There's no major conflict
In your forseeable future except, perhaps, between
Warring factions of your belief system …
Personally, here's what catalyzes inner conflict for me:
How best to balance my existential needs while taking good care of my loved ones …
It seems as though I've always needed to know
What makes love relationships go tick tock like clock work
I mean, why else would intuition have led me
To make the study of family communications my life's work?
For instance:
What makes some of my relationships function traditionally
Like a grandfather clock
While others go coo-coo?
What makes some of my relationships
Feel light and breezy—easy
While others grow ever more darkly intense?
Why did TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR part 1
Suggest that I'd felt compelled to 'interview' my mom
When our relationship had been so loving and close that
We'd enjoyed open channels of conversation, flowing
Naturally, back and forth with the fluency of clarity?
And if I'd married my best friend
Then what caused our love to come undone?
Why is it that fate arranges for two good souls to
Engage in an intuitive connection that
Inspires both comfort zones to expand while
The comfort zones of others
Remain firmly rooted in the ways of the past?
Though personal growth leads to change for the better
It's also true that change arouses fear of the unknown
And if you ask why
Anxiety causes relaxed relationships to grow darkly intense
I'd reply: Certain topics, which we're 'taught' are taboo
Are in need of being discussed, openly, so that
Clarity does not diminish at those times when
Emotional confusion causes anxiety to heighten
Having studied communications for most of my adult life
I've gained a sense of openness, concerning
Speaking freely of subjects that
Cause others to blush, clam up or back off
As we come to understand that it's common for
One person's growth spurt to unnerve others
Common sense suggests the need for
Two well-organized minds to engage in
A discussion that deepens our understanding concerning
The true meaning of roots and wings
If it's natural for one person's growth spurt
To cause a deeply valued relationship to intensify
That fact leads me to ask:
Must bonds of good natured, mutual support come undone?
I mean, what if common sense suggests that
'Something', which had once played out harmonically
Begins to feel discordant ... Is the instrument trashed?
At times when anxiety floods two minds, at once
Creating discordancy of that which had felt harmonic to both
Doesn't that indicate some part of the instrument
Is in need of fine tuning?
And isn't it likely that whatever is in need of fine tuning
May be identified by exploring reasons that
Cause anxiety to emerge from within
The subconscious pockets of one or both brains?
I mean—really—can you imagine
Any complex instrument that never needs retuning?
In fact, whether we imagine our brains
As being—two mix masters, stuck on high
Or a duet of pianos in need of a tune up
Or a pair of gerbils, running in cages on wheels
Or two lucky ducks, longing for dark clouds to pass as
Both hope to enjoy sunny days in the park—
Doesn't it make sense to put two smart hearts together
And take time out to ponder on Walden Pond, concerning
That which has actually changed in hopes that
Both minds may relax once this fact is absorbed as true:
Somewhere along the line
Clogs and glitches in your thought processor and mine
May cause both minds to
Switch to a fear based track at the very same time, thus
Causing soul-mates to spiral off in separate directions, which prove
Totally out of context with what both spirits need to thrive
Seriously—what if each growth spurt is meant to catalyze
A mind-boggling conundrum in need of
Time spent in deep thought before resolution is ours
For example ...
What if one person's growth spurt serves as a signal to another to
Reconsider a mind set in need of expansion?
Let's say you agree that my recent trains of thought
Make as much sense to you as they do to me—if
That proves true then may I humbly suggest
That we look inside to see
When each of us may have absorbed and stored
An experience, during childhood, that proves in need of
Re-examination in a safe place with a trusted friend as to ensure
That ghosts from the past, which we've each lugged forward
Do not scare two smart hearts half out of our wits—ever again
Perhaps, while exploring contradictions that boggle our minds
Thus stimulating a heightened sense of anxiety, which in turn
Causes existential needs to repress
We'll each develop a new found sense of
Mindfulness necessary to embrace an expanded sense of
Soulful connectedness which our spirits need to thrive
And if, at this point in my dissertation, you think to ask:
Annie, what makes so many heartfelt relationships go haywire?
You must know, by now, that
I'd reply—with utter conviction:
SUBCONSCIOUS FEARS, WHICH REMAIN UNIDENTIFIED
Then, if you go on to ask: Why does unidentified anxiety
Cause the strength of certain heartfelt connections to implode
I'd reply:
Unidentified anxiety flips logic on its ear
Once fear outweighs logic
Our defense systems slide the scales in such a way
As to make us believe that the vulnerabilities of others
Seem more weighty than our own
In truth, it takes strength in self awareness to
Accept accountability for trains of thought that flip us out
And since this mindful train of thought has
Come to the end of the line for today
And since it's friends and family time
And since living with Grandma taught me to value a great sale ...
And since my 25% coupons are hot to trot
It's off to Macy's I go!
In your forseeable future except, perhaps, between
Warring factions of your belief system …
Personally, here's what catalyzes inner conflict for me:
How best to balance my existential needs while taking good care of my loved ones …
It seems as though I've always needed to know
What makes love relationships go tick tock like clock work
I mean, why else would intuition have led me
To make the study of family communications my life's work?
For instance:
What makes some of my relationships function traditionally
Like a grandfather clock
While others go coo-coo?
What makes some of my relationships
Feel light and breezy—easy
While others grow ever more darkly intense?
Why did TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR part 1
Suggest that I'd felt compelled to 'interview' my mom
When our relationship had been so loving and close that
We'd enjoyed open channels of conversation, flowing
Naturally, back and forth with the fluency of clarity?
And if I'd married my best friend
Then what caused our love to come undone?
Why is it that fate arranges for two good souls to
Engage in an intuitive connection that
Inspires both comfort zones to expand while
The comfort zones of others
Remain firmly rooted in the ways of the past?
Though personal growth leads to change for the better
It's also true that change arouses fear of the unknown
And if you ask why
Anxiety causes relaxed relationships to grow darkly intense
I'd reply: Certain topics, which we're 'taught' are taboo
Are in need of being discussed, openly, so that
Clarity does not diminish at those times when
Emotional confusion causes anxiety to heighten
Having studied communications for most of my adult life
I've gained a sense of openness, concerning
Speaking freely of subjects that
Cause others to blush, clam up or back off
As we come to understand that it's common for
One person's growth spurt to unnerve others
Common sense suggests the need for
Two well-organized minds to engage in
A discussion that deepens our understanding concerning
The true meaning of roots and wings
If it's natural for one person's growth spurt
To cause a deeply valued relationship to intensify
That fact leads me to ask:
Must bonds of good natured, mutual support come undone?
I mean, what if common sense suggests that
'Something', which had once played out harmonically
Begins to feel discordant ... Is the instrument trashed?
At times when anxiety floods two minds, at once
Creating discordancy of that which had felt harmonic to both
Doesn't that indicate some part of the instrument
Is in need of fine tuning?
And isn't it likely that whatever is in need of fine tuning
May be identified by exploring reasons that
Cause anxiety to emerge from within
The subconscious pockets of one or both brains?
I mean—really—can you imagine
Any complex instrument that never needs retuning?
In fact, whether we imagine our brains
As being—two mix masters, stuck on high
Or a duet of pianos in need of a tune up
Or a pair of gerbils, running in cages on wheels
Or two lucky ducks, longing for dark clouds to pass as
Both hope to enjoy sunny days in the park—
Doesn't it make sense to put two smart hearts together
And take time out to ponder on Walden Pond, concerning
That which has actually changed in hopes that
Both minds may relax once this fact is absorbed as true:
Somewhere along the line
Clogs and glitches in your thought processor and mine
May cause both minds to
Switch to a fear based track at the very same time, thus
Causing soul-mates to spiral off in separate directions, which prove
Totally out of context with what both spirits need to thrive
Seriously—what if each growth spurt is meant to catalyze
A mind-boggling conundrum in need of
Time spent in deep thought before resolution is ours
For example ...
What if one person's growth spurt serves as a signal to another to
Reconsider a mind set in need of expansion?
Let's say you agree that my recent trains of thought
Make as much sense to you as they do to me—if
That proves true then may I humbly suggest
That we look inside to see
When each of us may have absorbed and stored
An experience, during childhood, that proves in need of
Re-examination in a safe place with a trusted friend as to ensure
That ghosts from the past, which we've each lugged forward
Do not scare two smart hearts half out of our wits—ever again
Perhaps, while exploring contradictions that boggle our minds
Thus stimulating a heightened sense of anxiety, which in turn
Causes existential needs to repress
We'll each develop a new found sense of
Mindfulness necessary to embrace an expanded sense of
Soulful connectedness which our spirits need to thrive
And if, at this point in my dissertation, you think to ask:
Annie, what makes so many heartfelt relationships go haywire?
You must know, by now, that
I'd reply—with utter conviction:
SUBCONSCIOUS FEARS, WHICH REMAIN UNIDENTIFIED
Then, if you go on to ask: Why does unidentified anxiety
Cause the strength of certain heartfelt connections to implode
I'd reply:
Unidentified anxiety flips logic on its ear
Once fear outweighs logic
Our defense systems slide the scales in such a way
As to make us believe that the vulnerabilities of others
Seem more weighty than our own
In truth, it takes strength in self awareness to
Accept accountability for trains of thought that flip us out
And since this mindful train of thought has
Come to the end of the line for today
And since it's friends and family time
And since living with Grandma taught me to value a great sale ...
And since my 25% coupons are hot to trot
It's off to Macy's I go!
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