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  <title>Poem - Gift of Insecurity</title>
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  <description>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”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gift of Insecurity&lt;br /&gt;Poem for Day 042 – 20150211&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You see me and react.&lt;br /&gt;I am not in your book.&lt;br /&gt;I am not the face of your god.&lt;br /&gt;So you react from your insecurity.&lt;br /&gt;You are taut as a drum,&lt;br /&gt;I pound out a beat.&lt;br /&gt;Orthodoxy has failed,&lt;br /&gt;Where are you now?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lost and adrift, afraid of me.&lt;br /&gt;No frame of reference.&lt;br /&gt;No shared commonality.&lt;br /&gt;Attack is the eventuality.&lt;br /&gt;I am marginalized, demonized,&lt;br /&gt;to boost your confidence.&lt;br /&gt;Evil among you, but my friend,&lt;br /&gt;this view is your hindrance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am human, not a demon.&lt;br /&gt;I am as divine as your kind.&lt;br /&gt;The differences you see here&lt;br /&gt;reveal to the blindness in you.&lt;br /&gt;Divinity has created us all, &lt;br /&gt;in all our differences.&lt;br /&gt;Your reactions are contrary,&lt;br /&gt;distant from your spirituality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Security is an illusion,&lt;br /&gt;the seeking beyond is frightening.&lt;br /&gt;Answers given to your questions,&lt;br /&gt;at the cost of former doctrine.&lt;br /&gt;Allow me to be, &lt;br /&gt;In my individuality,&lt;br /&gt;And you will understand&lt;br /&gt;the world as it is meant to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You now know more,&lt;br /&gt;insight hard gained&lt;br /&gt;about a larger world&lt;br /&gt;in which you are contained.&lt;br /&gt;So you see me and react.&lt;br /&gt;I cannot change, I am me,&lt;br /&gt;so I give you my friend&lt;br /&gt;the gift of insecurity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;© 2015. Sean Green. All Rights Reserved&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kokopelle&amp;ditemid=497183&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <category>insecurity</category>
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