The Tears of a Smile Creator I wake this morning With seas moaning in my eyes As I call to you To honour you Vowing to work To blaze and be bright. I ask to be filled With strength to keep this flame in my heart Ever-burning In the midst of the winds of time Ever-burning So I can light up other candles just like mine. Oh Creator Be with me Make my love a spiral I cry Quivering like a child In the throes of the secret energy Bubbling in my belly. I wait Until my entire body Is suffuse with your shining Is touching the nectar… As tears overflow from my eyes I suddenly realize They are your tears You too are weeping for this shimmering felicity A part of you as I am me: Created And Creator. I cannot fathom This kiss on the lips of Goddess With the pegs of mind The branding of words Only with these tears Cajoling my sadness To smile…

With an eagle on my shoulder… We are not meant To play small, To give in To the negativity that wants to loot The temple of our being; When those tears start falling Don't be ashamed, Squeeze your suffering in embrace Until the last of them is cajoled to manifest; Until you're intimate With the pain that has truly sprung them, And you shall find there Not the mere devastation of love forlorn, Not the unyielding distance separating two hearts from coupling, Nor the anguish of watching the Middle East burning awake to despair, But the beautiful fragility of life itself Swaying in this irreducibly complex chain of cause and effect, Of death and all things bereft; Of the gasping gore of going in so deeply to things That there's really nothing left... For truly Our pain is so wrapped up in holding onto things That can never be held onto So why hold on? Why not Let go And just Flow… It's OK: I'm going to die too We all will And my heart's going to get broken beyond belief regardless Because whomever joins me in sacred love I will undoubtedly have to say goodbye to one day, I do know that we're best as warriors, Not fighting out there But in here Against illusions and all the barbwire besetting truth, Because we've been programmed to believe So many things And Kali is screaming through all of us To destroy, Not only to create but strip away, To bask in the benedictions Of what is natural, what is mutual Because nothing fell I repeat Nothing fell... No garden was turned asunder, Flowers are eternity’s nectar… Paradise is found in the moment we stop searching… Bliss is our birthright. You are heroic Each time you allow your heart to open, Passion Can make us strong, And we must become passionate In these sedated times Where even the things we look at are intoxicants Suffuse with subliminal black magic Addictions to what is tragic. Be strong But don't try Just be And you'll see. Wipe away All the conditioning, All the injected truth That the lost leaders have propagated 'All the words are messed up!' So redefine 'and the whole world's messed up!' Mess it up faster!!! I daresay the longer we hesitate the more we prolong The changes sweeping through And I no longer want to do it for me I want to do it for you And you And you... Don't ever, ever forget That you are not creating your world But THE world With every thought. Don't ever forget How powerful this makes each and every one of us And don't get me started on how powerful animals are ...another poem indeed! Let's start a revolution of consciousness NOW! By deciding how you want to be By deciding what world you wish to see By deciding what world will make certain Our children are free. Dream as big and wild as you can Each and every day cultivate the visions of your Deepest desires Depth equated with feeling, I mean the desires that create true happiness we all have them let's share them... and make them grow in the gardens of our world to blossom as the heavenly herbs kissed awake by Earth in the watery-fires of our abandonment to a universe of connection! We are unison A kiss bridled to stars And each breath A love poem written By galactic arms Our radiance is Eternity’s Infinity plays hide and seek With the dances of our dreams Let all fear come forth To be embraced By the inextinguishable flame And find the sacredness Looking always for you… ... I see what's happening in Israel & Palestine and no I am not ignoring it I am hoping, praying with as many moments that are at my disposal that we are close through the agony of suffering to understanding how precious life is how nationalities, religions, and bloodlines are obscuring a greater whole remember when we kill someone a part of us is also dying and that it doesn't matter if they killed your child and raped your mother by seeking revenge you are only going to set vengeance and death on your own children who is courageous enough to stop the madness? who is courageous enough to say the time for grieving is over and that I forgive the pain that has made you murderous and the loss of love that has made you think this world is devoid and demonic and that I know what it is to be wounded so let us weep together and drown in our sadness until we are one salving sea of tears and make room again for that something bigger that holds us all... because I love you whatever you are and whatever you did and that will never ever change... this my honour until death and into death...