Owl, (for Jhordan)

Oh stoic Owl, staring dubiously down

You’re convinced you’re hopelessly alone

Is that the reason for your frown? 

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You have seen so much, and are saturated now.

You want a new beginning, but see easily not how.

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I dare you to question what you think you know—

Wiggle loose the misperceptions you’ve had lodged since long ago.

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Release your death-grip on the meaning you believe in

And a new sample of infinity can be received in.

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Consider this now, just for good fun:

You are not the only misunderstood one. 

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Who cares if you’ve been wrong all along?

Delight in the fact that at this moment you are singing a new song!

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Can you love the unfathomable heartache 

That resides within your feathered chest?

Can you love yourself enough that 

You can stand to feel what needs to be addressed? 

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Can you feel at ease among the shadows of the trees? 

Marvel at how the dew drops on the spider webs 

Punctuate the darkness 

With their reflected moonlight.

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Can you accept the very shadowy figures of your solitude as partners in Divine understanding? 

And in doing so, enable them to be that?

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Stop thinking altogether now, and shut your weary eyes

Could Your Self be Divinity, as separateness disguised?

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Can you touch that place where understanding is irrelevant?

Where you’re the witness in the room, unaltered by the elephant? 

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Where things of a quantifiable nature dissolve into infinite potential?

Where you know who you really are, that which is essential?

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Can you see your rippling reflection on the lake, no less real than your echoing silence?

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Yet if your eyes were not here to see that reflection, it would not exist…

And still you let its perceived control over you persist?

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See that your choice to believe in anything

Is You at work on Your Divine Creation.

You, my friend, are a sculptor of reality.

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It is no less divine if done unconsciously and with resistance.

(The divine savors its experiential ride regardless… )

But you can learn to love your self, with great courage and persistence. 

Caressing all experiences, and yourself as you create them.

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Create. Choose to believe You Are Seen

As the Powerful Mysterious Creation that You Are.

Glide in the truth of the wind in between

Reality from your perspective and that seen from a star.