our space filled
with random words
incautiously chosen
graffiti
staining the façade
of our everyday view
peace
love faith
unity
like poetry
nothing is how it seems
not now
only words
we must question
what each one means
despite our feelings
how can we not believe
everything we read
10/27/2023 j.g.l.
The lines outline where we are, in
moments and more. Each step
we take, each day we make some
sort of mark on the landscape.
Our life, as temporary as it seems,
continues to pass us by.
Season by season.
We must embrace the reminders
of who we are, not what we
have been. Like where you are
will constantly change from
where you have been.
At times it is a blur.
We remain convinced by this
confusion, and seldom make the
right assumptions, in the moments
where we wish to define ourselves.
10/24/2023 j.g.l.
Is this world as fractured
as we are led to believe?
Politically, ideologically,
or spiritually, fault lines
are obvious.
It is not superficial.
Are all thoughts jumbled
or is that just me?
Can we look ahead? Dare we
glance back? What was there?
Is what we see now all
that is worth knowing?
Can we learn more?
Do we want to?
Do we need to?
© 2020 j.g. lewis
Today is as good as it gets.
Maybe tomorrow will be better?
10/19/2022 j.g.l.
My therapist reminded me, yesterday, of a phrase she had used before and one I had heard a long time ago.
They were wonderful words that I had forgotten, somehow, caught up in all I have been doing, or in things I have been trying to understand or attempting to accomplish.
It is a simple phrase I need to remember more often: We are human beings, not human doings.
Our goal, above all else, should be to simply be without thinking, or overburdening ourselves with all we are trying to be . . . even all we are trying to understand.
Instead, we often get caught up in all we are doing, and most of us try to do so much or are involved in too much.
It becomes too much.
We are all human.
I was reminded later in the day of something I had written to myself a long while back. It is something I need to remind myself of more often: You are only human; so is everybody else.
10/17/2023 j.g.l.