_bZuOiY1fY3FjOSGhTidhab_pJXkWU_ShhTOYO31Z3LA_D94czoRN3qAY9WBEqRoRHCZsgxShA/w400-h225/istockphoto-919410080-612x612+%25281%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">I don’t want to think about this world anymore,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">everyone lets someone down,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">each is a threat to the other,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">tainted with fear and uncertainty, no word is true,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">no action is pure, no deed is done out of love.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I look out over the ocean and wish I were a dolphin,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">no thing can corrupt its mind,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">no body can lock it down,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">freedom just is because restrictions do not exist,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">do not cloud the mind, do not follow anything but joy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I watch the wind arc the branches of tall, tall trees,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">grown strong through gales,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">roots deep to anchor itself,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">giving shade to worthy and unworthy alike,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">providing shelter to critters and creatures, unendingly,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">yet we call ourselves the top of the food chain????<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-56406317237698783292020-06-20T13:47:00.000+02:002020-06-20T13:47:02.067+02:00Observations<br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqDlCL8gBWZDcZWDzmQ22DxrYeMs4lbLTHV-T7HmaSd5BafFjrz28mYopGN9MPM9ad101DXh5whvvqqM9cDRQCKJLuSFrO24MRq9kNbjlrmg2k8oXLkcOiYwi7P5mOQKyi8a68H_xxT4H8/s640/d597fe600f14908cffc27992107d0a31.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqDlCL8gBWZDcZWDzmQ22DxrYeMs4lbLTHV-T7HmaSd5BafFjrz28mYopGN9MPM9ad101DXh5whvvqqM9cDRQCKJLuSFrO24MRq9kNbjlrmg2k8oXLkcOiYwi7P5mOQKyi8a68H_xxT4H8/s320/d597fe600f14908cffc27992107d0a31.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>I walk through fresh air and sunshine, not a care in the world, it’s a weekend afternoon after all,</div><div>children are running across lawns and fields all energy, excited voices and boisterous laughter,</div><div>a cat is sitting on a tree stump sunning itself, tail swishing lazily back and forth, disinterested gaze,</div><div>the ocean in the distance is calm, currents drawing streaks in all varieties of blue, </div><div>the horizon flat and beckoning, whilst the mountains majestically guard this valley,</div><div>a silent solid strength crystal clear against the winter blue sky, so much life, so much tranquillity, so much natural joy and beauty……</div><div><br /></div><div>……spoilt by the masks I see, incomprehensible, as these are healthy people wandering about,</div><div>folk living in a fear that hasn’t reached or touched them or their loved ones directly yet has destroyed and completely changed their neighbourhood, their community, their way of life.</div><div>Think for a moment, if information wasn’t spilling lies into our heads and heart as easily as it is, through our phone, tab, television, social media, if people still reacted to what they faced and witnessed instead of what they were told, enhanced by stage acts shot in our streets, this lie would never have perpetuated to this point where the citizens of this world are held prisoners in their home, have become fearful of touch, even from their loved ones, are held hostage by their governments, where, when we obey, we may be rewarded with our God given right to (their selected) freedom of movement and association…..</div><div><br /></div><div>……and looking at what I see before me, today should be another perfectly peaceful day in paradise, without strife, without worry, without threats, without fear, today should be a perfect slide into a trouble-free, love-filled Saturday night, how can we allow them to take this away from us?!?!?!?</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-23776302142616768262020-06-03T16:33:00.002+02:002020-06-04T16:11:57.786+02:00I pray<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYCtyK-3Uk5ruIqn0TzQ3i4MlaZPpe05KR7glN2kzwdme-RfUjxwBolTkwZRXcexpMPdyIzA0dUxw0Q-Dh8KLRkJITs7VRMXVGq7VALE_9Bt09m08GFIqhV-0oGKbH_tgUbBv8eRMKORAY/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1332" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYCtyK-3Uk5ruIqn0TzQ3i4MlaZPpe05KR7glN2kzwdme-RfUjxwBolTkwZRXcexpMPdyIzA0dUxw0Q-Dh8KLRkJITs7VRMXVGq7VALE_9Bt09m08GFIqhV-0oGKbH_tgUbBv8eRMKORAY/w400-h255/muzhik-gorod-valenki-chb-bomzh-dozhd.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">I passed a vagrant, a wanderer, this afternoon,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">who took off his hat and dropped
his walking stick,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">sank down on his knees before my pup,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">slowly reached out and held his
hand for her to sniff<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">cooing gentle words to her, seemingly
oblivious of my presence,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">focussing on her soft coat,
wagging tail and gentle eyes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">and I could feel his need for a
hug, for warmth, softness,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">emanating right through me, a wave
of such sadness<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">and longing, for love, of loss, of
what is…<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">A pup can feel the need for touch,
freely give a hug<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">while comforting an aching soul,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">how is it that humans have lost
that compassion for one another?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">My heart aches for this world, for
the lonely, fear-filled people,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">for those without hope, of which
there are many,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">for those without a tomorrow,
there are more and more each day,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">for those who don’t have anyone to
turn to, who do not understand,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">and I pray God gives them comfort
in His own special way.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p>
</o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Shadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05999801833389058410noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3625138782476481808.post-78882336425732200172020-05-22T17:45:00.002+02:002020-05-22T18:59:40.578+02:005.45 on 5.22<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX9SRvuftvJbqCHMtvUGr_KncZzzAoxlvGXSBeK5TBosNMeuBZUydhyphenhyphenlS37K35ueYLjeuY2dkJM0V0yHMjAyNMqnQNnCRgjajBkpCMoar1zN-ALAT_mjDAYxewuDnt6AVYP-mIBanJxfUM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="865" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX9SRvuftvJbqCHMtvUGr_KncZzzAoxlvGXSBeK5TBosNMeuBZUydhyphenhyphenlS37K35ueYLjeuY2dkJM0V0yHMjAyNMqnQNnCRgjajBkpCMoar1zN-ALAT_mjDAYxewuDnt6AVYP-mIBanJxfUM/w400-h266/Tommy-Ingberg-Crow-2011-865x576.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><o:p><br /></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1;"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">It’s 5.45 and the street lights come
on, another day past, and I wonder<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">what do you get out of this, what
do you gain<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">with these tyrannical laws you have
created,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">what hollows are you trying to fill
by oppressing others,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">denying basic human rights, taking
away freedom,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">tumbling peace-loving people into a
state of fear, panic, hatred and desperation?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">What is it you get from being so hateful,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">from accumulating money and
possessions whilst your country is dying,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">what do you feel when you see your
people suffer?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;"><o:p style="line-height: 1;"> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">...but when you're alone, you are
still that lonely, hateful, empty, poor, pathetic soul<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">and no laws you write will ever
satisfy the darkness alive within your self,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">it will never be satisfied, it will
consume you and control you, it will own you<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">and you will remain a slave to your
desires and greed and hate and self-loathing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">because how can you sleep a sleep
of peace<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">when you are actively plotting
against, instrumental in implementing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 1; margin-left: 0.5in;">the execution of your fellow man.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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