Turbulence

Turbulence 10/22/2014

Close your eyes and be still

Long enough

To notice, think, and feel

And then you can hear the echoes

Of other lives, yet unfulfilled.

Moaning over loss

And staggering cruelty

Unwritten and unremembered

A thousand years or more. 

There are always other things

Than what we wish were true

As the dirt in our eyes

Stings even more

When we wash it out. 

What we have seen, is nothing

Compared to what is coming

And whoa to them

That refuse to accept 

Obvious truth.  

Today we live through

The same day again

Just like yesterday

And the day before.

But the outcome

Remains changeable

Depending on what we do

And how we react.

We can weave through it

Unencumbered and easy

Swimming in the mainstream

Unimpeded by obstacles

Or Turbulence.

Or we can go uphill

Against the current

Wrestling with reality

And all that it entails.   

It is a hard thing

To keep on trying

Flinging ourselves upwards

Bloodied, bruised, and exhausted.

But try we must

Lest we float with the deadwood

And smash

Against the rocks. 

What is easy, is a trap

And what is acceptable, a snare

As we pour ourselves out

For nothing at all. 

Now is the time

To try something different

To turn the tables upside down 

To see the other side.    

When we open our eyes

The game is reset

And we live on, until it changes

Either for good

Or for bad. 

We could go down

Or we could go up

But he who discerns the truth

Resolute and unashamed

Shall live forever.