reflection

I've been reflecting for weeks now, trying to make sense of things.  Not coming up with anything new with the human condition.  However, the thought did come to me....Pain makes us decide things.  It forces us to decide how we are going to think about life going forward.  Pain changes reality: the words we use, the way we look at people, the perspective on each experience of each moment.  It takes courage to decide to feel pain and even more courage to decide to think that there's hope within the pain or beyond the pain.  Who are the folks that are stronger? The ones that risk courage to hope for life again--when there is a different reality created because of the loss?  OR those who decide not to choose courage?  The loss of someone forces pain onto another person without their permission.  There are no choices.

NOW

daily grind
paper or plastic
shower, coffee, work....REPEAT
where's my heart
where's the end

silence and distance
hold words hostage
by choices of the other
ones that could help and heal

you dumped my value as trash by the side of the road
as you remained in presumed safety
behind the screen...
i pity you

where's YOUR life
protected by fear?
held by shame?

Truth is real life
allowing real love

Receive forgiveness for yourself

-Jesus