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Peaceful Emptiness
It has been a while since I wrote anything concrete; it has been a while since I had any desire to. I have been emotionally and spiritually in a new place the last few years, and it was not until recently that I began to be able to put words to the sort of peaceful emptiness that I have fallen into. A place where I comfortably gaze upon the contradictions in myself, life, and others with a peaceful smirk. Where knowing and unknowing equally have a presence within each breath. A place where the prison of a reputation no longer traps my anxieties. Ultimately, it is a place where…
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Fire
There is a fire that exists.Its origin is not my own.And yet,I spend my days as if it were mine. My fire, or so I think,Crackles in pleasureWarms in honorBlazes in accomplishments. This fire, my fire,Comforts with adulationEspecially when “doing good.”So why do I fear? There was the one,The one in the desert.Who spoke of fire,An unquenchable fire. This fire, I fear.This fire, I want.This fire torches my pride,This fire is Love.
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The Human Balance
I recently found myself in multiple conversations about how to strike a balance between recognizing times when we need to be alone and the moments when we need nothing more than to be with others. Needless to say, I didn’t get very far, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized there wasn’t a recipe to strike the balance. That could be because the balance is innate, engrained within the fabric of our beings from the beginning. The very nature of being human is to be ourselves within the constructs of community. Therefore, the truth lies in the paradox. Life has a way of dictating our needs.…
