The moment has arrived
When I recognise myself
My shadow holds me
As we dance as one
To life’s unique rhythm
My eyes no longer floating
In the peripheral breeze
Anchored now, within vision
Stepping beyond knowledge
Contentment in hand
I am firmly grounded
Within the present
Within me
You held me tight
Embracing my loneliness
And casting it adrift
From the shores of reality
The waves of uncertainty
Broke on an unquestioning shore
Your compassionate caress
Rekindled my heart
Sweeping us both
Into the depths of desire
Can we ever know another’s truth?
When we shy, far from our own
Can we stand in darkness, linger there?
Become accepting of what is shown?
The stories we strive so hard to hide
Are fiction and nothing more
Created by thought, then held in place
By perpetuating the lore
The real disservice we do ourselves
Is not facing our innermost fears
By avoiding our own reflection
We create all the messy smears
We amplify the voice within
The defensive, looped soundtrack
Believing the lyrics are our own
When they are really, a media feedback
Like lemmings in a video game
A slave to repetitive routine
Expecting others to pay the price
Then complain about quarantine
Uniting as one, uniting on mass
And decreeing enough’s enough
Is how we can all be the change
Then we can really call their bluff
Skipping through the fields
Of all of her dreams
She ran with abandon
Through the familiar scenes
Wonderful memories
All flooded the plain
Of the moonlit landscape
Of her imagined terrain
Across streams of lucidity
She transcended dimensions
Reaffirming her desires
She aligned her intentions
Accompanied by souls
Of a higher vibration
She healed the wounds
Of a past separation
Limitless possibilities
Permeated her skin
Revealing her purpose
Her true knowing within
They were pushing their prams
As if into the breach
Their pavement entitlement
All the slabs they could reach
Their obscenities of chat
Drowned the screams of their young
As they bowled out pedestrians
Into doorways, people flung
Their juvenile load
Just as wide as their cheek
And their rotund behinds
Left no ounce of mystique
Toddlers in hand
Yelled out vile abuse
High on the additives of sweets
And from E-number misuse
The collective day trippers
Gave them all a wide berth
Averting their eyes
For all they were worth
Judgement was laden
On superior trowels
From the middle-class shoppers
Scared of uttering, single vowels
Leave disbelief at the door
With your shoes and your socks
And walk fearlessly inside
This is a room with no locks
In this space we are equal
There’s no one to impress
If it makes you more comfortable
Then feel free to undress
Acceptance, the Grail
We all seek to attain
The many excuses we make
Become our only real bane
Take a look round the space
You think of as your mind
Explore all of the avenues
That your thoughts try to find
Suspend those connections
Hard wired and so false
We are not manmade objects
As we all have a pulse
Our literal world
Is fragmenting our spirit
Turning wondrous experiences
Into mere badges of merit
This journey we’re offered
Has no guarantee in place
Nor is it a trial to endure
Or a futile drag-race
We all rock in our own way
You have nothing to prove
So stop looking to others
To find your own groove
shiny pebbles 