Sunday, January 28, 2024
wealth for me = wealth for you
on receiving the good (or bad)
where the miracle should come from?
who delivers it,
what gets delivered?
if I am emptiness,
the void may get filled with
all the jewels in the world,
and equally,
all the compost for fertile soil.
there may be many deaths I must die
before understanding everything is good for me.
the fortune and the mis -
the beautiful and the tarnished.
any gift of any nature
teaches the dreamer to accept what is,
and my dreams are echoing teachings
hard to accept, hard to master.
family dynamics
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
another year, passed
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Rosie Coloured Glasses
I take in the view from your star window;
a field of dreams, of bamboo and blackberry,
cloth floating through the breeze in the rolling meadow.
I walk through the field to the next room;
Trees of pear, apple, plum and persimmon
morning dew awakening my feet as I glide,
humming a tune, expansive in my being.
A family of strangers greet me as I enter;
endless bounty, generosity, child-like ease,
"come in as you are", a rare feeling of knowing.
Soon the sweet bitterness of coffee finds my tongue,
bird calling for you, you approaching me,
and an embrace, a touch of my back, awakens me to begin.
Monday, August 7, 2023
The Escalator
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No thanks,
I'd rather take the stairs.
I don't mind the extra effort
knowing we'll be stronger still;
and we might stop, enjoy the view
without running frantically
backwards in place
counter to some arbitrary momentum.
I'd rather feel each step
and earn the reward -
our own volition -
choosing to ascend.
- Luke Deville, Jan 2023
Monday, February 20, 2023
from before
you can’t tell me, you’ve gotta show me
but you can’t show me without letting go
you gotta show me while holding yourself
show me you love yourself so much
that it overflows into me
that you have so much to give
not because you’re avoiding yourself
show me that you love yourself so much
that wanting me is extra, that needing me
is coming from longing, not fear of losing
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are there two kinds of need?
the need coming from love,
the need coming from fear?
how do those needs differ?
needing from love builds intimacy,
needing from fear builds resistance?
sure, you’re not doing this for me
you’re doing this for you
but how do you hold yourself
amongst all of them
all of the others
the ones that aren’t me
and if you’re working on it for you
then let’s see it in the world
let’s see you changing for the world
for yourself and the world
and let the change for me
be a byproduct, an outpouring
because it doesn’t end with me
it only begins with me
are you different if I’m not looking?
do you show up for me, not for them?
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your eagerness and persistence is both
your weakness and your strength
it is what captures my mind
and alerts my heart to distance