105. LIVING, LOVING, LAUGHING—LEARNING, HEALING, FORGIVING!

What may happen when
A person you love
Is here today
Gone tomorrow?

Though
It's natural for
Your spirit to depress
For quite some time—

What may happen
If the best part of
Your joie de vie
Fails to resurrect?

If
Your body is alive
While your spirit
Remains depressed—

Then
What could be
More tragic
For a family to endure

Than the loss
Of two loved ones
When in truth
One still lives?

If
The spirits of those
Who have passed
Live on in our hearts

Then
What may happen
When year after year
The spirit of a living loved one is caught in the past?

In answer to that question
Here is an insight
Which sheds light
On the darkness of this TIMELESS TRUTH:

If
The spirit of a loved one
Continues to
Pine for yesteryear

Then
The spirit of a loved one
Who holds fast to the safety net
May grow dispirited in turn

And as that leaning effect
Exemplifies how
One domino ‘pulls down’ another
These questions arise:

If
Life
Is
Fleeting

Then
How long shall spirit #3
Stand steadfastly in place
Holding onto that safety net made of hope?

If
Years continue to pass
And the tower dweller leans but can not leap
From past to present ...

Then
What change needs to take place
When the energies of spirit of #3
Show signs of exhausting?

Common sense suggests
Tis time for everyone who cares
To listen with compassion and acuity
To pleas for help when hope for positive change—wains

On the other hand
Wouldn't it be
A crying shame
If

Instead of playing FOUR PILLARS
Where depth perception
And positive focus remain steadfast …
THE BLAME GAME picks up pace?

How often doth misperception
And dismissal of too heavy a weight
Throw love, friendship and good will
Under the BUS?

What doth it take
For this sad scenario
To become a win-win situation
For all who care?

Common sense suggests that
Positive change depends upon
Time spent in reflection
On Walden Pond

Common sense suggests that
Living LIFE to its fullest
Depends upon resuscitating
Laughing, Loving, Learning, healing—

Rather than
Leaning toward
Mourning, judging, blaming ...
Indefinitely

Common sense suggests that
Healing
Precedes
Forgiving

And if each of these
Insights
Makes as much sense
To you as each does to me

Then
May I
Respectfully
Suggest that

Tis time
For more of us to take
A leap of faith
Away from subconscious attitudes of distrust

And toward
A safety net
Where expanded views
Of love and life transform ...

Defensive attitudes of 'shame on you'
Into four pillars of friendship
So that positively focused attitudes
Can heal wounds all around

And if that insight makes sense
Then I hope you'll work along with me
To encourage folks around the world
To piece together Bigger Pictures so that ...
.
One fine day
In the distant future ...
(Most likely after we're gone
While our spirits live on) …

THE POWER OF ONE
Holding hands with THE POWERS OF MANY
May inspire children
Like Annie and Joseph

To grow up
And embrace
THE POWER OF RESOLVING CONFLICTS
BY WAY OF SEEKING INSIGHT INTO:

BIGGER PICTURES
DOMINO EFFECTS—be they positive or negative
THE PILLARS OF FRIENDSHIP—and
LIVING, LOVING, LAUGHING—LEARNING—HEALING, FORGIVING!

Eighteen
Countries
And
Counting …

And how
Positively
Affirming
Is that!

That's
The
Truth
:-)