Isolation

"Existentialism - a philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual in a hostile or indifferent universe and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's actions."

Pleasure and Pain
entwined
I must forgive
in my lust
to love

Die Without Fear?
Die Without Fear!

Enter my grave with
a smile on my face

I will, must, flee
this earth, this life
in order to find liberty.

Inspiring
Loathsome
Rage

Imploring
MY
Deceitful
Devil
within

I aspire to delay
the decay
of this moment.

DEFIANTLY
SEEKING

DISTINCTION

Remember me, please!

I ascend
transcend
this world, this life, this body

Think of me, please!

I am confined to this time
this world, this life, this body

unable to grow
I pursue
more
than this!

MORE THAN THIS!!

Never ending circles
of meaningless
life.

Do not pity me.
Pity you.
We have choice.

So You Know

"My Sum Is Greater Than My Parts"

Kabbalah

"I Will Be What I Will Be."

Eternal

Heavy Heart

Aching Pain

Joyless Joy

Deep, Pure

and

True

Find Strength

In The Gift

Forever

Find Hope

In The Knowledge

Eternal

Mind

Heart

Body

Soul

Time Eternal

Flame Of Life

Grasp Wisdom

Seek Freedom

Unloosen The Chains

That Bind

Constrict

Cut

Life Is Fleeting

Moments Gone

Passing Time In

The Eye Of

The Storm

My ONLY Certainty

Is Death Comes

Slowly Leaving

Life

Humbled

Blind

Naive

Finding Hope

Renewing Growth

Eating Away

The Core Of

LIFE

Life

life

Life Is Finding

The Freedom To

Die

Satisfied

BE SATISFIED

Lose Fear

Love Passionately

Forgive YOU

Forgive ME

Forgive THEM

Love WITHOUT Fear

No Regrets

Do Not Bind

Yourself/Myself

To Cynicism

Do Not Bind

Yourself/Myself

To

Our Past

Do Not Resign

Yourself/Myself

To A Pre-ordained

Future

Give Freely

Lose Pride

In A Passionate Release

Give Way To

Possibilities

Strength Enduring

To Keep

Searching

Happiness Can Be

Fleeting

Or

Live Eternal

hamlet

"Life Is A Tale
Told By An Idiot
Full Of Sound And Fury
Signifying Nothing."

maxine

"That was your gift to me-

there-that was the place

where my life bent away from itself

to join something else,

just as when we say

it did not happen to only me

we begin to give up the self,

saying that it happens to all of us

and that is when we begin to hear

and to speak and to give up our silence."

-Maxine Scates-

Is this Reality?

fascination
in a warped
sense of reality

violence, greed, hunger, hate?

activisim
connected to
art

intellectual world
spiritual heart

My body is my art?
My mind is my art?

magnify the trivia
of our lives

Live to Love
Love to Hate?

propganda feeds
our lies
our lives

I mask myself
my face - my real
disguise

passionate violences
creates criminals
out of activists

reconcile yourself
myself

to the world that we
created
the god that we
created

the world that we
perpetuate

I stagnate
cannot move
cannot feel
cannot cry

cannot change
myself
my world
our world

our lives

Living Proof

Pain
cannot
will not
be
ignored

Push it away
Cover your eyes
pretend
and
pray

But
until
you

see
taste
feel
hear
and
smell
it

You will be
haunted
hurt
hunted

Pain
must be
unavoidably
acknowledged

Spoken
Shared
Singled
out
and

told
and

believed
and

heard

while
you - I - me
WE
listen

So
That
you - I - me
WE
can

grow
change
heal

AND

Let Go
Be Real
Be Whole

NEW

Beautiful
Alive and Free

Open the door and Walk through pain

Inevitable

How can I write anything new
Now that I no longer have you

You were my muse
my light
my dark angel
my knight
in too much armor

You tore my heart apart
I wrote
You broke my soul in two
I wrote

You pushed me away
Without ever letting go

You showed me the door
but always kept it closed

You destroyed my innocence
I wrote

You ended my childhood
I wrote

You were my bruise
my sight
my archangel
my night
who shut out the day

You held me tight
While saying "I don’t love you"

You kissed my lips
And whispered "the end is here"

"I love you"
when I’m gone
"Please leave"
when I’m near

This was inevitable
and I write

Glamour

Religion
Sex
Culture
Work

How far can you make it on your looks?

Nail Polish
Mascara
Rouge
Lip Wax

After-Shave
Cologne
Deodorant
Back Wax

How much can you change about how you look?

Weights
Aerobics
Botox
Silicone

Dexatrim
Phen-fen
Steroids
Creatine

How much money do you spend on looks?

45 BILLION
Dollar
Thinness
Industry

30 BILLION
Dollar
Youth
Industry

Fashion
Beauty
Masks
Reality

Spend that money on some therapy!!!

Honor

I am
A Jew
I am
Black
I am
A Buddhist
I am
White
I am
A Hindu
I am
Indigenous
I am
A Wiccan
I am
Hispanic
I am
A Christian
I am
Asian
I am
A Muslim
I am
Somewhere in Between
I am
YOU
I am
ME
I am
Gay
I am
Straight
I am
Somewhere in Between
I am
YOU
I am
ME
I am
Liberal
I am
Conservative
I am
Independent
I am
Somewhere in Between
I am
YOU
I am
ME
I am
Woman
I am
Man
I am
Transsexual
I am
Somewhere in Between
I am
YOU
I am
ME
I am
A genius
I am
Developmentally Delayed
I am
Somewhere in Between
I am
YOU
I am
Me
Celebrate Diversity
Honor Yourself in Me

Blind

I’m blind

Blind to the world
and what is real
and what is not

Blind to your
deceit

Blind to my
defeat

I cannot see what is real
I only see what is not

Innumerable

Perennial Wisdom

Religion

Philosophy

Psychology

Macrocosm

Microcosm

King of your thoughts

Queen of my thoughts

Direct Expression

Direct Reflection

My World

Our World

Mind

and

Body

Universe at large

Subjective universe

Obscure thoughts

Change my world

Change your world

Our collective unconcious

CONNECTED

Dreams

Archetypes

Symbols

Medieval alchemy

Western hermetic

Occult tradition

Body/Mind

Mind/Body

My Body Is

Kingdom

Garden

Empire

Your Body Is

Empire

Garden

Kingdom

Our Bodies Are

ONE

Universal

*poem inspired by the above painting -- Artist of painting is unknown

Awaken

Awaken - I command thee
come into the light
No longer hide in shadows
it is time to fight
Your soul is now free
you have sight
Stop watching from the windows
and go into the night

Stop being passive
Stop being silent
Stop being victimized

Your body is strong
Your soul is strong
Your mind is strong

No more Whimpers
No more Whispers
No more Whines

Awaken - Desire
Awaken - Power
Awaken - Voice

You Are Woman
You Must Roar!!

Searching

Searching this sea 

I find but cannot see the light. 

Leaving my dream 

I fall but cannot stand to scream. 

Wanting to believe 

I look but cannot grasp the naive. 

Needing to feel 

I try but cannot touch the unreal.