In the Hush

In the Hush
 
The power of being positive…
Is that what it takes to make it in this world?
Isn’t that just for souls that have not been battered?
What about the minds that can’t be unfurled?
What about the hues of blues and greens swirled
Around my eyes… never completely healing
Before the new ones gush?
 
I reach for things that are positive…
Only to have my arm beaten down and broken
Or my feet knocked out from beneath my weary body
Just because of words that were not spoken
Behind those wooden doors that can’t be opened
Lest the secrets find their way into the light
Before the next one lingers in the hush…
 
I’ve watched them in the videos and on the stage
Walking briskly, speaking crisply, to a crowd of thousands
Smiling as if they know something that others do not
Convincing them all from the cities, across the low land
To remove their buried heads from beneath the sand
While those doing the convincing
Are the ones who wear the pockets
Jingling with the coins
Flaunting all their cards of royal flush…
 
I think positive every day…
Every morning that I wake up
Each time I am able to get up from the bed
And walk to the coffee pot
To pour my first cup of coronary resuscitation…
Knowing that my life is not an aberration
And that I can form just one single thought inside my head…
Then… I know that I am not dead
And the certitude abounds to know
Of life…
And of love…
And that I have the reasoning to know
Of their deepening beauty…
Evincing the realization that my life is plush
 
I cannot skip across a stage and speak of
My enlightenment… or my positive attitude…
The pockets on my faded overalls certainly do not jingle…
But my heart runneth over with gratitude…
For in theory… I should no longer exist within my humanness…
Yet… here I am…
Before the window facing the dawn…
My clear glass coffee cup etched with dragonflies
And the three blades of Timothy…
Filled beyond my expectations
As I sit and await the crimson…
Tranquillized by hope…
Drifting through the realms
Like a rope in the open sea…
While I linger in the hush…
 
 
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What do you find when you linger in the hush?
 
Michael33