This poem is about a man I spent 5 days with, Bob. I met him on Zoosk. We
communicated for a considerable time before I stepped beyond the line of
acceptable behavior. He lives in another state so I grabbed up my credit
card and went. I had enough sex for the next 6 years. While I consider
myself a ‘sovereign’ it was interesting to put myself into the position
that I did and let go of the reins/reign.
An educated man
With papers to show it
Stuck in his base chakra
Too innocent to know it
A Counselor by trade
Getting others to talk *1
Captured by his ethics
Lack of greenbacks made him walk
If choice is a metaphor
With something to be gained
Drawn in unconsciously
Despite un-sustained *2
His decision to council
Perhaps unconscious projection
For his need of consultation
Unknowingly needing redirection
Maybe this man
With a BA in BS
Needs now my counsel
For his/our future success
Not ‘our’ as a couple
Not ‘our’ as divided
No, across the continuum
A lesson provided
The lesson at issue
The lesson at hand
How we support change
In ourselves and in man *3
Showing up for another
Perhaps, letting them rant
Providing the space needed
Outside of a judgment or stance
Speaking their Truth
Sharing their heart
Clinging not to the brokenness
To which might be a part
A Counselors make-up
Perhaps an intelligent ear
Who stands outside of judgment
Also, outside of fear
Every person we meet
A story to tell
Because of our absence
No not their personal hell
With no working knowledge
Of another’s life portrayed
Outside of their description
Or, of what it was made
Emotions are absent
Of the other long held
Up-bringing obscured
Inside of cultures spell
To make hasty decisions
While not inside all of the facts
Helps release of nothing
And makes the brain doctor a quack
The heart chakra is basic
Hopefully open and free
Standings with and by others
By it, helping others to BE
Expanding in process*4
Within one’s energy field
Setting free others
Simply a wonderful yield
Judgement the issue
Misuse of our Force
Though fundamentally normal
Works to keep us off course
Potentially conduits in action
Healers of kind
For ourselves and the ‘other’
Seems has been lost over time
Our minds and our eyes
Conditioned to see
Through the lens of belief
A perspective not free
To stand at the mountain
Or perhaps the Red Sea
Understanding our value
And our potential to BE
As we reach up to heaven
A term tossed around
Connecting to Infinite Source
It’s where our energies found
God swopes in to fix
Through the mix of our stand
Whatever needs a fixin’
And helps mankind expand
Contrary to this
On impediments heels
The force of resistance
That the world has concealed
Resistance and fear
Disconnects us from Source
While we pray our ass off
Instead of our method, divorce*5
Whatever exists
Born was, through time
Perhaps we’re complicit
Though not subjected to fine
Our emotions will point
To the direction we need
To stay stuck in a pattern
Or chose to proceed
9/27/20 #1
1:13 AM – 4:03 AM
*1 Seems like he would be perfect for the profession, he was way easy to
talk to, but money was important to him and what it would buy to help
provide the image that would provide others with a substantial opinion.
*2 I’m using myself as a measuring tape to create this connection. As a
metaphysical philosopher with an opinion about everything and a heartfelt
desire to help create positive change. For whatever reason I became a
hairdresser, go figure. However, at some point I ran onto Edgar Casey ‘The
Sleeping Prophet.’ His deal was, if you dream about hair, hair in our
dreams represents thought. So, I laugh at myself and say, as close as I
could come to affecting other people’s thinking and perspective was by
doing their hair. So, taking that example and mapping it into Bob’s life,
I’m suggesting that at some deeper level maybe he realized some of his ways
of seeing things could use attention.
*3 Man, as in mankind, humanity.
*4 Here it is being suggested that as we stand in another’s greatness, we
are expanded as a by-product.
*5 Not a literal divorce, just divorcing ourselves from the judgments we
hold which reinforce resistance.
