Fateful, two thoughts

I am to have Star Wars treatment,

placed in bondage in my space, 

laced and strapped and branded, 

ready for initiation fires

to permeate my skin, purge my sin, 

enter in to places undesired, 

exercise the halls that have inspired, 

pacify the devils now within, 

banish, excommunicate their whim,

starve them, beat them, flail them, shrivel them,

send them packing fast, 

save the rest a cavernous shell,

glean the remnants of my soul, 

change the negative into positive flow, 

a strange enlightenment method, 

so brutal, so brave, transformed, 

perhaps deformed and changed.

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 "THE MEANING OF DIVINE" Ann July 5th 2010.

Devout yet not, what's it about,

we live, we do our best in east and west, 

in north and south, show a smile, grimace, 

stake our sense of place and plant, 

grow taller, feeling smaller as we do, 

learning, failing, gaining knowledge, understanding

as we go from phase to phase of life its pattern, 

dance and cry, laugh and sing, always on alert,

for hurting, hurting others brothers lovers, 

all visit the mill, the will of your desires their fires,

once lit burn on if you regret you wail, if not, 

perhaps you got it right by chance, we melt

our challenges drudge and disappointments, 

fail to catch the essence of the joy that lies there waiting, 

use its inspiration, fuel for love and grace, 

even in our commonplace existence shines, 

the happiness of the meaning of divine.