A Soul's Yearning BurningA Poem by Easter3It is Thought transformed into Action that makes the Phoenix take Wing........Long Standing little Cruelties Wear you down Break you down Bring you to deep Suffering and Despair Drip, drip R-r-r-r-r-ip At the Seams of a Heart, Mind and Soul Can turn a Being into a Weary Wanderer Wondering what the Purpose That they were so-o-o-o certain of At one Time in this Life really Is ? Or ever really Was ? Or ever is really To Be ? A Questing Sojourner Searching to Define And Re-Define And Re-Re-Define What the Meanings and Purposes Of their particular little Energy Form is all about “This little Light of Mine I’m gonna’ let it Shine” But first I’ve gotta’ get out from underneath This dark, heavy and suffocating Bushel I’m EnSlaved under and within Then I can Begin I Can Begin Perhaps, if my Life Force Burns Brightly and Elucidatingly enough I can Burn This ‘ole EnSlaving Bushel Down to the ground To Flying, Floating cinder and dust And Escape to Fresh Air Freedom of Movement and Thought And the Great Sparkling Cosmos Surrounding little ‘ole me Just me Prick, stick and lick the wounds That Bind me And hold me down and away From parts of my Brighter More Noble More Loving More Kinetic and Truer Self That Self that I put on the Shelf Because I grew tired and discomfited By Constant Cruelties and Disappointments Great and Small Of MySelf and Others Or the Gravitational Pulls and Pushes Of Energetic Caprice That grab hold of our Life Forces From Time to Time With no apparent Reason or Rhyme Of course The Blame Game has value sometimes Name the supposed Villain The Dis-ease The Dis-energy Call it Out And put on the squeeze But the tease The Rub is in the Knowing Because to Change To Transform To yearningly Burn The Knowing must be Acted upon And oh, those who are weary and worn Sometimes Loose the Ability to Act And that is why we Need Why we Seek out and Seek to Be Champions Heroes Saviors Movements Causes To ignite our little Lights Into Brilliant Flames Of the Resurrecting And Re-Resurrecting And Re-Re-Resurrecting Transformative Phoenix A Soul’s Burning Yearning for……………
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Added on April 20, 2016 Last Updated on April 20, 2016 Tags: Transformation, self analysis, movements, causes, champions, poetry, life patterns, Seekers AuthorEaster3Liberty Hill, TXAboutLeah Sellers is a native Texan who has enjoyed four varied careers in her lifetime as a: Secondary Education teacher in the fields of English, History, Journalism and Special Education, an Activity di.. more..Writing
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