Why are you complaining

About people

Sucking the life out of you

When you are giving them

The straws

Stop allowing others

To drain your energy

Lower your vibration

And dull your sparkle

Be an environmentalist

For yourself

Ban straws

And stop complaining

E.A. Fussell

11.15.2020

Wrinkles

I’ve got them

Life

I’ve lived it

Sometimes well

Sometimes not so much

Time

Keeps passing

Too fast

Days are gone

Dreams fade

Energy wains

Aging

Is not

For the faint of heart

E.A. Fussell

11.13.2020

Did you ever feel like there was a big joke happening and you were missing the punchline. Somehow everyone got it, but you. That’s how I feel when watching the political circus in any country.

Did you ever wonder what would happen if everyone took their attention off of the power struggle between candidates, parties, countries, if we stopped participating in their elections, manipulations, wars? If we focused on ourselves and taking care of our immediate surroundings in a peaceful way?

Ah ha, therein lies the crux. At our core we are creatures of conflict. Peace is difficult to obtain within our own selves so how can we expect it outside of ourselves? Internal conflict occurred when our spirit decided to enter this body of flesh and experience being human. From that point a battle began between our peaceful spirit and our active mind. The mind likes to attach to people, ideas, beliefs, things. With attachment comes ego. With ego comes desire for power. With desire for power comes struggle and corruption. Struggle and corruption create a political circus in any country. And there you have it.

Is it possible for us all to live in peace? Not all, not in this life. In this life a very few will learn how to transcend their internal battle to overcome their busy mind and get to their quite core spirit to live peacefully. Some of us will experience it in glimpses or brief interludes as we continually seek it. Most will lose the battle too lost in mind and ego to find their way or even recognize that they are lost.

As for me, I will continue to wear my dunce cap as I turn and go down a path to try and find my way past my mind to the center of my core so that I can live internally peacefully as the circus rages without me.

E.A. Fussell

11.12.2020

Engagement

The catchphrase of promotion

Why

Not everyone

Wants to be an open participator

Some like to be observers

I’m learning not to be concerned

About it

If I touch even one person’s heart

Mind

Soul

If I lift even one person’s spirits

If I make even one person

Feel not so all alone

And if that one person chooses

To keep their thoughts

To themselves

I am still blessed

By blessing someone else

Engagement happens

Even when acknowledgment

Is not exchanged

Do not let promoters convince you

That you have to have

Engagement to be successful

Convince yourself

To create whatever you desire

Without concern for comments

Or even ever knowing

Whether someone was

Positively impacted

By your creation

Express your truth

Without flavoring it

Toward promotion

Engagement will happen

Even if it is unspoken

E.A. Fussell

11.10.2020

Information

So much of it

How to absorb it all

How to decipher it

True

False

Opinion

Fact

It is so difficult to determine

What the real message is

One thing is for certain

It is seldom what it appears

And is often

Deviance cloaked in purity

Pandering news

Appealing to baser instincts

Stirring up arguments

For distraction

As money shifts hands

Behind the scenes

A world more corrupt

Than it has ever been

Will it get better

Or continue spiraling askew

My bet is on the latter

Until consciousness is born anew

E.A. Fussell

11.10.2020

What would happen

If we moved our friendship

To romance

Maybe it would work

Maybe it would be a disaster

We are so wrong for each other

You keep things just in case

I release things as soon as

There is no immediate use for them

You want to spend your retirement

Working on a new business venture

I want to spend my retirement

Just being

You are a social butterfly

I am a social avoider

You own lots of things like

Property in multiple states

I own nothing except

What I can fit in my truck

(In one load)

You consider me your best friend

I don’t believe men & women

Can be best friends

They are wired too differently

How could they ever

Understand each other well enough

To be best friends

You post political expressions

I post nature pictures

Yes, I admit

There are ways in which we click

We come from the same culture

And there is comfort in that

We’ve been friends for decades

No need to explain our pasts

We both like to travel, cook, garden

Adventure appeals to us

We believe in helping others

Taking care of family

Patriotism

But still I hold out and insist

On remaining just friends

Good friends are hard to gain

And would surely be lost

If romance wasn’t a winning game

I keep thinking

Maybe it would work

Maybe it would be a disaster

E.A.Fussell

11.09.2020

Standing here

Wounded

Afraid to move forward

Stuck in the pain of the past

Not realizing it until I tried to move

“What if’s” dulling my motivation

Clouding enthusiasm

Bringing up past rejection

All the work I’ve done on myself

I thought the pain was gone

I was sure I was ready

To start a new chapter

Placing my hand on the door

Ready to open it

Fear washes over me

Engulfing me

Reminding me

Of all my failures

Sadness sets in as I watch my hand

Retract itself from the handle

Standing here

Looking at the door

Hoping I can overcome these emotions

Go ahead and open the door

Step into the unknown

Before I turn and go running

Back to the safety of the known

E.A. Fussell

11.08.2020

More

More

More

Why did you always want more

Than I gave

More deliciousness

Out of the meals cooked

More pleasure

Out of the sex engaged

More submission

Out of the love offered

I still can’t see

Why it wasn’t enough

Just me

Being me

E.A. Fussell

11.08.2020

Do you think it’s possible

To really change

The trajectory of ones life

Or do we end up where

We originally started out

Regardless of

Which path we take

Was our ultimate destination

Predetermined for us

In a foreign stratosphere

Before we ventured here

We go about this life thinking

We are influencing

Our end result

But what if

Unbeknownst to us

The ending place

Has already been

Set and locked in

And the path we choose

Only proves

What our journey will be like

As we wind our way

Unwittingly to

The predestined

Ending point

E.A. Fussell

11.08.2020