Street Roots •
Dec. 2-8, 2016
Page 13
Poetry
Shocked and Stopped Inspiring Truth
Serenity
by Milton Stillwater
by Sam Al-Jondi
Stopping this in some way
We were wound up into the nets
of objects not of our choosing.
Changing these things
we can become a real study in evolution.
Is there a turtle found lumbering
lazily among our means?
Opening we may reverse ourselves.
Searching not for an object but where
our sense of contact has its origin.
This place bound with freedom,
feeling, libido, free will and one consciousness.
What are the origins of our freedom?
What are the origins of our seed?
This is a difficulty for dragon lore
Wanting bells that refer only to
Dragon’s hoard.
Realizing unconscious pleasures or
realizing unconscious pressures?
As the reader can see in truth’s continuity
Pressures excruciating!
Donald! Donald! Donald! Donald!
So sensitive we were afraid
Oh God what have we done?
If I could be
What life demands of me
If I could see you
The way you see me
Do you think that would lead us to be happy?
On a cold day
Please show me the way
Don’t learn to hate
But with good thoughts have yourself
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