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This poem could just as well been published on either blog, given that people are people are people, whatever their sexual orientation or socio-cultural-religious background. Many if not most of us would agree, of course, while just as many others continue to judge LGBT people differently.
Sometimes
we wake up and wonder, we bother? Time then to force ourselves to prepare
for another day, throw open curtains and windows, breathe in deeply, imbibe the
sweeter sounds and smells of life and let them inspire us...in spite of
everything that seems to be working against us.
Now, nature
may well be as fickle as humankind, but we have but to open our minds to acknowledge
its capacity for life, love, and peace to feel invited and inspired to share in
it all … and let sheer willpower do the rest, albeit with a native inclination for positive thinking in the driving seat.
No? Try
it, and see. It has worked wonders for me over all of 70+ years, even getting me through a bad nervous breakdown in my 30's.
Did I say it was easy ... ?
CURTAIN
RISING ON A SENSE OF WHAT'S WHAT
Human hearts top-heavy,
so needing to give expression
to an ache
in the soul,
but no one to listen, everyone
playing pass-the-parcel
with us to avoid being put
on the spot or delivering us up
to an
answering machine
Come, let's at least try
to appreciate how Earth Mother
does her best for us
Sunshine in a misty rain
making pretty flowers
grow;
heavens shedding tears
for us even while raising smiles
on human faces
etched with pain if only
for having gone that
extra mile
and been let down
Longing
for loved ones
far away (or dead) to give us a hug,
make
everything all right
Listen! The
trees are singing
in
country, city, and town;
Look!
Children laughing, playing,
lovers wishing
on stars,
Life forces ever reaching
out to us,
inviting us to share in it all,
though human nature play us
fair or foul
Copyright
R. N. Taber 2007; 2014
[Note: An earlier version of this poem appears under the title 'Curtain Rising in Accomplices to Illusion by R. N. Taber, Assembly Books, 2007.]
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