The Neighbor's Wife
He's been struggling with depression,
She said, so then have I.
It's our bad news
that competing depressions
breed more contagiously
than our cooperation feeds happiness.
Yet our good news grows:
Depression and positive impression
are equally contagious passions
pastimes
eruptions into changing flowstreams of consciousness,
evolving communal conscientiousness,
naked co-relational intention,
interdependent awareness,
dawning enchantment with disenchanting dusky stories,
natural power causes spiriting light effects
causing co-acclimating affects
Positive and negative passions,
pressures,
impressions,
compression.
I've been struggling against his self-repression,
she said,
so then he worries about his oppressive powers
financial and political and emotional,
physical and mental.
He doesn't hit me
or any sentient being
but scares me when he hits
and manhandles against his phone,
kicks against his car,
strikes against his walls and doors
and dark-shaded windows,
his property he most transparently cares about,
relies upon.
This chronic environment of fear,
seeing his violent anger
causes our climate anxiety
and a lack of safely vulnerable expression,
chronic trauma repression.
The difference between my suppressed fear feelings
of repression
and his depressed anger feelings,
oppressively threatening to disinvest
despite his great attraction to narcissistic We
v Them
is a real-talk difference
only if we both equitably know
we are each free to affordably leave,
cut our future health-opportunity losses,
without threat of violent and impoverishing
absence of wealth
repercussions.
While a free Get Out Of Jail card
and a blinking Safe Exit sign
over our back doors
and front floors
and aside windows
are not much for sharing resonant journeys
toward active compassion,
co-operative wonder,
interactively resilient awe,
co-infested health and happiness,
prosperous food for mind embodied fitness
Yet neither is flood insurance,
cooperatively affordable re-assurance,
a sign of bad faith in safe and dry land.
Oppression
becomes aggressive repression
without freedom to afford exit strategies
And ego repression
invites eco-systemic depression
without mutual freedom to catch and re-catch compassion
with and for each faithful interdependent Other,
sentient and sexsensed as our safe alliance
for absorbing cooperative resonance
Practicing win/win resilience,
practicing re-alliance,
practicing integrity
of positive compassionate pleasures.
Negative depressions stem from lonely longing origins
internal and external,
As positive impressions
grow from nakedly practiced compassion,
Solidarity belonging and bred
within ego/eco-cooperative fed
root nutritional systems
Fitness energy for actively appreciating
each wounded and wounding Other,
including sacred hims
and vulnerable hers,
transparently discussing fist-vulnerable hands
and heads,
and stomping, kicking feet,
and bad-news phones
and unreliable cars
and imprisoning homes
and patriarchal predative supremacists
As if all lives
and interdependent relationships
mattered
for altering depressive competitions
and for continuing impressive cooperations.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2019
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