Hmmm ...
Karma
Is Annie's good or bad?
Or
Does one's karma develop unknowingly from within?
Let's check that out by reflecting over facts known so far:
Annie had the good fortune
To have been born to parents
Who greeted her arrival with an abundance of love
Extended family offered Annie safe keeping in their hearts as well
It's a fact that the soothing nature of this child's strong spirited smile
Held out a sense of security, warmed by compassionate comraderie
Which dried the tears of fearful kindergarten classmates
Thus making a positively focused, budding leader of our girl
Before she ever knew what leadership was, how it felt
Or what was necessary to keep that trait working shipshape
As positive focus breathed naturally within Annie ...
She rallied in defense of anyone bullied within the arena
Where she felt utterly safe and thus ...
Changing schools and making new friends left her undaunted
In fact, with her strong spirited, positively focused smile aglow
She'd unconsciously transform strangers into friends
By unknowingly drawing others toward
The natural warmth of her flame wherever she went
This train of thought points toward
A child's karma developing in tandem with
Her unconscious array of inner strengths
And thus did we watch Annie's self confident sparkle
Await the arrival of the Hebrew bus without fearful need
Of pretense, guile or courage, at all
Unfortunately, it's always what we don't know
And can't prepare for that gets us in the neck
Unfortunately, when Annie's spirit was stampeded
Unexpectedly, repeatedly
Severely enough to have caused a protective wall to erect around
The natural bent of her positive focus
We watched the vulnerability of a child's mind
Absorb reason to lay fearfully low ...
Not just for a while ...
Because close to her core she'll have developed
A subconscious need to remain constantly on guard
Meaning that as we watch her responses
To young womanhood's awakenings
We'll witness youth's bludgeoned strengths limping forward ...
Cowering fearfully of incurring new layers of pain
Atop the battered rawness of ridicule still festering layers below
Despite the fact that Annie's positively focused traits
Will continue to win hearts wherever she chooses to go
Ah—if only we could see ourselves as we are, today
We'd develop a better idea of whom to invest with our trust vs. not
Thank goodness, the natural warmth of Annie's smile, which—
Despite her fear of encountering additional, brow beatings—
Will not dull the inner glow
That will win Annie the trust of those
Who come close enough to sense the best
That she has to offer as birthdays come and go
Though Annie's mind and spirit each had reason to split into two
Inner strengths, developed early on, will sustain her buoyancy
Unless the merest scent of negatively fueled domination
Scares her positive focus so silly as to dizzy her sense of logic
Causing her passion for life grow so passive as to
Force the strength of her spirit to withdraw, duck and roll away
From whatever appears to place her sense of safety in harms way
Whew!
As you can see, this post suggests my belief
That the dichotomy
Separating a person's good karma from bad
Exists within
And having tossed this theory in the air
Let's return to Annie's first weeks in high school
And see what this dicotomy of inner karma
Has in store for a dark haired, blue eyed
High spirited, fourteen year old, next ...
Karma
Is Annie's good or bad?
Or
Does one's karma develop unknowingly from within?
Let's check that out by reflecting over facts known so far:
Annie had the good fortune
To have been born to parents
Who greeted her arrival with an abundance of love
Extended family offered Annie safe keeping in their hearts as well
It's a fact that the soothing nature of this child's strong spirited smile
Held out a sense of security, warmed by compassionate comraderie
Which dried the tears of fearful kindergarten classmates
Thus making a positively focused, budding leader of our girl
Before she ever knew what leadership was, how it felt
Or what was necessary to keep that trait working shipshape
As positive focus breathed naturally within Annie ...
She rallied in defense of anyone bullied within the arena
Where she felt utterly safe and thus ...
Changing schools and making new friends left her undaunted
In fact, with her strong spirited, positively focused smile aglow
She'd unconsciously transform strangers into friends
By unknowingly drawing others toward
The natural warmth of her flame wherever she went
This train of thought points toward
A child's karma developing in tandem with
Her unconscious array of inner strengths
And thus did we watch Annie's self confident sparkle
Await the arrival of the Hebrew bus without fearful need
Of pretense, guile or courage, at all
Unfortunately, it's always what we don't know
And can't prepare for that gets us in the neck
Unfortunately, when Annie's spirit was stampeded
Unexpectedly, repeatedly
Severely enough to have caused a protective wall to erect around
The natural bent of her positive focus
We watched the vulnerability of a child's mind
Absorb reason to lay fearfully low ...
Not just for a while ...
Because close to her core she'll have developed
A subconscious need to remain constantly on guard
Meaning that as we watch her responses
To young womanhood's awakenings
We'll witness youth's bludgeoned strengths limping forward ...
Cowering fearfully of incurring new layers of pain
Atop the battered rawness of ridicule still festering layers below
Despite the fact that Annie's positively focused traits
Will continue to win hearts wherever she chooses to go
Ah—if only we could see ourselves as we are, today
We'd develop a better idea of whom to invest with our trust vs. not
Thank goodness, the natural warmth of Annie's smile, which—
Despite her fear of encountering additional, brow beatings—
Will not dull the inner glow
That will win Annie the trust of those
Who come close enough to sense the best
That she has to offer as birthdays come and go
Though Annie's mind and spirit each had reason to split into two
Inner strengths, developed early on, will sustain her buoyancy
Unless the merest scent of negatively fueled domination
Scares her positive focus so silly as to dizzy her sense of logic
Causing her passion for life grow so passive as to
Force the strength of her spirit to withdraw, duck and roll away
From whatever appears to place her sense of safety in harms way
Whew!
As you can see, this post suggests my belief
That the dichotomy
Separating a person's good karma from bad
Exists within
And having tossed this theory in the air
Let's return to Annie's first weeks in high school
And see what this dicotomy of inner karma
Has in store for a dark haired, blue eyed
High spirited, fourteen year old, next ...
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