Have Patience Please

Please, please
Have patience
With each other

The common person
Wants common things
All over the world

The dogs and cats and
Chipmunks
Want the same things

Enough to eat
A place to sleep
Some warmth in winter
Some cool - in summer

God grant us all this peace 

The Events of Recent Times

Waiting in line 

At Christmas time 

This time so tainted by 

Killings

In the name of God 

Hoping all will be well

Knowing that God 

Does have an odd 

Sense of humor 

Ebola and plague 

And taxes 

What 

We must discover within 

The place of peaceful reckonings

It's really all we seem to have 

That saves us from 

The events of 

Recent times 

Again

The end of the cold 

Means 

The beginning of life -

Again 

Now 

That I can breath again 

I must

Make plans 

Again 

There are things 

     To do 

Again 

The wheel starts 

Turning again 

I have been spared 

This time -

I have a few more years 

To try some more 

To live the perfect life 

Be 

The perfect person

Who -

Am I kidding ?

Hey I'm not kidding !

I do try 

     And get it right 

And I do get up and 

     Try again 

And again 

It's something I pride myself 

     Upon 

My tenacious ability 

     To never give up -

Trying to find the 

     Solution 

The simple way 

     Of being 

Which the great pundits 

     Speak of

And the answers to 

The burning questions 

All the big ones -

Who 

Exactly 

Are we ?

Why 

Specifically 

Are we ?

Where from? 

 Where to? 

And 

What to do?

Next -

Unicorns and Others

Waiting out
This cold
And re-evaluating
This life
My direction 
And how 
I could have gotten 
     So many things 
     So wrong 

You see 
I believed
     In most of what 
They 
Told me  
And 
I've been patiently 
      Awaiting -
Waiting for 
The unicorns 
     To arrive 
 The parents were so sick 
Of war, I'm sure, 
That they too believed that 
Unicorns were 
     Right around 
          The corner 

And when they didn't appear 
(They never appeared)

Well, some of us are 
Still waiting patiently 
We can't believe that people 
Don't leave out 
Food and water 
For them 

We are forever amazed that 
The news never mentions their absence 
That places are not kept sacrosanct  
     And magical 
Natural
Undisturbed
     To provide cover
     And fodder
     And shelter 
For the human spirit-soul 
And also for our Unicorn
Brethren 

Sad

Sad 

So sad 

The people are starting 

     To fight again 

To call each other names 

And 

Fight

In the name of God 

     For God's sake!

Don't they know 

God is love ? 

Don't they go within and 

     See 

Don't they feel the separation between 

     Ego 

And soul

Don't they feel it 

Don't they know 

     How? 

Simplicity itself 

Sitting, breathing

Being 

The complexity of life 

Becomes still

Becomes bliss 

And we become one 

With it 

With bliss 

And the energy of love 

At the core of us 

Simple 

So simple 

Please don't 

Fight 

Anymore 

Last Night

Last night 

There was the decision. 

Go postal 

Or 

Dance Tango! 

Destroy all the things and 

Stuff 

Or dance till the 

     feet hurt 

To get outta my head

Get into the music 

      Instead 

When songs were played 

Which were not 

     Nuevo

It took great effort 

To say 

Very little 

To not push the buttons 

     And turn the knobs 

On our gracious hosts 

     Set up 

And when Pandora said 

There had been too many 

Skips 

Too many choices 

I thought to myself 

     That's no way to do 

     Business 

See if I ever sign up 

For you!!!

Oh I was so needing 

To look at the stars

With you, dear

When 

They were playing 

Unfortunate songs 

And I needed a little rest 

Out onto the patio 

     We stepped 

To breath in the cool 

     Night air 

Thank goodness you 

     Were there 

You let me dance 

Like no other 

Not insisting upon 

Nothing but 

Patterns and 

Steps 

Please 

Never learn so much 

That I cannot move

The way I want to 

When I need to 

Like 

     Last night 

The Actor and the Dream

Facebook contact 

With the acquaintance who 

Done me wrong. 

So 

So 

     Very wrong 

So 

So 

     Many years 

     Ago 

What to do ?

     Carefully liking -

     Not commenting -

     Realizing there has been 

          No change 

In 

Ridiculous and 

     Nonsensical

Attitudes

And opinions 

Live and let 

Live 

And 

See what happens with

This newly unblocked 

Line of communication 

It has been ten years 

- A long time to be 

     Unfriended

A long time to be 

Blamed 

And 

Despised

:-)

I have learned so much 

About 

Evil people -

People acting out 

Their own 

Stuff -

Expecting someone else 

To receive their 

Unwarranted 

Anger 

Oh thank God I know better 

Now 

Than to believe in -

     To be affected by 

Some silliness  

Of

Some other 

Some temper tantrum 

Behind some imagined 

Slight 

Thank the Angels 

I can see now 

That behavior belongs to 

     The actor 

     On their own stage 

     In their own drama 

     Of their own creation 

My own stage becoming 

Much more like 

A Zen Garden 

     With a few 

     Well chosen rocks 

     A pine tree 

     A bench 

- For contemplation 

And the seeing 

Of 

The difference between 

The actor and 

The dream