COMPARISONS COLLAPSING

© 2009 Howard McQueen

I was visiting with a friend at her house recently and she was reuniting with a neighbor again, one that had been good friends back when their kids were growing up and before my friend experienced her shattering divorce.

After the three of us had a lovely dinner her neighbor left and I mentioned that her neighbor had a certain “youthfulness” that was refreshing.

My friend considered this for a moment and then said “Well the past few years have been kinda hard and taken a toll on me …”.

Comparison | Judgment
Someone is depreciated, someone elevated -
always ending in an acute sense of separation.
We can be so callus and brutal in our relationship with ourself.
We have had so much training, conditioning and practice.

Stand tall and alone,
greeting each and all in deep bow.
Inseparable are we all,
practicing devotion to Self.
Out of me and thee,
there is collapse into We,
then collapse again into One,
the sum of our Being.


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