When filled with regret
how can we create some space
for love to enter?
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When your heart’s hard drive
fills with regret and hate,
delete those useless programs.
When filled with regret
how can we create some space
for love to enter?
~
When your heart’s hard drive
fills with regret and hate,
delete those useless programs.
Why must we wage wars,
attacking and defending
symbols we imbue with power?
~
Symbols are seen as
sacred or a threat when viewed
through amygdala’s blurred lens.
Why do we think we
can achieve long term goals
with short sighted plans?
~
Time is relative.
To a germ, all goals are long.
To the sun, all plans are short.
Why must weekdays seem
to travel life by freight train
while weekends ride the TGV?
~
Whether days move fast
or days move slow depends on
the load they carry.
Is there anything
more beautiful than a wise
and forgiving heart?
~
Perceiving beauty
takes an inward journey for
both beholder and beheld.
Since the road ahead
is shrouded in mystery,
Must we walk that road blindly?
~
Step by step we walk,
seeing only as far as
hearts and minds and eyes can see.
Why is it only
in retrospect that the path
we trod grows more clear?
~
The pathway behind
wears the marks of our passage
while the road ahead is clear.
Is it so shallow
to wait in gleeful hope
for that house of cards to fall?
~
We don’t have to plumb
the depths to hope for a house
built on lies to fall.
How to shine a light
so bright that the willfully
blind at last can see?
~
I fear that, in truth,
any light, sufficiently
bright, would do more harm than good.
What cosmic message
is conveyed by that turkey
strutting into the roadway?
~
Some think they hold cards
enough to trump those cosmic
messages and win the game.