The Bottom

We think that avoiding problems will increase our quality of life, but still they sneak in, these problems.

Bland

Blank

Blind

 

The mind seeks out

a something,

but what it is

we do not know

until we see it

with our hearts.

 

We look

with our minds,

but it is invisible,

ethereal,

undetectably

delectable.

 

It is the unrefined

awareness

of the ineffable.

 

No one can tell you

what it is that

scratches the itch

that bends the nail

and hooks

our deepest experiences

but we know it when

it hurts so directly

and so undeniably

that we become

unedged

unhinged

disabled

and only then

can we be forced to see

with our broken hearts

the lies we've told ourselves

about what it is

that we really feel.

 

To be lost

abandoned

unforgiven

abused

denied

broken

turned inside out

these are experiences

from which we return

with an awkward awareness.

 

To skip life then

is to miss

the part where we learn

how to deal

with who we are.

 

Life is how we handle

what is done to us;

death is thinking

that we have managed

to avoid life altogether.

 

runningturtle87

Reviews

[Ahmad Cox]

There is a lot of beautiful wisdom in this one.