Points of View

POINTS OF VIEW Took kids for fresh air to zoo and laughed - are we or they behind bars? Monkeys studying a parade of human specimens for their amusement: Point of view was a novelty for kids - Their cage locks were welded tight. Stone walls and iron bars do a prison make If our minds are the rigid stone and bars. Can monkeys fly? Do fish walk? Perhaps, I said. The kids laughed and then took photos Everyone laughed and denied their own photo - That’s not me! Of course it’s not. A two-dimension static image of a three-dimension dynamic person. The camera makes monkeys out of us. Cameras always lie...as a quoted scripture exerpt mayseem toprove anything. You can’t expect to understand a stream from a single stone pebble; You’ve got to see the whole flow and ebb for a truer picture. Let go of expectations. Expect nothing. But always hope for everything. We stopped at the ice-cream vendor. An optimistic realist expects nothing and is never disappointed - Expect nothing. Not even the unexpected. Your mind full of stones will always bar progress of spirit. Be empty of preconceived notions. New viewpoints are essential. With no fresh air, no winged ideas, no wind of change, comes Mildewed destruction of your spirit’s health. Poison to your system. Be the deep-flowing fresh stream, washing limitless pebbles : And if you get out of your depth, kids, then Don’t fail to come crying to me. ............................................................................................................... Written 1 July 2013 for Debbie Guzzi’s contest REFERENTIAL Exerpts used are from CLOSER by Chris Aechtner “caged snapshots of mildewed expectations,....on wings of letting go..”