dailydatewithgod

Giving up is not an option
or is it?
Some days feel like we’ve come undone
But I promise you little one
There is plenty to be done

To discover
To uncover
To be one over

It is our soul
It is our heart
It is the truth of who we are

Musings and fuming
comes along for the ride
Turning and cycling
Is part of the dive

Deep into the truth
Like the root of a tooth
Painful at times
But we learn to find

The rhythm to our rhyme
The way we can define
how best to realign
with how the divine
sees our eyes,
our ears,
even our emotions and fears
grumbling in our stomach
letting us know we are at a summit
We daringly climb
despite the twists and turns we will find

Trust me when I say
There is a greater way
For us to rise
To make hay
To step away
from who we thought we were
defined only by circumstance
which said we didn’t have a chance

Listen carefully
as I hold you gingerly
there will come a time
when you freely step back
able to trust in the fact
that I always have your back

Able to play
In unimaginable ways
Let go on the swings
Play hide and seek without the scary

Life will take on a new hue
And you will ask who
is defined by the circumstance

Not me

I am free
Able to be me
Enjoying me
Pleasuring me
Getting to know me
As more than who I thought I could be

Unwinding with time
we will find
what it means
to live and move free

Free in the body
dancing with the holy
A sacramental in motion
Beauty in flight
Without any notion
of ever being hindered by the night

When ideas are batched
and presented in a flash
It is hard to tell with the splash
if they are all matched

We find ourselves smashed
reacting to a gash
when what was hatched
was put together half-@$$

We lose our self-composure
With repeated exposure
Over and over
to content so polar
do we expect our psychomotor
to respond like it’s sober?

At best its mediocre
hopefully without an odor
possibly driven by a poser
known as a twitterosa

Ensconced in what’s trending
No point in mending
Leaving it all with an ending
we were not intending

Do we dare try to do better?
Maybe remove the pressure
Come back together
Remember the pleasure
of pausing long enough to measure
and strive with up to 280 letters
to match with a greater good endeavor

It’s the atmosphere
that causes me to fear
that what is in here
is not real

It appears
to be sincere
even when it steers
from the rear

It may sound severe
or tend to veer
Away from the reel
of what is revealed

Is it more cavalier
Like some souvenir
easily disappeared
from the biosphere

They seem insincere
when they persevere
like a pioneer
of yesteryear

Blasting like an auctioneer
attempting to commandeer
how we will feel
when we believe the reel
of all there is to fear
is all that is there
and the only thing real

Dare to unveil
What only your heart can cohere
Outside the sphere
of the mind’s unending spiel
all the things to fear

Step into the gear
where what you can here
embodies the veneer
encouraging you to volunteer
for living in the stratosphere
not governed by fear

What does it mean to own?
Is it the same as to possess
Or refer to what’s honed?

How does one know
what we really own?
Purchased or bought
Or brought about by thought?

Does it only count if stated and spoken
to all who are woken
up by the same frame of mind?

Or can it be heard
by those not on board
Coming from a different frame
Maybe even looking to blame
Someone or something else
believed to be causing
one to feel less sense of self

A feeling of not owning
because we are not honing
what it means to be real
according to what is in our own reel

How long can we go along
pretending to function
by an obligatory notion
that there is something inherently wrong
like some kind of malfunction

As if God messed up
and created a bunch of muck
when God meant to design
beings like good wine

We have not yet acquired the taste
to detect the wine from grape
So each time we partake
we find it to be a mistake

Willing to change our palette
allows us to stop approaching life with a mallet
ready to stomp out the whatchamacallit
standing outside the packet
like some kind of racket

In the end, the only thing we own
is not what messes with our flow
but in our approach to the zone
showing how much we have honed
our willingness to grow

Does focusing on what is unbecoming
keep us from becoming

what we want to be
what we can be
what we are meant to be
are not there endless possibilities?

If the focus is on avoiding the gauche
Will we lose what can be coached?

Why not point our minds
To what we can find
Within ourselves
Like exploring hidden shelves

If we fear being maladroit
Will we miss what we can exploit?

Why not point our minds
To what we can find
Within ourselves
Like exploring hidden shelves

Avoiding being labeled salacious
Keeps away the discovery of the gracious

Why not point our minds
To what we can find
Within ourselves
Like exploring hidden shelves

Getting rid of the tacky
Disconnects us from our sense of wacky

Why not point our minds
To what we can find
Within ourselves
Like exploring hidden shelves

Outside the confines
of acceptability
Into the gold mines
Of our express-ability

Is not the true possibility
The opportunity to see
How much the world needs
What in our hearts makes us we

Why does the word exposure
seem so much more vulgar
then the word disclosure?

Both are conveying the idea
of what it means to reveal
Both create the same ending
But not the same feeling

One comes from the outside in
The other from the inside out
Who knew different letters make that come about?

Do you have a preference?
One to which you show deference?

Are you more likely to align
With one that sounds like a sign
hanging outside your mind
Or the one more benign
Because you simply speak your mind

Exposure versus Disclosure
Life happens to us versus life happens for us?
Are we the victim or the advocate
From where do we postulate?

Only the substance of the matter
Determines whether it scatters,
shatters,
or flatters

Does the decision to disclose
come from the desire to control
what could be exposed?

Exposure or disclosure
which causes your heart’s closure?

Do you ever wonder
what happens when we’re done?
The drive for completion
seems to never be won

Once we’re done
There is more to do
so how can we be done
if it never actually comes

I sense a bigger question
my mind in gestation
Words of frustration
Bring about contemplation

A world in search of done
never reaching completion
It’s no wonder the frustration
feels the only thing won

The wise say it is the journey that counts
Counts towards what?
Is there a certain amount?
How many journeys count?

You can see the confusion
Is it all an allusion
to the power of illusion?
Or not measured by the mind
which sees one more time
No matter how much we’ve done
It is never done until we’re done

We never know how many bends
show up on the journey to the end
And who’s to say where we actually begin?
Could the supposed end
be the very spark
for things to start somewhere else again?

Somewhere on the inside
A journey not seen from the outside
Deep to the core
A spot too sensitive to ignore
Where we move in the space
Between sanctity and grace

A place not limited by time
It is the space for the mind
replaced by the heart’s mind

Knowing its done,
though it does not matter.
Its work creates a rhythm
Measured by beats not matter.

A resonance wave of lives
touched by what truly matters,
because one more of us in matter
turned our journey to the core
and faced a spot too sensitive to ignore.

We chose to learn a dance
in the rhythm and the pace
finding our beat by chance
between sanctity and grace.

The world is full of many places
We can live in all kinds of spaces
Whether cityscapes or landscapes
Where will you put your stake
and create your space?

Is it in Electricity
Or are you drawn to Rhythmicity
Or it’s sister city of Synchronicity?

A place like Overcapacity
can make it seem like you are in Ferocity.

Are you seeking Rusticity
to explore Toxicity?

A place like Pugnacity
can have you feeling like you live in Audacity

Be mindful that Centricity
is on the way to Egocentricity
which leads to Scarcity
and before you know it you are in Multiplicity

Maybe seek out Neuroplasticity
It’s nowhere near Spasticity
You’ll find it by way of Elasticity
And on the edge of Vivacity

Where will you start?
Where will you go?
There is of course,
one ultimate goal

Find the place
The city space
Where you choose
to put down roots
Claim you stake
and create your space

Don’t be fooled by the signs
Despite all the chatter
The city does not matter
It’s about the state . . . of our minds

Bravery and toughness
Strength and stamina
We herald the heroes
Who have it all in place

Fortresses and walls
Demarcation of bounds
Stiffer up lips
Armored from inside halls

Guarded and braced
Not sure what we’ll face
Only certain this will not be
The thing that breaks me

We hear it like a drum
pounding in our head
Repeating the messages
one beat at a time
Making for a lifeline
Where all is always fine

Keep focused on the outside
A little tighter on the armor
It might be a threat
If you let ’em see the sweat

Harder and tighter
Keep driving it home
One more beat
And you’ll be the beast

The beast you see
Is not you and me
The beast you fear
Are your own tears
The ones dripping
Down your tense face
From holding so tight
To save your place
A place in a world
Where no one wants to be
Who they are designed to be

Alas, there is more

Another place
Not lined with wire
but courage is required
The only fence
is letting go of pretense

A place on the inside
Where there is more than one side
Unblocked and unframed
Breakable and undefended
Soft and gushy
Flowing with breath
Cycling through stagnation
Beating to its own drum
It is an entirely different station
Not on the same tracks
It’s Grand Central Station
of your heart.

Next stop: vulnerability

The in-between
or in betwixt
The spaces uninhabited
like a black hole

How do we know
If it is a hole
Or just a word
to fill in a verb

Energy vibrates
We like to calibrate
Give it measure
So we know if we can treasure

Fixated on knowns
Afraid of the void
Stuck on our owns
The rest we’ll avoid

Encountering mystery
brings too much history
Past transgression
of being fooled into submission

Someone with a louder voice
Coaxing us on their path
Not giving us the choice
or even a chance
To sit with the between
See what it might mean
Wriggle through discomfort
Attempt to confront
Spaces dark and unknown
Inside of our own

Easier to believe
Those who say they can see
better than we

What if their say
Is made up play
Their best attempt
To make sense
of their inner contempt

Striving and longing
to feel less fear
about the holes in life
that are just there