November 10th, 2016 10:43pm
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From my "Post-scription" series. (AKA After Words)
Offering Words as Medicine to the Suffering.
I know a woman, we dined in ABQ
I think just the once
I remember the hot weather, the hot food
the hot blues, and our dinner.
I remember her.
Today she's said she has
"felt cold since" Tuesday.
That's a day she thinks the
country was "declared insane."
She says she's "never cold."
She might need now to remember that
the warmth comes from Love,
from connection.
She might need now to remember that
the heat comes from Action
from constructiveness.
- and so, I reach here to her
with warmth, in Love, to
offer a hot tip.
Grieve, surf the cold, cold waves as they crash
around...but wax your board, check the
tide tables; surf the crashing cold, but study
the breaks, sing to the seals, rise early.
I don't know why a lady I met but once
(I think) and who lives a continent away,
in the arid vastness of New Mexico, would
jibe to a surfing analogy but hey, that's me -
it came, I typed, she'll read it?
She says she's "never cold."
She says she's "never cold."
So, after the crashing, the submerging, the dampening
of passions and dreams and plans...
set about the task of Making things Hot again
act, act, act, action, action, action.
serve another, serve food, serve ideas, serve minds.
These services will be the stoking of the inner fire
and fire is a catalyst for change.
Also, its nice to surf beside a beachside bonfire.
Copyright © Stephe Watson | Year Posted 2017
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