left alone
     I drift
          into helplessness
my potential
     turning in
          grating
               struggle

The knock at the door
     breaks the spell
          and I can begin
               again

This is a Poem
   It is quite a thing
Wandering amongst the lilies
   Pondering life's sting

I stand next to a leaf
A simple manifestation
Billions of years
Trial and error
Evolution outcompeting entropy
The promise of a future
When I open my eyes
I can see

Trust is rare
In this world of trauma
Expediency valued
Above all else

Everything becomes story
A woven tapestry
Meant to deceive
Meant to divide

This must end
One way or another
In transcendence
Or annihilation

How many among us
Will be left to witness
The new age
The age of trust

A simple change
A choice
Starting a new path
Off the tracks of inevitability
A new journey of discovery

in the first place
there is I
the I is am
and it is all

in the second place
there is heart
bringing shape texture
and context to being

in the third place
there is mind
spinning story creating want
and now there is never enough

trapped by illusion
the borders immutable
back and forth
without escape

if only i could see
the bigger picture
the border but a frame
to hold the illusion

change my frame of reference
and i am free