What You Take
What we take
without asking first,
thanking second,
what is rightfully our property,
our valuables,
our commodities and loves
displayed across borrowed time
and limited grace space.
Yet I also take
what I am too ashamed to ask for,
then thank
for receiving selfless hand to open hand,
or hate for selfish lack of yes,
or resent negotiating maybes
or strings attached
further growing far more than rightful share
of shame and blame.
Shame,
engaging high risk acquisition choices
rather than trusting Earth's grace,
cooperative evolution of relationships
between those who have emotional wealth
and those who want to live healthier,
without self blame and guilt
for seductive needs,
win/win attractions,
aversions from Others' win/lose blame
guilt offerings,
zero-sum ridiculously immature
competition games
Final intimate NO in face of your hungry appetite
for self-regenerative identity,
less shame,
absence of guilt
for having become who you are,
for not having become
as you more lovingly intended
yet.
When did you first ask
if I want to make our bed together?
Right after I took your breath away
with I would rather do it myself.
Right before I froze your love
because you don't do us right.
When we take love away
without first asking
to play our passions forward
together,
fertile thanks rebounding back,
we grow shame for guilty win/lose needs
squeezing out what healthy win/win love
could otherwise breathe in.
What YangMind takes without asking
YinBody dispassion string attaches
Yang v Yin re-memory
Left v Right irreligious irritation
BlameMind v ShameBody
bipolar contentiousness,
leaving behind accessible opportunity
for more Yang/Yin
dipolar cooperative nest.
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