Seemingly . . .
Stress
Eats away at me
De-generatively.
Seemingly . . .
Thought returns,
Like a homing pigeon,
To the scene of its crime,
Continuously
Time after time.
Seemingly . . .
Feeling overwhelmed
By the Enormity
Of this struggle to
Survive
And the Will
To stay Alive.
Seemingly . . .
Arises the need to
Die;
Emotionally.
To what does one
Cling?
Hope has Nothing to
Bring.
Seemingly . . .
Depressed
Walking through this
Valley of Death
Enveloped by rock
In this Hard place to be.
Holy Shit,
Please don't call this
Reality!?
Seemingly . . .
Wanting to give up
The Ghost,
"Oh what's the use?"
Mothers Jarring Words
Reverberate once more.
Life
Has become just another
Empty Chore.
Hanging in there . . seemingly!
Seemingly . . .
The past
Haunts me
Constantly;
Life ostensibly in decay.
The future distant
Apparently Grey.
Simply Being,
I no longer
Know,
The Way
To go . .
Seemingly . . .
. . .1SeemingYogi2Many . . .
This reminds me of Tao Te Ching 45. So many things "seem" but it is the calm and tranquility that overcome. It even overcomes who we believe we may be and allows simply being.
ReplyDeleteHello Bill, very nice to have you pay a visit and make a comment!
ReplyDeleteI've just read verse 45 of Tao Te Ching, and I see what you mean...although I guess what I've written is open to some interpretation depending one's position and/or perspective etc.
I wonder just how many people would perceive it as negative(?), although it is, as you have rightly realised, a poem about balance, harmony and equilibrium...
...regardless of how things may appear, or seem, to others looking in from the outside ;-)
A nice post.It shows you are 'aware'...Nothing more to be desired.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
Thanks Surjit, yes, awareness 'is', regardless of what others, looking in from the outside, might think!
ReplyDeleteThis is just a poem of sorts ... just 'expression' in and of the moment, but when read over more than once, and on several sittings, it may be possible to move beyond the surface of it to its deeper message. Possibly...