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He said<\/strong>
\nShe said<\/strong>
\nYou seem full of yourself<\/strong>
\nOr full of something<\/strong>
\nAs I would<\/strong>
\nDecidedly be<\/strong>
\nRather mistaken<\/strong>
\nAs too much for sum<\/strong>
\nThan sow scarcely perceived<\/strong>
\nIn convenient lacking<\/strong>
\nA peace meal<\/strong>
\nLeaving hungry<\/strong>
\nOr crocodile tears<\/strong>
\nWithout hankering<\/strong>
\nPutting oneself out<\/strong>
\nWith friendly fire<\/strong>
\nAnd faux alike<\/strong>
\nSew much<\/strong>
\nWee must take in<\/strong>
\nThe unconsuming whole<\/strong>
\nHemmed in<\/strong>
\nThe bind leading the bind<\/strong>
\nFor if we were to a peer<\/strong>
\nAs God sees us<\/strong>
\nAs children sew sew proud<\/strong>
\nWe’d break out<\/strong>
\nIn stitches<\/strong>
\nRather than<\/strong>
\nGo bust<\/strong>
\nAt the seems<\/strong>
\nMaking awe<\/strong>
\nThe deference<\/strong>
\nIn the whirled<\/strong><\/p>\n

This poem is about living largely into the grandiosity and wonder in which our souls are made.\u00a0 I have been accused on occasion of being full of myself.\u00a0 I just see this as being me — albeit really me!\u00a0 I see one of the major forms of social control in modern, so-call civilization as keeping people small.\u00a0 This oftentimes passes for humility.\u00a0 I suspect that as many times as not, the offense people commit against God and their nature is living much smaller than for which they were designed. \u00a0 I suspect that as many times as not, when someone expects someone else to stay “in their place,” it is less out of a desire for high morality than maintaining a predictable and unintimidating (also read uninspiring) environment that conveniently benefits their own status quo.\u00a0 Fully alive human beings are going to have an overflowing and even overwhelming quality that can be intimidating to those trying to hang onto a tightly ordered, small piece of real estate.\u00a0 Well, the real state of being fully human involves a perpetual freshness and a range of freedom that should be challenging and hopefully inspiring to others.\u00a0 Such newness incarnated in the world reveals the irrepressibly of hope, curiosity, playfulness, and creativity.\u00a0 Such free range humans inescapably reflect a certain lightheartedness in the face of seemingly serious social boundaries, recognizing the often arbitrary and inhumane nature of substituting abstract rules for face-to-face human relationship.\u00a0 Any dimension of newness present in humans can serve as a reminder and invitation for a fresh look into the soul of another.\u00a0 Such fresh looking can help us step out of the constricting algorithms of triangulating rules and compounding conventional wisdom into a jazzy rhythm that can only be experienced by playing with a band of eccentric souls.\u00a0 Such playing can cure the oh so lame and the hardening of the attitudes.\u00a0 When the overwhelming awesomeness of life bumps into the brick walls and lines in the sand of any given culture, that culture better get ready to change as purveyors of life dance over purported lines and occasionally take time out to break down a brick wall.\u00a0 Giving deference to awe invites a certain boldness in this whirled of ours.\u00a0 And if you should find hurt in this world, may you also find a way to break out of your stitches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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