MANUFACTURING LOSTNESS

© 2009 Howard McQueen

We have become so convinced that
something real has been lost
that we manufacture experience and personas
to live in our lostness.

Doubt, cynicism and with the world crying out
and rewarding oh-so-much-more inauthenticity,
We cover our our heart and
obscure our primal identity.

This is a powerful, constant obsession,
this cultural chorus of brutality,
veiled with confusion.

Feeling into this, becoming intimate with this mental disease,
seeing it, identifying it, naming it -
the hardened shell softens and cracks -
debris comes to the surface.
No need to shield yourself now.
Freedom to cleanup begins
New radical potential emerges
and identity is Rediscovered.

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