02.28.24
leap year’s spirit…
leap year’s spirit…
four more trips around the sun…
plus one extra day in worldly time…
but the dawning-on beyond its clock…
bears a higher presence that’s here to find…
outside the boundaries of earthly workings…
where minutes and hours can’t breathe on their own…
and landscapes won’t stretch any measuring tape…
eternity’s realm accommodates mankind’s small home…
like a ship on a sea that will shape its own destiny…
with captains and quarters and supply orders to save…
it can brace itself well enough to stay afloat for a while…
but to travel somewhere it’ll sail water and waves…
or like a human who roams through its ties to infinity…
or a mortal who’s searching for more from this life…
there’s a force to reach out to and tap into and meet…
and it’s here and it’s free and brings love so alive!…
in ways full of innocence it awakens our beings…
a consciousness far greater than anything self-made…
totally loving and truthful and kind and aware…
it carries the wholesomeness that divinity relays…
it’s a godsend that lives alongside our own mundane modes…
its strong bridges within us linking one to the other…
their crossings lay ready for distinct states of being…
based on chance and fate’s exchanges and what substances life offers…
prayer strengthens our kinship with the almighty’s presence…
an invitation to embrace through each heart… mind and soul…
that attachment engages when clear sincerity prevails…
and opens up to convey and support and console…
flashes of insight broaden earthling compassion…
when we realize our own humanness covers all others too…
then status and skin tint and creed difference won’t mean much…
they’re small manmade snapshots that don’t deserve fuller views…
gifts from above bestowed upon us show their virtue…
they’re those qualities we ourselves can’t merit any credit for…
complete love and truth and such traits that accompany it…
inspire faithful devotion and respect to stride forth…
a bleak matter might later spark a blessing in disguise…
heartbreak may lead to truth’s lovingful grasp…
peaceful quiet could ease a head’s gridlock of chatter…
and flares of wisdom can stir some awareness that lasts…….
‘so a young man first met with a new group of friends…
he hoped that his looks wouldn’t leave a few feeling tense…
considering the skin he grew up in didn’t match their same tones…
but that brotherhood knew better and welcomed every shade known!’…
‘new public servants signed in to start work…
they pledged to be fair for each region they served…
a deceitful official tried to show them the ropes…
“no!”… cried good morals… “your pursuits kill our hope!”‘…
‘when a loud-mouthed bully tried to hurt a girl’s self-esteem…
a passer-by’s enlightenment stepped up and in-between…
“i used to be like you”… he claimed… “’til i finally came to see…
that lowdown doings just go to prove how weak cheap strength can be!”‘…
‘solid principles stood up amid most district men…
“we can’t support your foul plan!”… they said…
“its scheme gives greedy businesses more loopholes and gains!…
now our ethics won’t let rich men sell the poor folks high-priced pain!”‘…
‘the school president’s integrity quickly retorted…
“statistics are different than these you reported!…
you strive to control our kids’ books and their minds!…
but teaching shouldn’t let learnedness end up to be denied!”‘…
‘a thoughtful man wondered about the future ahead…
and what would happen when his body dropped dead…
’til one day an experience arose out of nowhere…
encountering pure love and truth for his soul beyond here!’…….
we’re blessed the almighty is of such love and truth!…
that abides in this world where our souls still reside…
sacred features emerge to encourage our journeys…
“thank you so much for being!… our light!… and our guide!”…
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