i need (a little)

i need a little space today

to let go of my face today

and let it rest

and run the risk

of not running the race today

it's tired from the endless years

protecting others from their tears

projecting all their endless fears

upon its all-accepting space

to lose its brittle

bogus gape

and find its supple

Sacred shape

it needs a little grace today

a safe and warm embrace today

i need a little time today

to let go of my mind today

the forces skewed

that force it to

express itself in rhyme today

it's dizzy from the endless surge

of truth and falsehoods misconverged

which swiftly, ruthlessly submerge

the clarity it longs to find

to lose the blues

of formless ooze

and find the mindful

strength to choose

it needs a deep compline today

a solitude sublime today

i need a little peace today

to let go and release today

for stress and strain

and pressured pain

to desist and decrease today

depleted from songs too often sung

my soul's a sponge that's over-wrung

and shriveled like a wounded lung

a deflated fool's golden fleece

to lose the burden

of stifling shame

and find for certain

its own true name

it needs some space to cease today

a Spiritual caprice today

in suffocating days

of endless daze

where Air supply

is rarefied

it's okay to give

your Self a chance

to stop the world

step out of the Dance

to pause the Play

and receive the day

to Breathe and Be

and believe again

to see the Light

and perceive again

an endless Love

to conceive again

to forgive your Self

and live again

and discover the Self

you can give again

to another dear Self

who like your Self

is needing space

and time and Grace

release and Peace

(just a little)

to allow the Wind

to blow anew

and through the weathered

withered Soul

into the shrunken

shriveled lungs

and whittle away

the calcified crust

around the winded

wounded Heart

empowering it

to beat and thump

and pump again

enabling limbs

to move and groove

and bump again

to feel the sacred Rhythm

rejoin the Divine Dance

and reverberate its inimitable

articulate verse

into the Realm

of Revelation

the powerful Passionate Play

of Life again.

Amen.

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