Opposite Day

Opposite Day                      4/5/2016

Every day is opposite day

In a world turn upside down 

Unraveling and devolving 

Counter clockwise 

And down.  

If it feels strange 

Then you are not alone

You and me 

Strangers 

In a strange land.

If you have had the feeling 

Then you will understand 

What it feels like to try 

And sink under the waves.

Sometimes it feels like

You are not even here

When all your hopes, and dreams

Have all but disappeared.

Dying to the self

Is never easy at all 

As pride will always rise up

Over and over again. 

But, over time it hurts

Less and less

Until we become as nothing

Distant and subdued.

What we were 

Is all over now

Living only in memory

Alien and strange.

The learning was not easy

And it’s not over yet

As we live to be tested

And tested again.     

We cannot know 

What others must see

If they see at all

Self -absorbed

And blind.

We are the ghosts

Invisible and lost

Captives in a game

We can never win

 Alone.

Slugs crawling across broken glass

We survive against every odd 

Squirming up a drain pipe

Against a the gushing flood.   

Hanging by a thread

And holding on by a prayer

We have found each other
Intersecting by chance
In the deep wide open.  
 
We live 
Even if we die 
No matter how hard 
We will all rise together.

For I am not the only one
And neither also are you

Either stabbed by a gambler

Or robbed by a thief

We live by grace

Through the blackest of grief.

Do the opposite 

And live

Striking your mark

Against deceit.    

Diametrically opposed 

We must swim uphill 

Against many lies

The truth will prevail.