Hallway to Nowhere

Tag: peace

  • A Complicated Death (Poem)

    How to mourn you?

    Only with detachment can I find room

    For kindness and compassion towards you.

    You struggled just as all do,

    And I wish to think you did your best.

    Some of your actions and words still linger with gray-tinged hurt,

    But now I can feel sorrow over these rather than resentment.

    When I speak at your service,

    I will recount one of the few memories I have

    That cast you in your best light.

    May you find in this death peace from suffering,

    An end to chasing illusory dreams, and the fade of your red anger.

    I laid down the burden of these long ago.

    Now may you do the same.

  • Stillness & Movement (Poem-PouncePunk Art Challenge)

    How to find a still mind?

    Try being aware of movement,

    The ever-flowing change that is always occurring.

    Take the body, for example.

    Even in the midst of the deepest meditation or dreamless state,

    There are infinite shifts taking place.

    Cells replace themselves; breath moves in and out; the heart beats; and so on.

    Similar processes happen across the physical world,

    From the most minute particles all the way to vaster aspects of slow relentless geologic change.

    Accepting this impermanence with equanimity

    And relinquishing the notion that this will stop in any way

    Provides a space to relax and rest with a sense of ease.

    This will also evolve but observe with detachment.

    Nothing (and everything) lasts forever. This need not cause suffering.

    Find the path to peace and joy.

  • 100 Seconds To Midnight (Poem)

    We look around at a landscape

    Forever altered by the presence of nuclear weapons.

    We stand and wonder,

    Where is our home? And who will lead us there?

    We hear the inexorable ticking of the clock

    As it moves closer to midnight.

    Do not turn away and hide.

    That seems the easy path, but it is futile.

    We must open our eyes, our ears, our hearts, and our minds

    To join together to repair this broken world.

    The varied clothing of our differences-

    Be they religion, skin color, nationality or any other-

    Does not change our relation underneath.

    Everyone is part of the family of humanity.

    Let us choose life, so that all might live.