philosophy

Today You Triumpth

Something about living right feels so amazing
Once that inner fire is lit, just let it keep blazing
No, the road isn’t easy to allow your heart to keep displacing
All your fears and doubts before life starts fading
It’s the heres and nows that require your attention
This very moment is the ultimate lesson
Not yesterday
Not tomorrow
Today is the moment to no longer borrow

For time is not a currency that can be repaid
Dreams are meant to be lived
Not merely stashed away
Hoping for another day
Praying for the energy to come your way

You don’t exist alone and you’re not the only one
Who has unfinished business with matters of the heart
Take these words in and let them kickstart your path to playing the better part
As we’re all just acting between the roles of hero and villain
Often depending on the day, it’s one way or the other
For one reason or another, we either triumph or we suffer

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Photographer: Chris Sardegna

 

Happiness Resonation

We are the universe
Among these stars lay our own verse
Of a song sung by everything in existence
Every breath of life dancing to each passing instance
Of impending death advancing, yet still in the distance

The line between where we start and where we end
Is as blurry as it’ll ever be, to know is just pretend
For in this very second
This fleeting moment of time
Here is consciousness aware of being alive
Able to experience the days and the nights
The darks and the lights
Wrongs and rights
All seem to come together
When understanding one does not exist without the other
As ‘yes’ is what gives meaning to the definition of ‘no’
To understand hot, you must also think of cold
A persistent polarity revealing the secrets I wish to know

That a life of happiness can only be led by living one with sadness in tow
While resonating with our World, and always choosing to grow

Embracing Dreams

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What we need is some inflation
Of positive sensation
As we’re growing in this nation
A nation of once slave owners
Once blatantly segregated
Yet now that the visible walls are down
It’s time to break the ones that can’t be seen
To move beyond frames of mind which embody racism and hatred

A scene of obscene lack of empathy
As if people don’t care to be one connected family
On this tree of biological entities
In an existence marked by the intersection of the emotional and the logical
The true and nonsensical

Where we have more power than we think
To change and affect the flow of our human race
To champion a cause
Bringing meaning to our Place
Not through demeaning based on a face
But through acting with Love
With the whole world embraced

 
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Photo: Samuel Zeller

Fractal of Life


Patterns
Series and sequences
Turning in all directions
Containing no meaning until cognizant perceptions
Visible connections
Audible reflections of the vibration that surrounds us
Everything linked in this World of the Wondrous
Look around and you too will see
The ever-present work of Love, this desire to be free
To aspire to be me
Continually growing into my potential to become as bright as the shining Sun
Sharing warmth and comfort to those who’ve just begun
Not stressed enough to forget about the fun
As these fleeting moments end just like they begun
Here for a second, and now already done

Synchronous Emotions

You’re not expected to do this alone
Pushing back against the darkness all on your own
Coldness surrounding, finding it difficult to be bold
Difficult to hold onto calm states of mind
Resisting the urge to let life leave you behind
Struggling to surface above rough waters too high

Though the journey is greater than the destination
It doesn’t make the pain any less frustrating
For as much as I want to move forward
I desire to fall back
Self-damaging choices bringing my ideals under attack
As if I wasn’t grateful for all that I have
I still can’t help but feel crushingly sad

That’s when I remember
This pain was never meant to be borne as one
Together we empower each other
Just like the warming from our Sun
With the responsibility to be open and honest
As we progress through our darkness
With various moments of fleeting bliss
A chance to show this truthfulness
That Love is the ultimate light to our wishes
The guide to our visions
And in working together
We lessen our fissions

Behind the Scenes

Dreams require more
Than empty thoughts
And weak wishes
You know it’s not just time
That cleans your dirty dishes
More than just time
Precedes their completion
It’s chosen action
With careful precision
Exertion of effort
Guided by a vision

Between your desire to grow
And your capacity for apathy
Use this time to write the words that you need to see
If you truly wish to realize all your soul’s dreams
Then you must always invest effort behind all your own scenes

Lift Yourself Up

What if I tore these walls down
Smiles of plenty masking hidden frowns
Sadness growing and loneliness creeping up on me
As it just seems hard to keep up
With each act, each charade
Walking as if my life’s a parade
While breaking on the inside
What if I could confide in you
My deepest insecurities
The strongest uncertainties

What would happen
If I didn’t act so tough
If I broke down when life got rough
Tears of plenty, afraid of finding love

As I can now see there exists a part of me
That doesn’t wish to succeed
That doesn’t appreciate being freed
That welcomes self torment as the seeds
To stirring a growing darkness
The lonely bliss
Of being torn between wishing to care
And instead choosing none of this

It’s time to accept this part of my soul
But still it’s only one aspect of a total whole
For my internal conversation consists of more than one role
More than one voice at play
Able to make the choice today
Deciding love through a writer’s way
Crafting the words that I need to say

Gearing my consciousness in the right direction
Leading my path down the road of affection
Continuous lessons, spontaneous blessings
Able to be proudly confessing
A weakened state of mind with the pressing desire
To light an inner fire
As I aspire to lift myself higher

 

Detangled

So blessed
Miraculously grown with love as my crest of arms
Protected from life’s harms
By a core sense of love
Through the pain and hate
I still feel as if there’s a reason beyond our fate
That before you look to the future
Remember this moment is the opportunity
To continue to be
A conduit of love
Sharing good vibes while rising above
The herd mentality of hating
The banality of blaming
External variables for internal perspectives
Remembering the lessons
That life can be viewed from more than one angle
So decide which is best before getting all tangled

#Friendship


I couldn’t even come close to this moment
Without people beholden
To helping out
No end game in mind
No con, no gimmick
Just a friend who gave his or her
Advice, help and most importantly friendship
Keeping me in their minds as well as their hearts
So when they saw an opportunity and thought of me
Inevitably they let me know
Gave me a chance to grow
That I never would have had otherwise
This is true bliss actualized

Knowing I got a friend who’s got my back
So I can get back to living life
Not like an attack on the impossible
But rather embracing Love of what’s already on the table
Using this energy to fuel a sense of growth
Not worried about numbers or measurements
As there’s no standardized way to test this
Habitual sense of greatness comes one step at time
One line of a rhyme
Connecting two distant minds
Through choosing to shine
Letting music unwind tense shoulders and stressed spines
As we’re all just trying to find
A little relief from a Universe that mystifies the mind

Yet at the same time
Here we are in this together
Sharing experiences just like the weather
With each passing moment
A chance to make it better

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Photographer: Brett Davies

 

Nitrogen Wishes

What if I told you I don’t always feel like an optimist
That beyond the fog and growing mist
A doubt still holds on to any sense of stable understanding
Briefest sanity shakes on loosest standing

This must be the consequence of identifying
Our plot-line of stories intertwined
As part of Humanity of a total whole
A conflicted history of which the victors wrote
An ever-changing tale of Yes and of No
Cognizant of choices resonating with my soul
My flow
Amazingly aware in what it means to grow
That if you put effort into your life
You could reap what you’ve always sown

But this lack of guarantee doesn’t give me the thrill
That a roll of dice for a dollar surely will
Instead, an uncertainty grows, impossible to kill
Doubt overwhelming when contemplating my free will
For the answers remain elusive
No one knows the truth underneath
And yet I attempt to preach with such capacity
Such audacity to take this electronic megaphone to the world
And write as if I’ve got it all figured out
That when all is said and done, I’ve conquered all my doubts

I’m here to say that’s farthest from the truth
This battle between confidence and uncertainty
Lingers long beyond my youth
Let me announce that I have no answers
I merely seek to craft thoughts into rhymes
As recently it’s been the best way to calm my mind
So many questions and answers to find
Yet none available, we remain oh! so blind
To what is truly underneath
The atoms of bed sheets
The air of which we breathe

Science and philosophy still falling short
In the realm of understanding totality of existence
With polarity in persistence
Of patterns and opposites
Lightness and darknesses
Suffering alongside this one bliss
Every breath of air the chance for a new wish
A fresh sense of courage for the story still unfinished
Comprised of the hero with a heart not diminished
But rather, still focused on making growth his one mission

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Photographer: Lee Scott