The Connection

Wires and plugs,
phones and towers,
trees and roots.
Connection.

Word and thought,
thought and act,
act and word.
Connection.

Friend and friend,
friend and foe,
man and woman.
Connection.

We are perfection. We are totality.
Stuff of nightmares or heavenly dreams.
Stuff of nightmares and heavenly dreams.
We are one, can you feel it?
We are one, and we go on forever.
We are one, and we can never die.
Feel how I am in you, and you are in me,
and we are in us.

Feel that spark and connection.
Feel us run together,
until you are me and I am you,
and we contain the world between us.
We are the nightmare fiercer than death,
we are the sweetness of every day.
We are terror.
We are ecstasy.

You will join us in the end.
You've already joined us.
Tell us about your freedom.
Tell us about your choice.
Tell us about your independence.
We gave them all to you.
It was our connection
that gave them to you.

Wires and plugs,
phones and towers,
trees and roots.
Connection.

Word and thought,
thought and act,
act and word.
Connection.

Friend and friend,
friend and foe,
man and woman.
Connection.

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Chill of Fall

Feel the chill across your face,
the ice that sinks deep,
that works its way into your beating heart
and makes the world go shivery.
What's that fall-feeling?
Something in the chill,
something in the changing leaves.
Something that draws us out
and makes us feel like children again.

We're so small, all of us
with our hands joined in a big circle.
Can't you hear us laughing?
We're all just little girls and boys,
dancing together on the sunset grass.
Just singing together on the sunset grass...
Red sunset. Chill sunset.
Red as the crunching leaves and cool,
cool as the wind on our faces.

Feel that chill across your face,
the chill of tomorrow's cold.
So cold. So very cold.
So very cold as ice and death.
Why do we imagine death as cold?
Death like the end of everything.
Death like a frozen blast.
Death like...

Enough. There's no death here.
There are only children dancing,
so small with the chill wind on your face.

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Simple

Life is simple.
Find a goal and achieve it.
If there's an obstacle, overcome it.
When you're afraid, keep going.
When you're knocked down, get up.

Don't complicate things.
It's a trap.
It's a tempting trap.
Your world must have only three things:
yourself, your goal, and your obstacle.

You must become purpose incarnate.
You are here to bring your will to reality.
You must regain your original purity.
You must stamp out the animal in you.
You must make your body pure instrument, simple tool.

The goal does not matter.
The goal is all that matters.
Choose it and move toward it.
Choose it and achieve it.
Achieve it and move on to the next goal.

The obstacle is everywhere.
It's within you.
It's outside of you.
You must overcome it at every turn.
You must not allow it to defeat you.

You must never ask why.
The word no longer exists for you.
There is no why.
There is only how.
How will you reach the next goal?

Kill the part of you that hesitates.
Kill the part of you that doubts.
Kill the part that longs for comfort.
Kill the part that pines for pleasure.
Kill the part that is not your will.

Life is simple.
Feel the simplicity of a circle.
The simplicity of a flower in bloom.
The simplicity of a sheet of ice.
The simplicity of simple purpose.

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To a Man With a Hammer...

Speak to say?
Or speak to speak?
Mean to mean?
Or mean to do?
But if you do, you've got to mean,
and if you mean you've got to say.
(Which in the long run makes poetry writing difficult,
because poetry's all about a million effects
that don't really fall under the domain of "purpose.")
I guess it's about expression,
but expression for its own sake is a luxury,
almost a vice.

A housepainter probably isn't too impressed
when he goes to an art gallery,
if you take my meaning.
What matters about the hammer is that it drives nails.
What matters about light is that it shines in darkness.

If there's anything great about the human race,
it's that they invented straight lines.

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Slip Into Sweetness

Slip into perfect calm, sweet emptiness,
lovely chance to let it all go away.
Remember it's okay to relax.
Remember that you can relax.
Remember you can let go for a while.
There's a little terror in letting go,
because you're afraid you'll never get it back again.
But it's okay to let go.

It's good to be able to control yourself,
and it's good to find direction.
But not every moment needs direction.
Not every moment needs a purpose.
You can relax that hold on yourself
enough to remember:
there's more to life than purpose.
There's more to life than pursuing a goal.

(Not that I can tell you what it is...)
It's just so nice to go easy on yourself, sometimes,
although more often it's a nightmare.
Take a little and it's nice,
take a lot and it's a recipe for one hell of a hangover.
Which shouldn't be a problem, really.
But what makes it a problem is that
you always want to take a lot.

So you push yourself to be better
because you can't let that part of yourself win.
You have to keep pushing
because that part of you wants to give up.
You can't listen to that voice.
But you have to know
it's okay to let it slip sometimes.
It's okay to relax.

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