Keep Breathing
Chaos creates the Calm.
It’s snowing in Mississippi.
California burns again.
Even as Australia floods,
and Bali erupts,
and New Zealand quakes.
Keep Breathing
Chaos creates the Calm.
Maine’s torrents of internal and external natures
result in and emanate from:
strivings, strivings, strivings.
Keep Breathing
Chaos creates the Calm.
The full moon this week was beautiful.
Hypnotic and alluringly tipping the illusion of place.
By day toppling pier joggers with high tide waves.
By night cloudless skies
from vantage to vantage
framed its holy wholeness.
Keep Breathing
Chaos creates the Calm.
Yesterday a friend’s daughter died.
Yesterday saw a friend burying her beloved pet, another burying her mother.
Yesterday fellow clergy were arrested giving voices to the voiceless. But were they heard in their righteous jubilee? Will it make a difference or merely be a merry meet?
Yes, Yesterday the pull of the Earth was ferocious,
and yet, with blessed pieces of peace in between tugs of pain.
Keep Breathing
Chaos creates the Calm.
Today I have friends evacuated, evacuating, and awaiting probable evacuation as fires determine if they will have homes tomorrow. Some already know they won’t. Just like others still remain homeless farther north from whence the burning raged not even two months ago. Today they still wait.
Today I have a dear friend going to surgery to remove cancer from her breast.
Today the oligarchy is set to increase the loneliness and fear of daily life on our planet with measures to keep us separate from each other and toiling for things kept out of reach.
Today, like many other days like today,
I wonder if the Gods have left us,
or if they ever were,
or if we even are at all.
Yes, Today the pull of the Earth is ferocious,
and yet, with blessed pieces of peace in between tugs of pain.
Keep Breathing
Chaos creates the Calm.
Thank you to those who provide sanctuary for souls seeking solace.
Thank you to those courageous and strong enough to live in the light of day.
Written December 8th, 2017