Dark
Dark chances,
unhealthy and unsafe trauma
HiStories
Degenerating predative dogmas
not wanting to let go of ballistics
even for dawning light's sacred peace promise
to grab full-immersion hold
and heal dark mythologies
lose now and again later ecologies
repeat rehearsed
inside-only voiced economies
exploiting dark passion narratives
Speaking out alarmed Betrayal
from those you were taught to Trust--
[it was Her job!
I have an unconditional contract
on a warm wet naturally wombed
and spiritually unwounded
birthright!]
Defying Other's Anger
about my gift-economy Hypocrisy
about my sacred Golden Rule restriction
win/win positive aspiration,
invoked by nature's spiritual
Hippocratic Oath
to at least do no damage
losing trusted breath in
so losing full breath capacity back out
again
and again
and repeat breathlessly fading again.
My own most difficult,
occasionally traumatic,
distressingly long, slow
letting go transition
Feels almost inevitably headed
for natural health-Lose
spiritual wealth-Lose
despair
Unless we all keep trying our best,
not just me
cleaning up your mess
to suffering servant impress
All us AnthroPrivileged victims
aware of traumatic over-populated
rabid pandemic health risks,
and runaway
emerging PTSD
and dementia
and suicide
and matricide
and ecocide
Make it almost impossible
to respect ourselves
yet not fear
retributive justice officers
and judges
and monolithic Yang-Jehovah
Dispensing punishments and fines
and shame
and blame
where the only obvious victim
I can see
is me.
My dark protagonist continues
to be victimized,
even now in aging memories
Every day past light
leads, at dusk,
to dark future
leads, at dawn,
to soon past insufficient light...
Yet my attachment to enlightenment
encourages me to disregard
co-arising dipolar dark disempowering entanglements
bicamerally re-associated
Yet awkwardly ungraceful sometimes
with high-risk staggering trauma histories
monoculturally LeftBrain
EgoCentric predative Yang
AnthroPrivileged Voices
stuck on healthy and safe past orthodox
value systems
personal insufficiency of co-invested time
and economic
and political sacred space
separate and unequal
multi-sensory
and yet anti-sexual
competitive dogmatic traditions
Not spiritually or naturally learning
so not wanting to let go
even for dawning light's healthy promise
to grab resiliently held recovery
healing dark
post-traumatic lose/lose
zero-sum global
ecocidal winterish nightmares
Dipolar co-arising
unconditional warm sun rising
well-moisturized
copassionately co-invested
wellness watered day dreams
and horizontal cardiovascular dances,
core-chakra interpersonal win/win
exercises
nonviolent practice
practice
practice
Until we get our cooperative peak experience
sacredly awesome
and restorative ego/ecojustice
left and right
up and down
in and out rebalanced again
BiLateral
BiCameral creolization
in timeless tides
of over-swelling
regenerativity
Not quite climaxing
so bleakly vulnerable alone
trapped in silent screaming stark
resounding Dark.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2023
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