street roots
Aug. 31, 2012
The difference between silence and stillness
(Thanks to Gale Ireland for taking the time to show me)
By j.mccurdy
Here in the darkness it’s perfectly clear
That there is as much difference
Between silence and stillness
As there is
Between fear and faith
This is the space in time
This is the harrowing place
That hones our backbone’s strength,
Forces us to recognize
Our own place in the space of things
Its only the places in between
That house the grey
That clouds vision
Till vision goes still
More Little Riddles
By Chase Frinein
Its where fear loses its power to paralyze
And faith gives birth to itself
And slowly, gently, irrevocably
Pulls us out into the light
Of stillness
It’s here
In the in between
Where pain becomes our infinite gift
It’s our own suffering
That causes the shift
And allows the birthing pangs to begin
Just like our birth
It’s where began and begin again
Make peace with each other
So that the mother
Can pulse through us
And out again
Without distraction
It’s where we connect
It’s here
In the in between
That forces us to examine
That blind space
Where nothing is clear
And nothing makes sense
Great Release, the pow-wow at sundown
event of a lifetime, the ultimate rundown.
Time when time is no more on the clock
beginning of the end, the final shock.
The
The
The
The
king of the moment, the apex of nothing
cle-e-ear awareness, the bliss & the suff’ring.
thrillingest threshold, a step in the dance
gift & the curse, the hope & the chance.
The scarlet of bloomers, the greatest of feelings
When one & one is one, the heart’s grand ceiling.
Triumphal intoxication, breath to the soul
The brother of gravity, so to speak, from of old.
We lose the need to struggle
We learn to be
We relearn
Who it is we really are
Without pretense, without ego
Without submission, surrender or conceit
»
In this space
We get to see our own side
To real life lessons
Where our own part in things live
The
The
The
The
These are some riddles and there’s more sure to come
Each quatrain’s a question-to puzzle up some!
These top three are general; there’ll be more written soon
So for more, to your local- Street Roots vendor, stay attunded!
(1. theaD 2. efiL 3. evoL)
And no one ever again
Gets to claim
Our truth
When the shift
Into breathing happens
Silence loses it lure
And stillness
Becomes as necessary as our breath
It’s here in the blind spot
It’s in the grey, muddled toxicity
That we realize we put ourselves where we are
And therefore we can take us back out
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