The detritus of a deranged world,

errors from an ancient past

dripping off those wringing cold comfort from 

the separation,

the insane rules

the unrelenting abuse

the unworthiness

seared into brains from a lifetime

of corrupted culture,

toxic media

ghoulish religions

pathological agendas

This is what your life should look like! This is what relationships look like!

Not transcendence, expansion, reflection

but limits, confinement, entropy

Long-dead voices reverberating between the ears

creating distortion, confusion, pinhole vision

warped thoughts and acidic voices that 

will not rest

until you’ve given up any chance for authentic connection

With Self

With Another

With Earth

too frozen to risk finding it, instead

hiding in a fragile shell,

wrapped in filmy delusion

believing it’s your choice

believing it’s “working”

 yet in the silence, Listen!

A hum, a whisper,

that which animates all,

ever so softly suggesting you could

break free

but do you want to

do you want to?

It’s not hard

just scary and

there’s no net

and you have to step over the edge