SHADOWS of ALSORTS

We still need them - in 3D,

we’re born into and with them

affixed to our backs,

mostly out of reach and sight,

beyond our awareness,

or so easily forgotten,

immersed in the tentacles of fear and unknowing:

fears that are conditioned, inherited or experiential -

lacking courage, confused by

contradictions -

the reality and cruelty of the Absolute:

the utter loving Truth.

The mortal desire to find so-called peace and balance

(O little Libran)

by merging polarities,

comprehending extremities,

seeking, out of ignorance, to please, propitiate or prettify -

collude, comply, compromise

and hopefully whitewash,

with complicit wording:

the classic cover-up excuse

against namings such as coward, traitor, betrayer:

terror of being the (terrorist) victim in and of oneself.

Understanding is to know:

  a way to glimpse and grasp

the enormity and simplicity

of what is perceived as US -

the paradoxic shades of Self.