Wednesday, March 1, 2017

New Poem: "Eat, Pray, and Love Some More"

Eat, Pray, and Love Some More

Such longing, such effort, such accomplishment,
one adventure after another, always striving
for new becoming, and happiness came
when she dared to walk away from
the life she had created, —

An exotic flavor, a new life and new beginning,
and love flowed from the horn of limitless
plenty, but more of the same bred ennui
and she walked away again to satisfy
her deepest longing, —

Onward outward forward, looking, looking,
looking for the magic elixir of her life’s meaning,
purpose-driven to find a way through the eye
of the needle—heavenly kingdom of pure bliss,
desireless desire, her key to freedom, —

And destiny came calling once more, as life is wont
to do: hair intervention with a strange new creature,
lesbian hair dresser, gifted musician, former addict
and dispossessed, a long way from safety and
security; and she fell in love again with
an erotic new flavor, —

On the edge once more, staring into the abyss
of heavenly bliss, all of her instincts screaming
NO! to her feverish longing, but too fat to squeeze
through the eye of the needle she now waits in
spiritual dis-ease for the merciful law of life
to call again to save her from herself.



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