Just cause life's electric doesn't mean the lights don't flicker

I'm surrounded

By family

And friends

And people

And places

And objects

And I see them

But don't feel them

Don't feel their connection to me, and mine to them

Not when I'm like this

Not when my mind is here

Not there with them and all that is

That is where it should be

But it's hard

You know

I hope you do...I hope someone does

Then I could feel them

I don't want to feel the heaviness

I want the light shine and weightlessness of joy

I guess you don't feel the rock underneath you, like you do when it is overhead

Funny how that is

We strive for joy and love and peace, but the pain and sad is what sticks

And gets us stuck

I hope I'm not stuck

And I don't think I am...really...but I worry

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