"conditionality" poems
Conditionality (All love is conditional)
All love is conditional.
Even unconditional, a state in and of itself, is conditional.
So many love in silence, or unrequited,
or fear expressing the finest emotion, less rejected,
And precurse it by commencing with,
If.
And that is the worst condition of all.
When she whispers I love you,
And I ask each time, Why,
She answers me the same,
Just because....
And as I ponder that, I realize,
That is the only answer in the universe of words
that is without even a hint of jasmine, of cinnamon,
or conditionality.
Happily, I have proven myself wrong, yet once more...
8:48am
June 2
Jun 2, 2013
Jun 2, 2013 at 8:55 AM UTC
A borrowed history
A second-hand life
A true heritage denied.
This stranger sapling grafted to your family tree.
And the story told, to them and me;
" You were chosen, you are special, we were lucky..."
So you won.
Here's your prize;
A commodity baby, a charity child
Love conditionality and gratitude implied.
Woken from connection and amniotic peace
To a secret story of threefold grief.
Nov 3, 2020
Nov 3, 2020 at 7:12 PM UTC
Having gone unnamed...
there's a type of intimacy that's
unbearable...what the heart meant
to say, overcome with saying.
In a peopled world of degreed
dearness...meaning is many.
That look, that gesture, that touch,
that word...all full, all empty.
The rawness of conditionality
scared to death of change, which
is death itself.
All feeling is painfully aware of the
inability to take hold...
the outline of the
heart is: I can't let go...the heart
of the heart: I let go.
Sep 20, 2015
Sep 20, 2015 at 4:27 PM UTC
“The Only philosophy which can be responsibly practiced in face of
despair is the attempt to contemplate all things as they would present
themselves from the standpoint of redemption. Knowledge has no light but
that shed on the world by redemption: all else is reconstruction, mere
technique. Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the
world, reveal it to be, with its rifts and crevices, as indigent and distorted
as it will appear one day in the messianic light. To gain such perspectives
without velleity or violence, entirely from felt contact with objects – this
alone is the task of thought. It is the simplest of all things, because the
situation calls imperatively for such knowledge, indeed because
consummate negativity, once squarely faced, delineates the mirror-image
of its opposite. But it is also the utterly impossible thing, because it
presupposes a standpoint removed, even though by a hair’s breadth, from
the scope of existence, whereas we well know that any possible knowledge
must not only be first wrested from what is, if it shall hold good, but is also
marked, for this very reason, by the same distortion and indigence which it
seeks to escape. The more passionately thought denies its conditionality for
the sake of the unconditional, the more unconsciously, and so
calamitously, it is delivered up to the world. Even its own impossibility it
must at last comprehend for the sake of the possible. But beside the
demand thus placed on thought, the question of the reality or unreality of
redemption itself hardly matters.”
~Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia
May 12, 2015
May 12, 2015 at 11:44 PM UTC
When I am crippled by the fear
Of what others may think of me
The kind teacher speaks these words:
*Your power lies within you.
Life endowed you eons ago.
Your work today is to know this deeply.
Your power does not lie in the minds of others - you do not need their approval for what you already posses.
As you practice today keep your attention on giving, on being generous without the conditionality of it being reciprocated.
In this moment now and in this breath you are free.*
MChallis @ 2015
Jan 16, 2015
Jan 16, 2015 at 4:45 PM UTC
Constantly accommodating conditionality
has steadily become entirely intolerable,
thus this premonition of exquisite repose
grants my psyche an opportunity to rejoice.
Nov 3, 2021
Nov 3, 2021 at 11:02 AM UTC
Your power lies within you. Life endowed you eons ago.
Your work today begins with knowing this deeply.
Your power does not lie in the minds of others,
you do not need their approval for what you already posses.
As you practice today keep your attention on giving,
on being generous without the conditionality of it being reciprocated.
In this moment now and in this breath you are free.
MChallis © 2014
Oct 8, 2014
Oct 8, 2014 at 5:30 PM UTC