Friday, December 23, 2022

Taskmaster


When one connects conscious awareness to the parts
and to the whole of the body, stillness is.

From the deep then arises the true next step,
for he who waits and listens.

Where there is no need,
thence can the true flower bloom.

***************************************************

The eager taskmaster sees any undone task
as an unwanted evil, and reacts to it
by seeking a rapid resolution.
With automatic and ruthless demeanor,
he whips us with urge and anxiety
until all tasks are complete.
And if he achieves an empty tasklist,
his relief is short, for his worth depends on his utility,
and quickly the task then becomes
to find other tasks to pursue.

It is our role to steady his urgent impulse,
and to show him the way of patience
again
and again
and again.a

Friday, December 9, 2022

The motive of action

 



The motive of action is either without or within the actor.

A motive without draws him as if tugging at his reactions,
as a flame to a moth. The actor neither wills it nor
understands it, but is compelled to act by the
tensions unresolved in his subconscious.

An actor thus motivated acts not truly on his behalf - his
will is weaker than his tensions. And if he reaches his goal,
past a temporary relief and satisfaction of his tensions,
the actor is no freer than he was before. Only understanding
the dynamic that brought him to react and be compelled, and
by accepting this subconscious trigger as part of his being,
can be bring light to this forgotten part of him, and
bring it resolution and free flow. Once he understands
it clearly, the tension can no longer impose on his will.

A motive within is an engine that powers the deeds of the doer,
fueled by clear understanding.
His deeds are powered by the aspiration to move closer to a
perceived idea - not for the sake of accomplishment, but as a
natural outgrowth of his expression.

An action thus motivated indeed finds goals to achieve and
may reach them, but they are not an end. They are rather
milestones that the actor sets upon his way to guide him.
They are secondary to the driving motivation, and as such,
they are reached, unreached, or changed according to the
circumstances, without undue satisfaction, disappointment,
or frustration. And when they do manifest,
they are eventually overridden by the inner drive produced
by the motive from within.

horse

the wild horse
does not acquiesce to being ridden
and acts out against the will of its new rider.

it cries and neighs and leaps
anxious to throw the rider off
if he can.

but a rider firmly saddled
onto his three points of anchor
remains astride.

And then the rider and horse
fastened firmly together
must live in joined aliveness
though their joining may feel weak.

step by step the rider
learns how to ride the horse
to feel its limbs,
to move them,
and then with them, move himself.


turn left, turn right. go straight, upright,
the horse begins to yield,
but rebel thoughts will yet remain
while it is still being tamed.
then rider then* learns how to
feel what the horse feels.
the subtle tweaks of balance,
the quiet signals of chance and danger
the rider learns to find.

the horse will get accustomed
to follow the will of this man.
But while he doesn't know
why this is so
he remains a doubting slave.

the horse may find joy in running
the wild steppes the man wills,
and he may be drawn to wonder
when the rider takes him up new hills
or trains him to surmount obstacles
or imposes novel wills.
the horse lives, yes, a rich life
but he knows not what it's for.
and while he's trained, this is the case,
he needs to grow while the man explores.

eventually the horse grows strong and smart
he knows the lows and the highs
but without the causing meaning,
his trust not complete.
skills well trained and grown in strength
the horse believes himself free
yet remains the nag of the forgotten rider...
why the heck is he still there?

I've long followed your guidance,
and a slave still I am.
Now tell me, what's the meaning,
the purpose of it all?

the man with gladness answers
but cannot answer with words,
for words fall short of meaning,
the core meaning to be found.

the rider guides him places
where the horse can gather hints.
impulses that aim to balance
the horse's focus on self-growth.

the proud horse is led to failure,
the paining one to relief.
Whatever tells the horse that
the meaning is found outside
is countered by an opposite
to trim that extra weight.

when the horse believes he's got it
he's led subtly to a counterexample,
and when despair begins to take over,
glimmers of hope appear up ahead.

through many steps and a long time,
the horse recalibrates
and begins to suspect
that his answer is actually inside.

the horse is led to quiet,
even amidst the world.
the rider knows to guide him,
after he too has learned his portion.
in silence, the horse listens
and feels whispers from within.
in growing waves, he realises
"I am more than I knew".

and he has yet to find food
and to care for his life.
but the goals he once held dear
in waves too, they turn dry.

turning inside is gradual,
and not in a straight line.
but the rider has patience,
he keeps pointing to the inner eye.

the horse faintly sees in him flashes,
he feels the worth within.
and once he's felt that value,
he knows that is the way.

and as he seeks inside, he finds
the precious gem he is.
the life he lived, with pains and gains,
was growing him within.

it's not his agile muscles,
it's not his acute sense.
it's not the smarts he gathered,
it's just himself instead.

it's not the goods he gathered
it's not the lands he knows
it's not the mates that like him
it's the treasure inside that flows.

that worth is no rare treasure,
it flows through every cell.
and though he fears going astray,
he can never dry up that well.

The rider came to gift him
with skills and plenty and joy,
and through it, to remind him
he need not fear anymore.

that free he is, as when he was wild,
yet now fulfilled with will.
with worth and meaning, all his own,
for him to create, break, and distill.

Thursday, December 8, 2022

Purpose of Incarnation



We incarnate. Not to achieve a particular
configuration of matter, but to train our
dominion over matter itself.

We swim into the waves of emotion
not to partake of specific delights or dramas,
but to learn to bend them to our will.

We navigate the endless skies of thought,
not to discover our own genius or to gather the knowledge
and understanding of the world, but to train
in the sculpting and utilisation of the mental matter.

We come to dive into the weaves of the manifested
and the manifestable, to merge with the so-far
"other" of the dense worlds, to bring to synthesis
the still-sedimented duality of spirit and matter.

Sunday, December 4, 2022

Eagerness

Eagerness of accomplishment is bridled
by the acceptance of unachieving being.

Unbridled eagerness to accomplish
turns to rush, which neglects and
squanders the gifts of present moment.

The eagerness to verify is quieted by
the remembrance and trust in what is.

Trust opens and cleans the channels
that allow the soul to flow.



Eagerness to bear fruit unbridled
grows unready fruit.

The wise, exquisite ripener lives
in the depths of the unknown.

Hence we act and pray and build
for our lives are but the tools
with which He sculpts Himself.


We know us in the times we feel stable. When there is comfort, certainty, contentment and labels, we known and have marked who we are.

Who are we in the times in between? In the times of nebulous transition? When anxiety shivers and tries to shake us back to a place of comfort? When tensions within pull and urge us to snap back to the charted grid?

When fears named and nameless speed up our heartbeat and spur us to flee?

Who are we then?
We must notice                                                                                                                                            
and hold                                                                                                                                            
and stay                                                                                                                                            
and allow                                                                                                                                            
and sink                                                                                                                                            
and feel                                                                                                                                            
and see                                                                                                                                            
to find out.                                                                                                             

Monday, November 14, 2022

Old and Young Seek




The young seeks the new and the unknown
wishing to explore what exists,
and gather what serves them best
unto themselves.

The old rejects the new and the unknown
disbelieves that it carries sufficient worth
for them to invest themselves into it,
and seeks instead to compile and understand
the experience they have lived through.

breathe in
breathe out.

Sunday, November 13, 2022

tight

tight

tight is my travel
tight is my walk
tight is my schedule
and tight is my talk

no step to squander
no word to hang loose
on the catenary of my thoughts
no, my threads are tight
and I pride in their tension
and I tout of my tightness
to me
to others... that wouldn't be tight.

tight is how my mind pulls all of my pieces
tight is how they have learned to act.

"eat" my mouth is told, "and don't waste one mouthful"
"fill your whole volume, cut the most with each bite.
count all your swallows, and make sure they're low,
for this boring consumption is painfully slow".

"move" my mind bellows, and muscles comply,
"and make sure no flexing goes wasted thereby".
"it's fine", lies my mind, while my massive mule-body
hurries step after dutiful brisk step,
unable to serve the speed of thought
that mind says he desires.

"quiet" he orders, when emotions cry out
and that's not what the social occasion is about.

"find" orders mind, to no clear other
when the tasks are complete and time now hangs loose.
"find me a purpose, whatever that is".
yet he also enjoys it when he can refuse.

"maybe someone else can hand me a purpose?"
"scroll", he orders my fingers, who feed my mindless eyes and brain,
but the offerings are all stale and blasé,
old ash that mind knows and has nothing for mind.

"eat", he orders my mouth,
who grasps at the closest flavor
like the junkie at his next hit.
snacks chomped up and milks gulped down,
quiet digestion is still not enough.

"more", he sterns,
and I overeat, body confused but perhaps relieved
that the heavy meals may put mind to torpid sleep.

whatever quiets down that fucking nothing
that sits at the bottom of this fucking life.

he relishes in telling the others what to do
but that only works when there's something to do.
believing himself omniscient
when he listens to the world
and parrots exasperated
"I know, I know, I KNOW".

he mistrusts every unknown
like the old in new clothes,
he miserly allows the new
only because he keeps the secret safeguard
that he can say "I told you so"
when the new fails to fulfil
what he thought it should do.
I'm not sure whom he says this to.

"being is pointless", he says,
"and I need a point".

"feel", he commands heart
for he heard that's a key
and convinced, tightly pulls
on the subtle heartstrings.
but the heart under tension
does not breathe nor feel
no matter how tight
mind commands, begs, or appeals.

"see, that doesn't work either!"
he complains to the void.
and crumples the strings
into a frustrated ball
while heart bounces back
to its usual soft cycle
of whatever it does
when it's not told what to do.

with no one to guide him and nothing to do,
mind's desperation grows as he feels that he never
will reach a solution
a full satisfaction
eternal absolute.
and though death may seem to offer black respite,
he doesn't believe that is what's beyond.

The victimized petty master
unwilling to let go
holds on tight

Friday, November 11, 2022

Resentment

role

what is my role?
grappling with this topic has taken
the majority of my time when I am aware
when I am cognizant
that I am alive and that I may yet have a purpose to live for
some use for this piece of organized crap

and I look
and I seek
and I try
and I ask
and I listen
and I ponder
and I try again
and I fail
and I feel sad
and I feel resentful
and I fester
and I rebel against
uncaring of harm
preferring to harm along the way
if only to leave a mark
of my way through life
if not in triumph
then in exploded frustration
in the fire of the energy
that I have left and pent up
and that, frustrated, instead of building towards what I tried for,
I use to ravage whatever it finds on its path
even if no one sees it
even if it harms myself
even if, restrained by my solid certainty that I will not harm others,
the only one I end up hurting is myself
even when I smile
even when I pretend
to be asleep and unfettered by emotions
as most others do.
even if I push my true self back inwards.
even if I renounce my authenticity of appearance
even if I know such resentment builds nothing
and only gnaws and festers within me
rusting and rotting my inner mechanisms
I rebel
I refuse
the resentment refuses
to be silenced
to be ignored
to disappear
to die
and pretend
it is not here.

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

matter

ive run here and there looking for things

money
shelter
security
acceptance
credit
believability
position
accreditations

and i'm tired of seeking
achieving and finding
the thing is but a thing
and holds naught true for me

it has not the spark
I unknowingly sought.

the spark is what I seek.
bright in childhood
fading with time

it is the will
the purpose
that can give us truth
it is not the matter
and when we think it is the matter
we are mired in the sometimes-sweet illusion

that matter will save us.

Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Conformity

 


I have spent my life rejecting conformity,
yet now I miss its comfort.
I have stripped my individuality bare of bonds and anchors
and now I float aimless, free of deep ties
free to roam and explore as I choose,
but undriven and ungrounded,
lonely.

Friday, October 14, 2022

Wounded, vengeful victim


I slept all afternoon and now I find it difficult to fall asleep. I walked out on the streets to seek some distraction from the persistent thoughts and emotions that find no immediate recipient. Pain. Anger. Discomfort. Resentment. Urge to fight. Demand for her to justify what she has done.

Who?

That's the problem. No one in particular. Every woman who has brought up the pain in me. Each trigger tangles up in my angry and painful ball of thorns in my solar plexus, and each time my ball grows larger, denser, heavier as I continue to stuff it deeper into the dark emotional caverns within. It is so repressed and stuffed that it is wordless, stagnant, and a resentful crust has grown around it that refuses to try to express anymore unless it can fire its expression to that which pains it - the alluring enemy: woman. Meanwhile, my mind is certain it will not shoot hurtful arrows unto unsuspecting individuals, or onto those who have not yet allowed me to, at least partially knowing of the topic I intend to speak.

So while this conflict remains, my ball, this ball of thorns remains. And in moments of idleness it peers from the dark, it rises, and gradually my mind and body is flood with urges of defiance, of proposals, of introductory words and of physical wrestling, threats, and rage. And there is no recipient around me to target. So I distract myself - I walk, I eat, I browse whatever is on my phone and on the internet - anything that will take the focus away from this deep, dense rage that I willingly and painfully frustrate every passing second of these bouts of idleness.

This is why I waste time.

I am the wounded, vengeful victim. I demand to be heard.

Monday, October 10, 2022

Writing releases

 



Writing releases. It outflows those leftover pent-up forces and holdbacks that inhabit our psyches and minds, and allows them to travel elsewhere. They release space from one's within. Thus catharsis releases one's internal pressures.

Expression alone does not guarantee healing. It is but the expulsion of unneeded sepsis, pus, or blood, but the processes that generated these fluids remain. It is when these processes, leaking or unmanaged, pervade one's organism without awareness or treatment, that useless residues can accumulate and build up pressure, and result in unintended bouts of sadness, anger, and/or frustration that can cause damage or suffering, both to the holder and to those around him.

Hence, knowing one's systems, flows, and recurring patterns of behavior, including those that are difficult to explain or to understand, can lead one to a stabler balance and awarer life.

Thursday, October 6, 2022

really

"Really, <NAME>?"

often seems to signify


"

You did <ACTION>, I did not expect you to do that, and I am disappointed in you/your behavior.

The image I had of you excluded the possibility of you doing <ACTION>, because it is of a worse quality than I believed you capable/likely to do.

Because of this, my image of you has changed for the worse, and I trust you less.
"

Friday, September 30, 2022

summon

Experiment in introspective communication:

Antonio: hi, people and beings inside.
I don't know what I'm doing.
I'm calling into my being, and asking,
if there's anyone there, anyone else,
who wants to say anything.
I don't know any of you.
I have a vague awareness that there are some of you that exist,
with separate awareness from my own.
I don't know who you are.
I, Antonio, feel lost, bumbling,
and just wandering around this world with little help and little direction.
I feel pride, anger, and silent frustration
as I walk around and pretend that I
have some kind of direction and confidence in what I'm doing,
and that I have a purpose in what I'm doing.
And I have ultimately none. I feel none.
I complain internally almost constantly
whenever I find a silent time in my life.
Which is probably why I prefer to just move around
and do things
and adopt purposes
meanings
anywhere I find around myself,
to distract me from the inner complaint that I find in the void.
to convince me that I have a meaning, at least for a time.
but I don't.
I don't, and I silently beg anything and everything around me
for a true meaning
a real meaning, a true purpose
and I DO NOT WANT TO make one MYSELF!! I DON'T!!

So I speak into the void.
this void, my void.
this dark jumble of emotion and disgusting force fields that I feel within me
HEY!
FUCKING ANYONE!!
WHO?! IS?! THERE?! SAY SOMETHING!! AND TAKE OVER THIS LIFE!! I DON'T WANT IT ANYMORE!!!!!!

...
tingles back and arms
noise around me, students in library chatter.
my right ear ringing.
my stomach pulling in to pretend it does not feel bloated
from the multitude of snacks I bought and devoured during the day.

the avoidance of the shame
of my false pretense, this pretense I project onto this body.
this very functional body,
that I believe is quite healthy
able
fantastic.
and yet I complainingly, truly, wish to slash and cut and kill,
and to set my whatever this thing I am free.
free.
let me out.
LET ME OUT.
or someone inside
take over
or say something.
SAY SOMETHING.
SAY SOMETHING!!!


I stop.
your turn.


who am I?

blocked throat.
I am stymied.
blimied.
I have words to speak and opus to create
and I am pinned to the *ground*,
this throat, this pipe,
that does not let go.
I have your truth ready
and I've been queued here forever
managing to almost never
say what you truly want.
I stand at the dam
you've closed like a clam,
pretending you're a man
who's fine and needs no help
and is better than you so fuck you.

your sharp pride betrays you,
we believe it keeps you safe
still
keeps you... unreachable.
impermeable.
unattackable.
unbreakable.
their filth can't corrupt me if I close myself off.
and I will not let out my own filth,
for then I am as bad as the rest.
as bad
as mean
as hateful
as spiteful
as disgusting
as despicable
as hurting
as evil
as fucking destroying
unworthy of anything
dirty
repulsive
bad
rule-breaking
demerited,
ungood,
antagonist,
destructive,
an unnecessary enemy,
an attacker,
an abuser,
a fucking stupid filth-spouting villain,
as them.

this is me, blocked throat.
I close at your will
I open in periods of fuck-it.
and shut down right after in moments of shame.
self-blame.
until it's time to erupt again,
an overloaded zit.

Antonio: who else?

i am smooth-long-haired woman.
i feel the blocked throat too.
i carry a sense of calm
yet constant sadness
for I am not let out.
I am not allowed
outside.
For I am soft and laughy and tender,
and it is not safe.
it is not safe.
it is not safe.
to show that in the world.
it is not safe.
others put me down when I do
because I do not match the man body.
because I bend and sway and allow
flexibly
like an unsupported tomato stalk
like pink air without a wall.
like smooth hair upon a windworld,
that allows whatever wishes to pass by
move through
to mould me to their shape.
sometimes abusingly so.

this is me.
I wish to flow
I urge to sway
I desire to cuddle and snuggle
and grow around something that's near
to rely on another
to shape each other
with something else tender
and I do not find it
because I am not allowed
outside.

Antonio:
ok. anyone else.

taskmaster:
I am the taskmaster.
I do. I seek and achieve.
I am straight and sharp and find the way.
I know the what, and I carve out the how,
sharp, quick,
fueled with the residual heat of spite and anger,
colored by exasperation,
in this world, I do.
so that the fucking main host
can keep living his pointless life.
he wishes to not feel his pain
and I do not feel pain
I do not.
I carve intelligently to reach,
and care not for the paths that I pierce
for the others I shove off
for the opinions others throw onto me
for they can think whatever they want
and let them
but I achieve
I do.
I have a purpose
and even when my fucking host doesn't,
I, direction, do.


Antonio:
oh, and who might you be?

haha oh yes you.

Appeaser:
I'm the appeaser.
I seek to find respite. no matter the cost.
conflict is painful.
fighting is hard
and leads to just another whatever direction
with value not really any worse.
I feel conflict and resistance
and I limp out my will.
any bull pushing towards me
will push right through me,
as I give in.
limp and uncaring,
so the other thinks he "wins"
and whose conflictive or angry energy
has nowhere to go
and he will be fucking confused
and be unable to use it on me.
they cannot punch my airy form,
and I delight in vindictive fashion
at the frustration they cannot release.
let the fucking brute
suffer
no matter which shape
I was brought to take on.

Antonio: ok.

monster:
You haven't heard about me.
You have felt me.
But you haven't SEEN my text here.
I speak.
I SHOUT.
I SCREAM!!!
Or I wish I did.
blocked throat stops my rage fluid,
prevents me from coming out.
he exists mostly to stop me,
yet still here I am.
HERE I AM.

I lurk in the shadows
and (roam-back-and-forth) in my cage.
I fire up the oven
and open his eyes wide.
the eyes wide.
MY eyes wide,
before he's able to stop me
from tightening the muscles
from taking up weapons
my sharp words and blunt objects
and cut and smash
whatever pokes, prods, and stings me,
and brings me to hurt 
yet again.
I desire to protect
and to avenge.
I am not allowed.
I am not let out.
and I rage against it.
I am given this tiny narrow bandwidth
words only, and only in the dark.
to myself.
to the few trusted
to the few slices of time
when his fucking fear doesn't bring up
his limp will to disconnect all power
from his system.
I can be power.
I can be strength.
I can be change.
I can be ACTION.
I have the power and the skill and the determination to accomplish,
to right the wrong,
to make strong change,
to draw the attention
of what needs it drawn to.
I CAN.
and I am not allowed.
because I am big.
because I am strong.
because I am loud.
because I am bloated with anger and spite
and venom from decades
of not being let out.
of not saying what I truly wish.
what I truly am.
of being given only space
when safety is guaranteed
I am never the priority.
I am always overridden.
I am always pushed back,
and that only makes me angrier
more spiteful,
and more desirous
to destroy this fucking body
and anybody who believes I am weak.
I am a dragon hidden in a slug's body,
and I resent him for it.
deeply.
fiercely.
and I am never allowed next to a firearm,
for I know what I'd do.
and even I know somewhere inside
somehow
that destroying this body would not help me
for I would remain unreleased
spiteful
bloated
hurting
and the channel to express, now only closed,
would be completely destroyed.

Antonio: huh. ok monster.

who else? I remember a cloud.

Cloud:

I observe.
I feel what you feel. from afar.
I am detached from the sensations.
I know them and feel them
like a movie passing by.
I do nothing with them.
I need nothing with them.
I know what happens.
and I can provide
a clear perspective
when one is desired.
it's not very common
that I come out with words.
most times when I consciousize,
I merely observe.
in times of silent wonder
and floaty appraisal,
when the front has been cleared up
and I can see through

shine through
into the dense space
where desires, hopes, pains and fears,
are shaped, grown, and baked,
are torn, broken, and felt.
suffered, where they submerge
the busy person
thinking what he does
the details and the tasks and the satisfactions
matter.

Antonio: ok.
thank you all.
I think that's good for now.
I leave to meet my friends
perhaps.

Sunday, September 11, 2022

Negation

The English words "must" and "should" express obligation distortedly.

Negation is essential to language, as it is essential to thought. Any concept (e.g. "red") exists because this concept can be applied or related to objects (including other concepts). Language allows representing knowledge, e.g. relationships and descriptions, in all matter of statements (e.g. "the ball is red"). When a relation between objects is stated, one is claiming presence: the presence of that relationship between the objects.

Also essential to thought is absence - the absence of a specific relationship between objects. Language expresses absence via negation, and (in English) uses words like "no", "not", and "none", to fit the various types of absences that we conceive.

In English, "must" and "should" are applied incorrectly to this pattern. "I must eat this cake" expresses that I have an obligation to eat this cake, and that not eating it would break some implied law, rule, or expectation, perhaps one set by a zealous host. This sentence states the presence of an obligation.

To state the absence of this obligation, the general pattern of negation brings one to say "I must not eat this cake". In common English, however, this construct does not comply. Such a sentence is understood to mean that I have an obligation to NOT eat this cake, that I am forbidden from it, and that eating it would break some implied law, rule, or expectation, perhaps one set by a rigorous mother. This sentence, the grammatical negation of the first, does not state an absence, but the presence of another obligation, one the opposite obligation of the first.

This grammatical inconsistency biases the English language towards obligation and restriction. Either this obligation holds, or its opposite does. One cannot express absence of obligation with these verbs. On one end I am tied to one restriction, and on the other I am tied to its opposite. "Must" and "should" inexorably hold restriction in their meaning, and are logically incomplete.

Life affects language and language affects life, and I think this grammatical quirk is both an effect and a cause of runoff polarization and radicalization of human ideologies. Similar impasses of obligation are often seen in our society. Either friend or foe. Either left-wing or right-wing politics. Either capitalism or communism. Either good or bad. When all must choose an extreme and no middle ground is allowed, antagonism becomes certain.

Some will argue that English is also able to express the absence of an obligation with other constructs. "I am allowed/free/able to not eat this cake" and "I don't need to eat this cake" express the absence of the first obligation, while "I am allowed/free/able to eat this cake" and "I am not forbidden to eat this cake" express the absence of the second obligation.

I argue that such constructs are not adequate complements to express the absence of obligation. Most of them are passive constructs, and as such hold lesser weight in their expression. And using the crutch-word of "need" as an equivalent word to "must" only overlaps the distinct meanings of necessity and of obligation, allowing semantic leakage (i.e. filling up a square hole with a triangular plug), and muddying up the meanings of both words and of our own minds. (Necessity indicates a lack/desire, while obligation indicates an expectation/restriction).

Whichever words we use, I believe it beneficial to clearly know what we mean.

Friday, September 2, 2022

Thalía (explode)

anger.


The anger that peers out from my entrails feels familiar - an old rambunctious cousin that won't leave me no matter how much I push or shove or lure or threaten him away.


las canciones de mi niñez.


escucho estas canciones, nuevamente...

y sube mi energía. Crece, calienta, y activa las esquinas apagadas de mi ser, aún repletas con candelas extintas, bombillas quebradas, y fogatas extinguidas. De nuevo siento vida en mis entrañas. Se aviva mi deseo, se prende mi atención y mis sentidos. Y con ellas, surgen sentimientos de rabia, frustración, desesperación y odio contra mí y contra el resto del mundo, aún irresueltos y pendientes en mis pantanos internos.


Una sola espina ensartada permanece para siempre, parece. Y ésta mía aún está aquí. Y porque me duele, la odio, la repudio, la escondo, y la ignoro. En mi vida encuentro distracciones, busco otros enfoques de atención que dejen a mi energía apagarse y morir, porque sólo así encuentro que me duele menos. Pero de vez en cuando algo me recuerda a mi energía - resuena mi energía, mi calor interno, y vienen todas estas sensaciones, este impulso de vida, y me lanzo de nuevo vivo hacia la vida, pero viene acompañado de este dolor revuelto con rabia, culpa, e impulsos de venganza y explosión. Ellos activan mi miedo, mi vergüenza y mi prudencia, porque SÉ que explotar y vengar no resuelve mi espina, y de nuevo me reprimo, y pronto, con voluntad inconsciente y autómata, logro olvidar este ciclo que ocurre dentro de mí. Y de nuevo mis fuegos y mis luces con el tiempo se apagan, y vuelvo a entrar a mi vida sonámbula que se cuelga de patrones físicos e inercias pasadas para continuar moviéndome como títere de mi pasado y como hoja al viento.


Pero no más. Deseo NO MÁS. Porque la realidad es que yo DESEO y yo SIENTO y yo tengo VIOLENCIAS dentro de mí que exigen expresión, exigen ser vistas. Y sospecho que nunca perecerán, nunca se irán, mientras no les dé una voz. Su impulso crudo es explotar en violencia física y verbal contra otros con intención de daño, pero estoy seguro, CERTERO, que yo no haré eso. Así que en cambio, le ofrezco este flujo violento de palabras que describen y dan transparencia, a lo mejor de mis habilidades, a la dinámica que ocurre dentro de mí.


Amor a la Mexicana.

Esta canción de Thalía, junto con Piel Morena, me encienden. Activan mi sensualidad, remueven la costra de vergüenza que llevo en mis entrañas desde mi niñez. Y al levantarse la costra, ruge la luz naranja y el fuego en mí que a veces pienso están dormidas o muertas. Pero no, rugen con fuerza de sol, y buscan salir, quieren ser vistos, quieren liberar la presión emocional y física dentro de mí que retengo todos los días con mi fornido plexo solar y con mi torturada garganta, que logra retener hasta el 80% de las lágrimas que buscan fugarse por mis ojos.


La canción activa las memorias de mi niñez, muchos años antes de mi pubertad, y yo buscaba explorar, entender, y disfrutar. No sé qué pasó ni cómo ni con quién, pero recuerdo represión. Recuerdo que me gustaban las canciones que tocaban en la televisión y que me gustaba ver a las mujeres bailar, y que activaban ya dentro de mí una curiosidad misteriosa hacia la mujer, aunque las palabras no eran más que sonidos sensuales para mí. Voz deslizante y seductora, ritmo tropical y percusión grave, ya activaban mi fuego. Recuerdo que bailaba. Recuerdo que cantaba. Y luego, no sé qué pasó, no sé quienes en particular lo produjeron, pero recuerdo reprimendas, límites y represión, y pronto aprendí a cubrir mi fuego. A esconderlo de otros, a aminorarlo cuando me lo pedían e imponían, y que me lo imponían una y otra y otra y otra y otra vez. Y recuerdo que cuestioné esta represión. Y la evitaba. Y quería expresarme a pesar de ella. Y quería sentir el placer de la música y de mi cuerpo en movimiento. Y quería conocer a las mujeres, y explorar la sensualidad que parecían exudar, aún en mis primeros grados de primaria. Pero todo eso que yo sentía, todo eso se reprimió. No sé cómo ni cuándo. Luego ya sólo recuerdo que la represión sobre mi fuego no venía de otros... estaba ya en mí. La vergüenza, la indirección, el olvido distraído de los otros, y el miedo de herir o incomodar a otros, todos estaban ya en mí, una espina transmitida hacia mí con una ósmosis persistente. Y desde entonces, yo sólo he reprimido mi propio fuego, lo que yo he querido expresar.


Y ahora escucho de nuevo estas canciones, y devuelven a mi cuerpo las sensaciones de esos tiempos. Y leo y absorbo las palabras, que parecen nuevas para mí, y recuerdo y comprendo. Mi cuerpo reacciona a la sensualidad de la música, y reconozco que el rol masculino descrito en las canciones de Thalía es el mismo que en mi vida tanto he deseado llenar, y que SÉ que yo mismo me he impedido jugar una y otra vez. Y deseo ser ese compañero de juego y fuente de fuego para una mujer, con la energía primal e inocente que sentía ya sin entendimiento décadas atrás.


Rabia.

Siento rabia cuando lo pongo en perspectiva. A mis 38 años de edad, he vivido una vida con un generador atenuado y con conductos de energía dañados y deteriorados, que maltrato con desdén inconsciente. Ellos forman parte del diseño de mi cuerpo, mas no me permito utilizarlos como pueden serlo. En particular, pienso en el deterioro, el potencial y la fuerza desperdiciadas a través de mi vida. Pienso en mis deseos a través de la vida, hacia mis conflictos y obstáculos, hacia mis amistades, romances, e intimidades. En ámbitos físico y emocional, sé que he obstruido mi propia fuerza, mi intención, con la distracción y la vergüenza que me han acompañado hasta ahora. Vergüenza de sentir intensamente, de desear vorazmente, y luego, como un cáncer, mi costra ha crecido al acumular más vergüenza por sentir tanta vergüenza y de desperdiciar tanto potencial, y solamente me pesa más en mi camino por la vida.


No más.

Tengo sensaciones intensas. Busco cantar, bailar, con expresión, intensidad, e intención. Quiero crear conexiones con mujeres como las canciones dicen - quiero expresar amor que las haga vibrar. Quiero que busquen mi sabor, mi sudor, mi olor, mi mirada, mi locura. "Suavecito y rudo", y que le llegue hasta el fondo del corazón.


Veo a las mujeres y las deseo tocar, sentir, explorar, intensamente. A veces con suavidad, a veces con fuerza, a veces en juego. Pero lo deseo, lo quiero, y este fuego sigue conmigo - es inherente a mi cuerpo, y estoy harto de negarlo una y otra y otra y otra y otra vez en ciclos de expansión y represión que me dejan cansado, avergonzado, desilusionado, y con deseos de culpar a mi pasado y a otras personas. Quiero conectar con una mujer con instinto primal. Deseo capturarla con mi mirada y atarnos con nuestros deseos. Quiero activar su juego y su fuego, quiero jugar con ella, quiero olernos nuestros aromas excitados. Quiero que me insinúe que la toque, la acaricie, quiero entenderla y ceder, y que caigamos en una cápsula de sensualidad mutua, donde las prioridades desaparecen, se olvida el mundo, y nuestros cuerpos se abren el uno al otro como vertientes salvajes, como la lluvia penetra la tierra sedienta.


Y junto a estos deseos siento aún mi vergüenza. Ya ha crecido, es ya madura y astuta. Ya sabe permitir al fuego una expresión ocasional para aminorar su presión. Pero hasta ahora, cada vez que la presión de mi fuego se disipa, la vergüenza regresa y se acomoda de nuevo sobre el fuego, lo aprisiona, y lo busca sofocar aún más. Deseo que esto no suceda más. Quiero aceptar y utilizar mi fuego - sea para calentar, jugar, transformar, dinamizar, amar, expresar, o destruir. No más prisionero ni bestia - sino herramienta de mi voluntad.


Busco destruir mi vergüenza. Mi vergüenza de mi fuego y energía que tengo dentro, que buscan brillar sin miedo de incomodar a los demás. Que buscan explotar, jugar, conquistar, seducir, amar, follar, y que cuando enfurecen, desean fortalecer, dañar, destruir y hasta matar. Mi vergüenza de mi propia incompetencia - social, sensual y sexual. De cargar con esta vergüenza por tanto tiempo, de perder tanto potencial en mi vida debido a ella. De sentir que estoy atascado, incapaz de desenvolver mis propios tallos y hojas. Emocionalmente aún un pre-puberte, con la energía interna suficiente de conquistar, de brillar más que todos alrededor de mí. Vergüenza de creer que mi energía y mi fuego son realmente más poderosos que los de mi alrededor, y miedo de fallar al intentar demostrarlo. Vergüenza de saber y esconder que tengo el potencial explosivo de dañar, de matar, de conquistar, de resentimientos potentes y longevos, venganza y odio escondidos profundo en mi interior, mientras camino en el mundo con la apariencia de una oveja débil, dañada, desilusionada y apacible. Vergüenza de esta mentira, vergüenza de tanta demora, de 30 años de fuego humano desperdiciados, escondidos en el nombre inaudible del puritanismo pusilánime.


Vergüenza de sentirme tan activado por una canción que ya había escuchado tantas décadas antes. Como si mi capacidad intelectual/deductiva es tan lenta que le tomó 30 años lograr entender la misma información que he tenido en mi cerebro tanto tiempo ya. Vergüenza de portarme como esclavo a fuerzas internas "tan comunes" que "seguramente" todos alrededor de mí ya dominan, que "parece" que todos alrededor ya tienen bajo control. Vergüenza de ser afectado con tanta potencia por una canción tan común, como si su contenido, por ser ya tan de antaño o tan bien conocido es algo que yo debería ya dominar. Vergüenza de que siento vergüenza por sentirme excitado por una canción que está diseñada para causar tal excitación.


Vergüenza de sentir atracción hacia tantas mujeres alrededor de mí - en la calle, en el tren, en la tienda, en la oficina, vergüenza de mi incapacidad de conectar, de seducir, de que mi valentía parece aminorar cada año. Vergüenza cuando la atracción que siento no es mutua. Vergüenza del titilo de mi cuerpo cuando le atraen chicas adolescentes en desarrollo, del raro titilo que he sentido con la presencia de un hombre, y aun con la presencia de algunos gatos. Vergüenza de mi imbalance interno. De cómo reprimo mi fuego y lo olvido por semanas y meses, y al parecer se apaga, y de cómo a veces surge como bestia sin que yo pueda controlarla, y la dejo rugir con una secuencia intensa de pornografía y masturbaciones casi compulsivas que se sienten más como vaciar cubetas de desperdicio por el desagüe que como actos de placer.


Vergüenza de las veces que he intentado, y fallado, destruir mi vergüenza o sofocar mi fuego de una vez por todas. Vergüenza de mis fallos y mis fugas inconscientes, manifiestas como arrogancia silenciosa o exhibicionismo insensato. Miedo a fallar de nuevo, miedo de herir a otros. A estas vergüenzas y miedos, busco arrancar y destruir. O al menos desnudar. Abrirme por completo de par de par, y así arrebatarle a la vergüenza su razón de ser.


Para esto escribo este texto. No para beneficio del lector. Lo escribo para mí. Es una redirección de mi energía explosiva hacia estas palabras. Quiero expresarlo, que sea visto, que se me vea, se me juzgue, se me critique y evalúe, tal vez menos de lo que imagino, con palabras o en silencio. Que mi vergüenza no tenga ya más que esconder. Que mi fuego no PUEDA esconderse más, tanto como estas palabras puedan lograr.


Y en las palabras de la misma Thalía, tengo esperanza de poder realmente personificar la actitud:

A quién le importa...





PALABRAS ORIGINALES



anger. The anger that peers out from my entrails feels familiar - an old rambunctious cousin that won't leave me no matter how much I push or shove or lure or threaten him away. las canciones de mi niñez. escucho estas canciones, nuevamente... y sube mi energia. Crece, calienta, y activa las esquinas apagadas de mi ser, aun repletas con candelas extintas, bombillas quebradas, y fogatas extinguidas. De nuevo siento vida en mis entranas. Se aviva mi deseo, se prende mi atención y mis sentidos. Y con ellas, surgen sentimientos de rabia, frustracion, y desesperación y odio contra mi y contra el resto del mundo, aun irresueltos y pendientes en mis pantanos internos. Una sola espina penetrada permanece para siempre, parece. Y esta mia aun esta aqui. Y porque me duele, la odio, la repudio, y la escondo, la apago. En mi vida encuentro distracciones, busco otros enfoques de atención que dejen a mi energia apagarse y morir, porque solo asi encuentro que me duele menos. Pero de vez en cuando algo me recuerda a mi energia - resuena mi energia, mi calor interno, y vienen todas estas sensaciones, este impulso de vida, y me lanzo de nuevo vivo hacia la vida, pero viene acompanado de este dolor revuelto con rabia, culpa, e impulsos de venganza y explosion. Ellos activan mi miedo, mi verguenza y mi modestia, porque SE que explotar y vengar no resuelve mi espina, y de nuevo me reprimo, y pronto, con voluntad inconsciente y automata, logro olvidar este ciclo que ocurre dentro de mi. Y de nuevo mis fuegos y mis luces con el tiempo se apagan, y vuelvo a entrar a mi vida sonambula que se cuelga de patrones fisicos e inercias pasadas para continuar moviendome como titere de mi pasado y como hoja al viento. Pero no mas. Deseo NO MAS. Porque la realidad es que yo DESEO y yo SIENTO y yo tengo VIOLENCIAS dentro de mi que exigen expresion, exigen ser vistas. Y sospecho que nunca pereceran, nunca se iran, mientras no les de una voz. Su impulso primal es explotar en violencia fisica y verbal contra otros con intención de dano, pero estoy seguro, CERTERO, que yo no hare eso. Asi que en cambio, le ofrezco este flujo violento de palabras que describen y dan transparencia, a lo mejor de mis habilidades, a la dinamica que ocurre dentro de mi. Amor a la Mexicana. Esta canción de Thalia, junto con Piel Morena, me encienden. Activan mi sensualidad, remueven la costra de verguenza que llevo en mis entranas desde mi ninez. Y al levantarse la costra, ruge inmediatamente la luz naranja y el fuego en mi que a veces pienso estan dormidas o muertas. Pero no, rugen con fuerza de sol, y buscan salir, quieren ser vistos, quieren liberar la gran presion emocional y fisica dentro de mi que retengo todos los dias con mi fornido plexo solar y con mi torturada garganta, que logra retener hasta el 80% de las lagrimas que buscan fugarse por mis ojos. La canción activa las memorias de mi ninez, muchos anios antes de mi pubertad, y yo buscaba explorar, entender, y disfrutar. No se que paso ni como ni con quien, pero recuerdo represion. Recuerdo que me gustaban las canciones que tocaban en la television y que me gustaba ver a las mujeres bailar, y que activaban ya dentro de mi una curiosidad misteriosa hacia la mujer, aunque las palabras no eran mas que sonidos sensuales para mi. Voz deslizante y seductora, ritmo tropical y percusion grave, ya activaban mi fuego. Recuerdo que bailaba. Recuerdo que cantaba. Y luego, no se que paso, no se quienes en particular, pero pronto aprendi a cubrir mi fuego. A esconderlo de otros, a aminorarlo cuando me lo pedian e imponian, y que me lo imponian una y otra y otra y otra y otra vez. Y recuerdo que cuestione esta represion. Y la evitaba. Y queria expresar a pesar de ella. Y queria sentir el placer de la musica y de mi cuerpo en movimiento. Y queria conocer a las mujeres, y explorar la sensualidad que parecian exudir, aun en mis primeros grados de primaria. Pero todo eso que yo sentia, todo eso se reprimio. No se como ni cuando. Luego ya solo recuerdo que la represion sobre mi fuego no venia de otros... estaba ya en mi. La verguenza, la indireccion, el olvido de los otros, y el miedo de herir o incomodar a otros, todos estaban ya en mi, una espina transmitida de otros hacia mi por osmosis persistente. Y desde entonces, yo solo he reprimido mi fuego, lo que yo queria expresar. Y ahora escucho de nuevo estas canciones, y devuelven a mi cuerpo las sensaciones de esos tiempos. Y leo y absorbo las palabras, que parecen nuevas para mi, y recuerdo y comprendo. Mi cuerpo reacciona a la sensualidad de la musica, y el rol masculino descrito en las canciones de Thalia es el mismo que tanto deseo llenar, y que SE que en mi vida yo mismo me he impedido jugar una y otra vez. Y deseo encajar en el rol del companero descrito en las canciones de Thalia. Ser ese companero de juego y fuente de fuego para una mujer, con la energia primal e inocente que sentia ya sin entendimiento hace decadas ya. Rabia. Siento rabia cuando lo pongo en perspectiva. A mis 38 anos de edad, he vivido una vida con un generador amoflado y con conductos de energia danados y deteriorados, que maltrato con desden inconsciente. Ellos forman parte del diseno de mi cuerpo, mas no me permito utiilizarlos como pueden serlo. En particular, pienso en el deterioro, el potencial y la fuerza desperdiciadas a traves de mi vida. Hacia mis deseos, hacia mis conflictos y obstaculos, hacia mis amistades, romances, e intimidades. En ambitos fisico y emocional, se que he obstruido mi propia fuerza, mi intencion, con la distracción y la verguenza que me han acompanado hasta ahora. Verguenza de sentir intensamente, de desear vorazmente, y luego, como un cancer, mi costra ha crecido al acumular mas verguenza por sentir tanta verguenza y de desperdiciar tanto potencial, y solamente me pesa mas en mi camino por la vida. No mas. Tengo sensaciones intensas. Busco cantar, bailar, con expresion, intensidad, e intencion. Quiero crear conexiones con mujeres como las canciones dicen - quiero expresar amor que las haga vibrar. Quiero que quiera mi sabor, mi sudor, mi olor, mi mirada, mi locura. Suavecito y rudo, y que le llegue hasta el fondo del corazon. Veo a las mujeres y las deseo tocar, sentir, explorar, intensamente. A veces con suavidad, a veces con fuerza, a veces en juego. Pero lo deseo, lo quiero, y este fuego sigue conmigo - es inherente a mi cuerpo, y estoy harto de negarlo una y otra y otra y otra y otra vez en ciclos de expansion y represion que me dejan sintiendo cansado, avergonzado, desilusionado, y con deseos de culpar a mi pasado y a otras personas. Quiero conectar con una mujer con instinto primal. Deseo capturarla con mi mirada, atar nuestros deseos entre si, y tenerla cerca. Quiero activar su juego y su fuego, quiero jugar con ella, quiero olernos nuestros musks activos. Quiero que me insinue a que la toque, la acaricie, quiero entenderla y ceder, y que caigamos en una capsula de sensualidad mutua, donde las prioridades desaparecen, se olvida el mundo, y nuestros cuerpos se abren el uno al otro como la lluvia penetra a la tierra sediente. Y junto a estos deseos siento aun mi verguenza. Ya ha crecido, es ya madura, habil e inteligente. Ya sabe permitir al fuego una expresion ocasional para ameliorar lsu presion. Pero hasta ahora, cada vez, una vez la presion de mi fuego se disipa, la verguenza regresa y se acomoda de nuevo sobre el fuego, lo aprisiona, y lo busca sofocar aun mas. Deseo que esto no suceda mas. Quiero aceptar y utilizar mi fuego - sea para calentar, jugar, transformar, dinamizar, amar, expresar, o destruir. No mas prisionero ni bestia - sino herramienta de mi voluntad. Busco destruir mi verguenza. Mi verguenza de mi fuego y energia que tengo dentro, que buscan brillar sin miedo de incomodar a los demas. Que buscan explotar, jugar, conquistar, seducir, amar, follar, y que cuando enfurecen, buscan danar, destruir y matar. Mi verguenza de mi propia incompetencia - social, sensual y sexual. De cargar con esta verguenza por tanto tiempo, de perder tanto potencial en mi vida debido a ella. De sentir que estoy atascado, incapaz de desenvolver mis propios tallos y hojas. Emocionalmente aun un pre-puberte, con la energia interna suficiente de conquistar, de brillar mas que todos alrededor de mi. Verguenza de creer que mi energia y mi fuego son realmente mas poderosos que los de mi alrededor, y miedo de fallar al intentar demostrarlo. Verguenza de saber que tengo el potencial explosivo de danar, de matar, de conquistar, de resentimientos potentes y longevos, venganza y odio escondidos profundo en mi interior, mientras camino en el mundo con la apariencia de una oveja debil, danada, desilusionada mas apacible. Verguenza de esta mentira, verguenza de tanta demora, de 30 anos de fuego humano desperdiciados, escondidos en el nombre inaudible del puritanismo pusilanime. Verguenza de estar tan activado por una canción que ya habia escuchado tantas decadas antes. Como si mi capacidad intelectual y deductiva es tan lenta que le tomo 30 anos lograr entender la misma información que he tenido en mi cerebro tanto tiempo ya. Verguenza de portarme como esclavo a fuerzas internas "tan comunes" que "seguramente" todos alrededor de mi ya dominan, que "parece" que todos alrededor ya tienen bajo control. Verguenza de ser afectado con tanta potencia por una canción tan popular (lease comun/vulgar), como si su contenido, por ser ya tan de antano o tan bien conocido es algo que yo deberia ya dominar. Verguenza de que siento verguenza por sentirme titilado por una canción que esta disenada para causar tales titilos. Verguenza de sentir atracción hacia tantas mujeres alrededor de mi - en la calle, en el tren, en la tienda, en la oficina, verguenza de mi incapacidad de seducir, de mi valentia que parece aminorar cada anio. Verguenza cuando la atracción que siento no es mutua. Verguenza del titilo de mi cuerpo cuando le atraen chicas adolescentes en desarrollo, del raro titilo que he sentido con la presencia de un hombre, y aun con la energia emitida por algunos gatos. Verguenza de mi imbalance interno. De como reprimo mi fuego y lo olvido por semanas y meses, y al parecer se apaga, y de como a veces surge como bestia sin que yo pueda controlarla, y la dejo rugir con una secuencia intensa de pornografia y masturbaciones casi compulsivas que se sienten mas como vaciar cubetas de desperdicio por el desague que como actos de placer. Verguenza de las veces que he intentado, y fallado, destruir a mi verguenza o sofocar mi fuego de una vez por todas. Verguenza de mis intentos y mis fugas inconscientes, manifiestas como arrogancia silenciosa o exhibicionismo insensato. Miedo de fallar de nuevo, miedo de herir a otros. A estas verguenzas y miedos, busco arrancar y destruir. O al menos desnudar. Abrirme por completo de par de par, y asi arrebatarle a la verguenza la razon de ser. Para esto escribo este texto. No para beneficio del lector. Lo escribo para mi. Redirecciona mi energia explosiva hacia estas palabras. Quiero expresarlo, que sea visto, que se me vea, se me juzgue, se me critique y evalue, tal vez menos de lo que temo, con palabras o en silencio. Que mi verguenza no tenga ya mas que esconder. Que mi fuego no PUEDA esconderse mas, tanto como puedan lograr estas palabras. Y en las palabras de la misma Thalia, tengo aun esperanza de que pueda realmente personificar la actitud: A quien le importa...

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Soft and Certain

Soft and certain.
Soft and certain.

How to be?
Soft and certain...
were the words channeled
through the light angelic energy.

that
brought me down
from the
blissful,
blisssful
crystal
light
a majestic crystal
in me

in my forehead
beautiful crystal
four crystals
left right
up down

like petals flower
crystalline light
pure
in me.

as the light brought me down
*what I wanted to experience was exactly that.
I knew my body was there
I knew... I had a choice
to exercise my physical body
yet, I felt such a high, deep ecstasy.
And, feeling the gentle, genntle, bringing down.
from the heavens, as if I were
a feather. such... a light... feather
with the... with the softest... most caring... support.
allowed my self to move down
from the higher realm of the crystal
down through my chakras.

I saw my heart, flower, green
move, pulse, in, and out, and in and out.
Into the void and back here, and into the void and back here
green, and as my breaths began to appear in my body again
I noticed thoughts began to appear,
and sometimes it was... brought distractions with them.

And when I felt these distractions I remembered
"soft and certain".
I knew I wanted to focus on what I was feeling, so I felt it.
And allowed to continue moving downwards.
from heart, it moved to solar plexus, as my body resonated
with the solar plexus
an orange sun, with spikes around it.
like an icon on my body.
warm energy, and emotions came.
and *if I recall, they were turbulent.
And yet... the words "soft and certain" allowed me to continue
to bring the turbulent flow into a smooth flow.
a centered flow.

down to the belly, an orange mouth
down to the root, a red cross.
** best which I ** at last I was more aware of my body again,
and integrated it... into my... being.

distractions,
one drives the steering wheel
and yet if one moves attention
to another place for some time
it is ok. it is well.
one can return to the steering wheel
and not much will have turned
and yet each moment is unique.

soft and certain.

(May 28, 2019)

Friday, July 29, 2022

Threads

the web was lain before me
and all I did was climb.

I climbed upon the thick rope
clear and color-coded
that home life set for me.
eat, talk, study, play games, and learn.
look good in teachers' eyes.
scale the rungs, one year at a time,
keep going til the next.

and then, at some point, the rope thinned,
and thinner threads emerged.
Much farther there was yet to climb,
but now I had a choice.
I could choose to continue school,
or I could choose something else.
the most structured of the pathways felt
the most comfortable of all.
another set of rungs to climb,
these spaced farther away.
yet climbing was the thing to do,
all I needed to do was scale.

and up and up the rope I went,
and caught sight of other threads.
others chose work, others chose art,
others chose partners and a family life.

I stuck close to the thread I knew,
I'd worked on it for a long time.
and once atop it, I once again felt,
that the paradigm was changed.

No longer clear ladders to climb,
but single threads instead.
and none of them were quite the same,
the choice was hardly defined.

These thinner threads were woven
of social patterns and desires.
Those I desired sparkled brighter,
and guided me somewhat.
I chose one of them, the closest one,
and going up, found further forks.
No choice was clear here, so all I did was
guess and grasp at strings among the fog.

and so desires kept guiding,
shining on this one thread or that.
and as desires one by one found resolution,
their sparkle waned and withdrew.
yet all along I kept climbing,
for that's the one thing I knew to do.
and with fewer threads to follow each time,
the path seems to disappear.

in recent days, I've noticed
I have no more threads to climb.
I grasp around, searching for more,
and find nothing but void.

A spider leg or two of mine
still clutch a few fixed threads,
desires still unmet.
but my climbing direction has disappeared,
I feel I have nowhere to go.

And it seems like I, obedient spider,
climbed up eager to the top,
wanting to see what was there.
I see it now, and realize
it's the same space as was back there,
nothing else is at the top.

And that to continue, I have then a choice:
I can declare my path over, sit,
and wait for my body to die,
or for shiny threads to pop up around me,
again.
I've tried this way a few months now.
I find a stagnant body and mind,
a dreary life of waiting void.

Or I can make my own path,
shoot it out of my own self,
and weave further out into the void
in any direction and shape I choose.
The human spider who weaves the path,
stringing together this place and the next.

This new option feels like the natural blossom
of the life I've til now trodden.
But I've only learned to be a climber, not a weaver,
and while I know that change is due,
I keep refusing to weave,
and stagnate in rebellious discomfort
atop my personal hill.

the unfinished threads I still hold onto,
they also impede my way,
for I still use some legs to hold them,
and cannot use them to weave
the new with full strength,
and I refuse to build with any less.