you looked at me
and I was stricken
taken
by first glance
elevated
by pristine heavenly virtue
my heart throbs
with a child-like innocence

what a wonder
is a mother
she drives up behind a school bus
catching it at the light
jumps out of her car
and thru the cell-like window
hands her beloved child
his sack lunch...

embrace adversity

when we are all safe and secure
we are dead
outer life must have risk
the only saftey
is in the quiet security of heart
the rain, wind and cold
awaken the warmth
in our hearts...
embrace adversity

people that don't want to accept help
from "the system"
but are looking for a handout
yet don't want to participate...
these are thoz
who have fallen thru the web
the saftey net

the hardness of egotism
must be cracked
there need be a surrender
a willngness to go beyond
self-structured strictures
to escape the prison without walls

spiritual joy
a "meltdown experience"
far surpassing any physical pleasure