{"id":156,"date":"2008-07-04T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog1\/?p=156"},"modified":"2008-07-04T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T23:57:00","slug":"poetry-i-know-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/poetry-i-know-who-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry (I know, who knew?)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Special<\/strong>
Through clouded eyes
I have always been special
Standing taller than half the world
Yet shorter than the rest
A lonely height, indeed<\/p>\n

No wit, nor speed, nor pain
Could match mine own
Superior, and broken, entwined<\/p>\n

Yet now
With eyes wide seeking
Pain lashing me forward
I seem quite ordinary<\/p>\n

As ordinary as a leaf
As ordinary as a stone
As ordinary as a rainbow<\/p>\n

Prison<\/strong>
Prisoner of my own mind
How do I embrace thee?
Turn the cold bars white with love?<\/p>\n

I shout at the wallsThe walls of my shouting
I wail at the lockThe lock of my hate<\/p>\n

Loathing hardens the bars
In love, they shimmer and mist<\/p>\n

If I loved my prison,
What then would I call it?Is it even mine
To worry after?<\/p>\n

She
<\/strong>I starve for her so
I taste mine own hunger
Craving her sweet breath
Her shampooed hair, wafting
Through my brain<\/p>\n

Dance free
Curve and sway
So I may be free
For I know not
Mine own dance<\/p>\n

Come, nameless one
Complete me
For I was born yearning
Let me suckle at the breast
I never had
And walk, with blind eyes
Past the Divine
WaitingWithin
And swaying with every leaf.<\/p>\n

Joy
<\/strong>What joy
To be aware
Cradled by the Universe
In a bed cloud
Or not<\/p>\n

Delicious thoughts
My private TV
Serving me<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start again
Hello, mind
I\u2019m David, or not<\/p>\n

Share your stories with me
Share your lives with me
Be just as you are (as if you could be anything other)<\/p>\n

I\u2019m listening now
Curiosity, a smile, replacing
blind belief<\/p>\n

Making Love<\/strong>
Diving to the depths of being
Souls unclothed
Pulsing
Our racing hearts
thumping in stillness<\/p>\n

Goddess
<\/strong>I began, as your teacher
A wise man,
with years to his name
A provider,
weighted by bags of gold<\/p>\n

I alone held the key,
to the gateway,
of your pleasure,
and the way to opening
Teacher, banker, landlord, pimp
Master, and owner<\/p>\n

And now, I find
through some whim of God\u2026<\/p>\n

My teachers cloak in shreds!
My years are as ash,
floating in the breeze by
your soaring wisdom
My gold lay in the gutter
as you glide past it,
in your own,
hard earned finery.<\/p>\n

Pleasure is yours,
as it ever was
to claim and flow
Your body a temple,
where others
may drink and tithe<\/p>\n

The chain of need smashed!
Shattered!<\/p>\n

No longer, a reason to stay.<\/p>\n

As you approached the oasis,
You saw your frailty
shimmer and mist.
A mirage,
nothing more.<\/p>\n

You walk alone
A Goddess resplendent
Radiant.<\/p>\n

I have no golden cuffs by which
to hold you.
No finery with which
to dazzle you<\/p>\n

I stand before you
Naked
Without even body
I lay down my wit, my charm
my special stories.
Neither teacher nor student.
Not provider nor beggar
No tantric guru or exclusive\u2026
exclusive\u2026
anything.<\/p>\n

All that\u2019s left,
is me.
laid bare.<\/p>\n

And now Goddess
With the world at your feet
And suitors flocking
I am astonished!<\/p>\n

As I find you walking freely,
by my side
in the garden of not knowing.<\/p>\n

I marvel
that you are here
And at last,
I see the true face
of love.<\/p>\n

by David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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