You cannot blame
hypocrisy on those
Who cannot listen
to their own truths
You cannot hold someone
accountable to their actions
Until you can be
accountable for your own
You cannot see
what is in plain sight
If you vision is contaminated
by your own appearance
You cannot claim to be
a philanthropist
When giving accompanies
a powerful motive
We’ve thought ourselves into a corner
Got ourselves in a really tight bind
By believing we know all the answers
That we can implement change, with our mind
Society is festering, in stagnation
Beyond the hype, there is rot at its core
Our days of denial are numbered
Our shelf-life, is indefinite no more
There really is, only so much thinking
That can carry, the almighty weight
Of the lumbering, half-asleep masses
Who must be woken, before it’s too late
To take stock of their need to accumulate
To displace their own feelings of guilt
Which ironically create far more problems
In this foundation-less world we have built
Who are they, banking all of the billions?
That are bringing this world to its knees
To whom do we owe all this money?
It’s time to reveal, the greedy loanees
We all have a choice not to follow
But it requires us to face our worst fear
And to see that it’s all an illusion
When we do that, it will all disappear
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
The intuitive mind floats adrift from our thoughts
Yet in harmony with its coastal tide
At one with the unfolding, natural course
The point where your truth, it cannot hide
The intuitive mind cannot be coerced
Nor reached through intelligence alone
Impressions are formed, they light up the dark
In oneness, you need never atone
The intuitive mind has no motive in life
No outcome it seeks to reveal
It flows with the cycles and rhythm of time
To bring forth, what you cannot conceal
The intuitive mind has compassion and love
Stands evolved, with humility in place
Understands we’re all human, expanding within
Contentment reached, with dignified grace
Is a well meaning gesture
A smile etched across lips?
Totally surrounded, yet separate
Standing hands upon hips
Neither broken, nor whole
As I wander unseen
Without thought, without direction
A confined quarantine
Day to day living
Weightless in its appeal
Not a slight indentation
Nothing left to reveal
Dreams far more engaging
Show futility in routine
Such meaningless chitchat
Forges a reality unseen
The depth that I seek
Once expectation is removed
Reveals the script of my life
Nothing needs to be improved
So I turn and look back
And take ownership of me
Releasing all that’s not mine
I become who I should be
shiny pebbles 