RELEASING CHILDHOOD’S NIGHTMARES

© 2010 Howard McQueen

We constantly pave over our experience with life,

forgetting that we are merely the parchment,

the visible sacrament for the invisible omnipresence,

that breathes and shines through us.

We are connected,

yea, super-saturated

in the simple, yet profound divine-ness,

the utterly fantastical-ness,

when we open to the here and now.

Once, I was lost

in the delusion,

the pain wrought by the falseness

held in separation.

I see and appreciate this now

as the small me holding on to personal discomfort;

the childhood’s pain obsessed over,

energizing my personal delusion,

paying forward our collective nightmare.

I give all this up

to honor the in-being

within me

within you

within all of us.

This is what I am.