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A Place Called Alone

They said I’d find nothing
there
nothing but trouble,
confusion, despair…
They said I’d go crazy
and die there
and everything they did
to keep me from it…
But I dared
and found that in the
place called Alone,
behind the fog
of nothingness
and the pale of silence,
was home…
-
Reluctant Sculptor

Image by Max Mitenkov Existence is in the
silence
in the breakage and pauses
of action
everything beautifully orchestrated
has not been created
but meticulously etched away,
by omission,
by slumber,
by numbness…
and the most exceptional rareties
are sculpted often
by deep solemn pain
a halting howling of
cosmological chaos
Life is not a flow
but an eternal stagger
of disturbance and quietude…
-
Dim

Image by Alexey Andreev The courage
Of authenticity
Is dying…
Who has the grit
To dance in the rain
Anymore?
Or the valor
To smile?
Or the heroism
of unrequited tears?
Oh, the spinelessness of
Woke society!
who Knows everything
except courage…
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Frail

Fragilities
are keys
not weapons…
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Wheel

Image by Smita Urunkar and that’s
how some of us
get better..
from moment
to moment
from passing
to passing
saying less
and reconciling,
forgiving,
understanding,
again and again…
-
Dharma

The heart is
crippled by mourning
and healed by
the eternal flow
of transmissible
love…
-
Cell 1110

People
aren’t bad,
just badly broken…
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A Measure of Peace

Image by Lisa Lux Loneliness and Guilt
are the tokens
gladly given
for freedom…
-
Once Upon and Again

Image by vockaa We remain
blind
until we
fully see
ourselves…
-
Remembrance

Calamity
chases
the fled…