BEING HUMAN

When life is desperate

We create a negative-

Capability within us.

When we can’t find

A way out or into life.

At this time of need we

All need a spiritual centre.

We dig deep to find a dharma

Or god that ejects us from

Despair and takes us to that

Higher ground where we

Can settle and almost be free.

THE INTERIOR CASTLE

After Rilke

This is my un-adopted castle

The world exists within me.

The external slowed in motion

Where once stood a house

A family, a Mother, Father

And a god now images taken

Their place.  

To flow through

Imagination from the well of

Life, time transmits energy.

We no longer worship in temples

The energy omits an old way

Where we can be secretly saved.

I am the king of this un-adopted

Castle, this is an expression from

Within that needed pillars, statues

And a throne but I’ve got a wheel-

Chair a brain and a left hand, home.