Resonance

Reality itself is made more palpable when we are in proximity

A word, a glance, a gesture, the source and fullness of intimacy

The paradoxical fake-ness of buzzing surroundings more apparent

The hurried commotion of hollow lives lay bare, sore, transparent

But the importance of every breath taken couldn’t be more deeply felt

Comfortably anxious in the shaken chaos and still calmness we dwelt

We resonate like instruments making powerful music in unison

Our own sympathetic contributions to a greater co-transformation

Evolving emotions match the messy melody at every moment

An oversight here, a misstep there, it’s all over in an instant

Heartbeats keep the time

Heartbreaks track the distance

With strings struck and frayed we are resilient

As things discarded and betrayed we are defiant  

Holding out it seems to find that one true sound

Fearful yet forging on for a safe common ground

Our sense of community mixed with that of autonomy

Our defense of life continuity fixed through individuality

Great healers know from the inside the most punishing of pains

It’s how they bring true healing, subduing wildfires with delicate rains

Great warriors too know by experience the most terrible losses and defeat

It’s what they draw upon for the next charge and steels them against retreat

The enemy often is at once both without and within

We fight on two great fronts the inner and outer twin

But we must prevail the stakes are too great not to

Though we fail, we rally, and still we push through

The dark times ahead cannot for long be concealed

But within us each is wild light that does not yield

For the sake of lights not yet lit and others now dim

We tame the wanton & reckless abuse, greed & whim

Those with great vision sometimes fail to see their flaws

Reduced by faltering decision, flailing, not taking pause

We endure things far too rough to have such soft skins

Yet the source of what we need to thrive radiates within

-Brandon Fenton 2014