tag:dreamwidth.org,2013-05-12:2014669 (are we there yet?) kokopelle 2015-02-11T21:39:33Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2013-05-12:2014669:497183 2015-02-11T21:39:33Z 2015-02-11T21:39:33Z contemplative public 0 I am rereading Alan Watt’s book “The Wisdom Insecurity”. I am also pondering why society reacts so badly to those who stray from the doctrine norm. The intersection of these thoughts is the poem “Gift of Insecurity”.<br /><br /><br />Gift of Insecurity<br />Poem for Day 042 – 20150211<br /><br />You see me and react.<br />I am not in your book.<br />I am not the face of your god.<br />So you react from your insecurity.<br />You are taut as a drum,<br />I pound out a beat.<br />Orthodoxy has failed,<br />Where are you now?<br /><br />Lost and adrift, afraid of me.<br />No frame of reference.<br />No shared commonality.<br />Attack is the eventuality.<br />I am marginalized, demonized,<br />to boost your confidence.<br />Evil among you, but my friend,<br />this view is your hindrance.<br /><br />I am human, not a demon.<br />I am as divine as your kind.<br />The differences you see here<br />reveal to the blindness in you.<br />Divinity has created us all, <br />in all our differences.<br />Your reactions are contrary,<br />distant from your spirituality.<br /><br />Security is an illusion,<br />the seeking beyond is frightening.<br />Answers given to your questions,<br />at the cost of former doctrine.<br />Allow me to be, <br />In my individuality,<br />And you will understand<br />the world as it is meant to be.<br /><br />You now know more,<br />insight hard gained<br />about a larger world<br />in which you are contained.<br />So you see me and react.<br />I cannot change, I am me,<br />so I give you my friend<br />the gift of insecurity.<br /><br />© 2015. Sean Green. All Rights Reserved<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kokopelle&ditemid=497183" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments