Things I Forget To Ask

What does it feel like to wake up into your skin?
Your day?
What do you feel first most days?
Is it in any way influenced by gratitude,
or totally given over to worry,
anxious
or, worse, anticipating 
shortness of healthy mind time
and insufficiency of safe body space?

What do you feel you most vulnerably need?
What do you think you most transparently want?

If your deep security
and your wide integrity 
are dissonantly dissociated
why not resonance?

And if they, together, 
anticipate contented health
of non-contentious wealth,
why peace-making resilience?
 
Is this life the one you had in mind and body as a child?
When did this that you do to fill your enriching days 
and peaceful years 
become your impassioned dream?
Or is it your nightmare?
Or something wavering in between?
If so, which parts are closest to your dream
and what were you doing
with whom 
and why
as this became your thick sweet nurturing cream?

Were these relationships good passion mentors
inside this morning's wealthy re-gathering you
now re-membering from outside 
last night's healthiest view?

How did you get to this day, 
this place, 
this non-vacation re-engaging vocation?
When did your lonely longing nightmare start?
if it has
and is this something more than fear
of your own shadow dream's
cherished belonging 
yet disembodied 
loss?

Too late
this one last chance to live
with unmitigated love.
 
What is that one thing that sets you apart,
that is your unique character imprint?
How is your identity unique from all others amusing now,
or still speaking from the past,
or listening for future's healthiest active wealth?
Sage musing peak communions

And, if your unique dignity is no one thing,
but a constellation of empowering divine attributes,
compassionate characteristics, 
amusing co-empathic dreams 
defusing fears, 
music's rhythmic wisdom,
silent resting aspirations, 
cooperative relationships, 
co-infested pleasure memories,
nonverbal nonviolent communications,
peace warrior paradoxical miscommunications,
severed unwise discommunions,
then how is any one of those unique to you?

If none is,
after due consideration,
then how are you not part of Me
and all that is inter-religioned 
to negative and positive We
traumatized and therapeutic you?

Like Us,
Me/We co-related with Others
apart from Othering
less directly felt within you
as you are
and have been
on back to emergent peaks and valleys 
of flowing 
open memory, 
capacity to win/win reimagine
 
Our resonantly resilient 
EarthMother recreative neurosystems
unconditionally regarding
WakingSelf
as part of DreamingOther
in continuous EarthMother's
eco-womanist circles 
and ego-patriarchal lines

Spiraling regenerating cycles
of uniting/universal seasons 
and lunar light 
empowering just in time
spaciously sufficient reasons.
 
What do you imagine was that first star memory?
Do you think it was of longing 
or belonging,
or somehow both?
anticipated contentment 
waiting within anxious contention
inside complex harmonic resolution 
wavering toward our near co-passioned future 
outside violating revolutions

Daily win/lose evolutions co-arising 
in noncontentious 
nonverbally contenting
personal waking up 
potential pronoia peak elation
not paranoia weak experiences
in deep retiring depression
 
ReStorying contentment
health informing 
positive ionic flow,
nonlanguaged syntax of sequentially reasoned glow,
to know and love nature's wise resolving resolutions
resonance within minds
resiliently embodied without

Do you sometimes feel
unitarian roots below, 
more deeply enthymematic
and sacredly panentheistic
than monotheistic 
universal crowns above?

Evolution and Revolution 
each respectfully growing
Yintegral mind and Yang body
song and dance resolutions,
slow and fast-paced placed momentum
optimizing balanced incoming polymorphic form,
polyculturing grace inflection,
polyphonic bipartisan solutions.

Can you still recognize
dusky memory-wrinkled contentment?
confluently reflowing day
dreaming joyous peaks 
and full-moon river valleyed wonder
preflowing polyvagal 
co-ecstatic awe.

Could this evening's prime health-culturing balance,
optimize indigenous re-ligion's meaning,
minimizing tomorrow's monoculturally rapacious 
Anthro-privileged lonely gleanings?

Severance from bold body engaging wonder,
immortal terror 
climaxing revolutionary mind-spirit shock
trusting cosmic panentheistic awe,
unconditionally sacred 
pronoia Me/We warm regard.

What does it feel like to reawake 
into your bicameral nurturing heart?
This newly unbenighted 
cooperatively empowering day?

What do you feel liberating 
unitarian first passions
and also conserving least risk to 
night-time universal pleasure?

Are this day's relationships 
in any way influenced by anticipating 
or not
evening's cool outside
yet warm inside
gratitude embrace?

At least not totally given over to worry,
anxiety about our secularized 
insufficient shortness 
of what had eternally promised 
to heal formerly sacred 
impassioned singing
and pleasure dancing
dawn light greetings,
mindful meetings...

What does it feel like to wake up 
into your repurposed skin?
Your unretiring day?
What do you feel first 
most healthy body
and wealthy mind MidWays?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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March 17, 2016 at 4:47 PM
I can hear the spoken word vibe in this one. Very good!
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February 19, 2015 at 6:49 PM
Gerald:) Congratulations on having your awesome poem featured on the soups Home Page. ~SKAT LOVE~
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February 19, 2015 at 7:24 PM
Thank you so much. You came to mind as I was finishing up "Being It." Jerry
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January 31, 2015 at 1:28 AM
Gerald, A nice warm WELCOME to poetry soup. I hope you have fun in this wonderful community. You'll find many friendly poets, who are ready to support and give positive feedback. I want to be the first to invite you on over to the contest page. I OFFER MY CONTEST in hopes it inspires you in some way. I will enjoy following you and your poetry:) This is a great way to start the New Year. Lucky Us, To Have you. Enjoy 2015, with New Poet Friends! @-> LINDA <-@
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January 31, 2015 at 1:04 AM
Gerald, Stopping by with a nice, sweet Welcome to Poetry Soup. I will get much delight, in reading and in time become familiar with your verse. As for now, I will greet you with the same smile, others passed, when I first join the soup. Wishing you and your poetry the best. I hope you get to meet all the nice poet's around here. Starting with me. SKAT :-) Please drop a hello and tell me a little about yourself if you wish. I would like to be your newest poetry soup "FRIEND" Hugs* SKAT
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January 29, 2015 at 1:53 PM
No wonders the wonders in which wanderers found a continent "like the contentment waiting within harmonic contention".Charming and stunning!
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