Just Keep

“You are but a child, never forget that. You move to the rhythm of love. Your eyes are wide open to the wonder to be had all around you. You live in it, breathe it. You are a student of life and of death, a patient of time, and a marauder of the night. When you rise, the world rises with you. When you fall, the whole world is there to lift you up, and to cry your tears for you. Know that you are never alone. You shine with life and warm the hearts of all. Every eye is on you, brave one. You are one of the lucky ones and it is you who have taken the greatest risk of all. Coming here, continuing to be here, now, you fight the ultimate battle. You’re truly special, and for you to even breathe and think and feel it takes all you have, I know. It is hard to hold yourself together, to lean on your own shoulder. Just keep.”

The Quiet, Quiet Heart

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You tear me apart, you quiet, quiet heart

Even now I try to capure your voice but my own thoughts are too loud for me to hear you

You soft, soft thing, a vulnerable one indeed

You don't know pain, you don't know dispair, all you know is life

You hold its value above all, for it is all you are

Pure, and true only to yourself, just like the others

But you know who you are and they do not

They know who you are but they do not

Speak to me, quiet, gentle heart I only seek your company

For I too have a quiet, quiet heart, that beats loudly in my ears

But my heart is with them, and therefore cannot be without them

I quiet the mind, I sleep in my dark cave with one eye open, just to stay safe

I know your plaight dear sweet heart, not a one can touch you without being hurt

There too we are the same

But there is much to you to be discovered, and much more still to us

Alone neither would make it, but together we cannot exist,

For you dear heart are still too soft, and me and mine too insensitive

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Patrick Dejour II

My Dream

I woke up and all was normal. The illusion I had grown attached to had faded and I was back inside my physical body. I felt well rested, yet still dreamy. I felt I was floating on a cloud. My day progressed. I followed plans, not of my own design. I was working every day, toward a life that wasn't MINE. It wasn't what I wanted. What I really wanted seemed to fade every morning in the sunlight. When my consciousness returned so did my dull reality. My dreams where the musings of my soul. Not the alien body that controls me. When he unplugged at the end of the day. I lost his consciousness, he who had control of my body. Whose life I was being forced to live . Mine was left alone to contemplate. I dream of a way to get rid of him for good, without killing myself in the process. Could I hone my consciousness to one day communicate with him. Instead of being forced into the silent sub-conscious until I was released at the end of the day when he unplugged. He would return to his alien world. The darkness beyond my peripheral vision. And I would be left to cry. Forever prisoned in my own life.

                           

A message from a friend...

As little babies we come into this world just wanting to be safe, happy, and loved. We don't know why or how we're here but we learn that sharing and caring feel good so we are compelled to do so. We don't know who or what to trust, believe in, or put our faith in, but life keeps us in line. As we grow up we lose all of those things that made us a child but the need to feel loved and love others is what stays the same. The truth is that no one knows what this crazy thing called life is all about but we just go along with it until it gets so bad that our inner child cries out to us. We know that the people on TV don't matter, what we buy doesn't matter, what we do doesn't matter--we matter. But somehow we lose sight of it because of the show we see before our eyes each day. Well I'm here to say that you all have infinite love within your hearts and that when you can learn who you are at the deepest level, you will find that what you've been searching for has been inside of you all along. You have the power to love yourselves free of the lies and illusions to see the true beauty of all life. When you know yourself you know that everyhing that has ever happened was because of love, either abundance of it, or need of it. When you realize this you can learn to love everyone, and most importantly, share your light with everyone you meet. Blessings my beautiful brothers and sisters, I will be waiting for you to find your inner light and when you do, we shall bask in its warmth and radiance together...

Even as an Orange by Patrick Dejour II

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We are all oranges from the same tree

And we all must die or be eaten

But we leave ourselves behind

Maybe nurturing someone else

Something greater than ourselves

For that we can be thankful

The tree that gave us life will be happy

For that was our true purpose

And the seeds for new life have been planted

For we carried them inside us

We are not separate from the tree that gave us life

We are distinct

We are not the tree but we are a part of the tree

The tree made us as part of itself and knows us as such

We carry the memory of the tree with us

We carry the tree with us

And the same tree can know new life forever

By making itself anew

Over and over

Never actually ever becoming separate

Always being a tree

Even as a seed

Even as an orange

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*photo courtesy Andrew62 on flickr.com