We talked about ...

​We talked about

You ask  

“How did we fill up the hour?”

We talked of claiming power

to just say no

of holding reality in the privacy of

one’s mind – a mind shaped by fears, hopes,
 
and childhood understandings.

We talked of the cloak of past abuse which 

seems, at times, permanently attached 

to the body which balks at getting out of

bed.

We talked of blessings  while one continues

to bleed of the wound of the most devastating

loss of all – that of a child.

We talked of anger or rather letting go of 

the anger which hides the fear of losing the 

ability to protect oneself and returning…

Returning to that prison which disguises itself as

a honeymoon suite.

We talked  of life.

Sometimes well lived.  Sometimes not.

Lastly, we talked of God who we sometimes 

make into our own image - 

a god who judges and expects perfection. 

I do not think this is the same God who smiles with us.

We talked.


Written October 4, 2016