ATTACHMENT

Attachment is a fount of pain.

POKER

POKER

The future, unborn
Promises pain and pleasure
We shuffle and deal

TOO EASY

Without a degree of discomfort how should we ever be motivated to seek to progress?

CHALLENGE

Challenge is part of a healthy life style.

THE ROUGH

Sometimes “going with the flow” involves navigating the rapids.

SOMEONE SPECIAL

SOMEONE SPECIAL

If we are meant to be
Of use to each other
Then there will be pain
Amid the dissolving

WRIGGLY

WRIGGLY

Is it not naïve
To expect a learning curve
To be a straight line?

PAINFULLY AWARE

PAINFULLY AWARE

Eyes peeled to the raw
Alert in the snow-blind world
Of a waking dream

PAIN

PAIN

“Why is it so hard for some to show and others to see?”

Perhaps it is the fear of pain.

It is widely believed that the opposite of love is hatred, but closer examination reveals that the true opposite of Love is Fear; hatred always has its roots in Fear.

Fear makes us close up and deny; Love invites us to open and share.

Perhaps it is only when we readmit Love that the healing of the pain can begin.

THE INSCRUTABLE GIFTS OF BEING

THE INSCRUTABLE GIFTS OF BEING

Endless, these presents
Time – generous to a fault
Yet never enough