Rambling Thursday
I'm being overwhelmed today and yesterday by the profoundly dull darkness of too many people. We cannot afford to walk around with blinders hanging over our faces, covering our natures, closing off sight, limiting others to be labeled as gay or jewish or christ-lovers or barbies and kens.
I'm blind in ways, being full of the past and future burnings life will bring, but on the last line, it all comes down to a kiss. When you see that which you adore and then kiss, that connection gives a sight that overcomes all the darkness, a sight blind with love and knowledge of the infinite in your beloved. One cannot ever go back into judgment and exclusion after a true kiss.
That for me is the truth of it, and I've said that twenty times in the last few days. How can someone exclude anyone from the rights of marriage, from the love of God, from the safety of peace, after they say they have kissed with a profound love's intent? How can anyone who has held a child, a lover, a pup, a cross, a leaf, or a hand ever feel so cut away from the texture of acceptance and inclusion?
There is a bitterness afoot that matches the greed of self-righteousness that is going to be our global undoing. When someone near me speaks in that bitter sound of judgment, I'm now asking them what or who do they love? And when they tell me, I smile and say, then let others have that feeling also, because it's the only gift we can as humans give to each other.
I hope everyone can find thousands of the bits life can offer for love. I do actually pray that the kiss upon lips, or upon the air, or whatever else the beloved is formed from, will strike all those lost in a darkness of bigotry and exclusion with a blinding new sight. It's a cosmic ocean we live within.
I'm blind in ways, being full of the past and future burnings life will bring, but on the last line, it all comes down to a kiss. When you see that which you adore and then kiss, that connection gives a sight that overcomes all the darkness, a sight blind with love and knowledge of the infinite in your beloved. One cannot ever go back into judgment and exclusion after a true kiss.
That for me is the truth of it, and I've said that twenty times in the last few days. How can someone exclude anyone from the rights of marriage, from the love of God, from the safety of peace, after they say they have kissed with a profound love's intent? How can anyone who has held a child, a lover, a pup, a cross, a leaf, or a hand ever feel so cut away from the texture of acceptance and inclusion?
There is a bitterness afoot that matches the greed of self-righteousness that is going to be our global undoing. When someone near me speaks in that bitter sound of judgment, I'm now asking them what or who do they love? And when they tell me, I smile and say, then let others have that feeling also, because it's the only gift we can as humans give to each other.
I hope everyone can find thousands of the bits life can offer for love. I do actually pray that the kiss upon lips, or upon the air, or whatever else the beloved is formed from, will strike all those lost in a darkness of bigotry and exclusion with a blinding new sight. It's a cosmic ocean we live within.