Purging Anger

Photo: Jamie K. Reaser

Witnessing Sin,

the forgotten Sacred Truth

of Self and Other.

Toxins in the water supply

and coursing the blood

of humanity

embodied and spilled.

A turning back.

Failure to see,

listen,

touch.

Suffering as an addiction

or currency.

Ego’s insatiable consumption.

Waste.

Insecurity of any kind.

The man,

woman,

child,

who takes dictation

and acts upon it.

The man,

woman,

child,

who dictates

and sacrifices

others at the altar

of his or her own neediness.

War as a pathway to Peace

or anywhere else.

Conditional

humanitarianism.

Love withheld.

Color sightedness.

Mimicry.

Gas prices

as a measure of

the quality of Life.

Numbness.

TV: a companion.

Judgment.

The concepts of

possession,

disposability,

and disobedience.

Friend-Stranger-Enemy.

Fear as the basis

for decision-making

in any context.

Hate crimes.

Heart crimes.

Criminality.

Caging.

Death and Life as penalties.

Unforgivable.

Shameful.

Impatience.

The lack of apology.

A lacking apology.

Apology for lacking.

Lack of acceptance.

No choice.

“No.”

“Can’t” and “Won’t.”

“Should” and “Must”

and their opposites.

“Please” as a grovel.

The wealth of poverty

and

the poverty of wealth.

Aloneness in

a world of six billion

and counting.

A perception that isolation

and solitude are one

the same.

The domestication of Spirit.

The silenced voice of Soul.

My own hypocrisy.

Bless me with a heart

big enough to

love my way through.

(c) 2003-2018/Jamie K. Reaser

Published in "Note to Self: Poems for Changing the World from the Inside Out"

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