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loneliness is the greatest path
towards personal enlightenment;

when you sit at a mahogany circle
with your mind, heart, and soul,

you have no choice but to ask
for one of them to pass the wine.

No-One is there to help. in fact,
the best help is No-One's existence.


:::


beyond the forest, he saw the valley.
beyond the valley, he hoped for the river to run.
beyond the river to run, he saw the ocean
ready to be poured.

when he stood back,
this preacher saw the Promised Land.

he saw the green beauty
in a rusted, copper penny;

 oxygen breathed rust on this penny, yet to him,
it oxidized new, green life.

this preacher saw a Greater love
in a cent's worth of evil.


:::


turn off your lamps.
unplug the street lights from their places.

Mr. Lighthouse, sir, if you could be so kind
as to shut your eyes just this once?

why do we believe so much
in fear's brightness?

if we all, for a moment,
shut off all the lights,

we would see our starry reflections
shine more luminously under the charcoal sky.

the bravest action we may take
is flipping the switch.

go ahead. do it.

i dare your dark surrender.


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