Saturday, 11 March 2017

Soul Food

Where can you hope to belong
If parts of your own soul
Have been excised
And exiled

Can any rejection
Betrayal or abandonment
Possibly be, any more complete
Or indeed, any more devastating

In the presence of self-loathing
How then will one
Rise to the call
Of the oppressed

In a clutch moment
Persecution in plain view
Will self-preservation become the mandate
Projected self-hatred concluding - "they probably deserved it.."

At what point does silence
Become apathy and then condoning?
How many sub-optimal circumstances
Become subconscious "approved" resignation?

Illusory fragmented self-imagery
Identifies the myriad
Doorways inviting
A Return to Love

Shouldn't one's own company
Be the safest place imaginable?
Staying might court abandonment
Leaving an act of loving support

Soul alignment
May well call
For love and approval
From a source least willing to give





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