Today's Read - What Are We Doing Here?

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Poet H.T. Manogue invites us all to "live an ordinary life in a Non-Ordinary Way" in his book Short Sleeves - A Book for Friends. Seeking to unite the essence of this world and the next as it unfolds before us, his poems bring thoughts of love and friendship from both worlds together, within the confines of linear time and space. Short Sleeves is available in bookstores, and online here.

Today's Read is a poem from the book. Enjoy...



What Are We Doing Here

That Question Rings Out Like An Alarm Clock
From Hell
When We Look At Ourselves In The Middle East
Yes That’ Us We See Daily
Being The Bombed And Bomber On The Nightly News In The Papers
And In Our Hearts
It Is In Our Experience Our Now
Of Course The Faces Are Different And The Names
Don’t Match Ours And Perhaps Their Religions Are Not Ours
But There We Are Killing Each Other And Complacently Watching
Us Destroy Ourselves
In The Name Of God Belief And Superiority
We Know It’s True
What You Believe You Create Then Experience
And Then Become
Our Collective Belief For Centuries Has Been That There Could Not Be Peace In This Part Of Our World
That This Was Such A Sacred Area That It Must Not Be Shared
It Became Our Battle Ground To Prove God’s Point
And Now As We See This Destruction Of Life We Are Asking Ourselves What Was That Point
Was It That He Chooses To See Us Suffer In The Pain Of War
Is The Point To Begin To End Life As We Know It
Because We Fail To Love Him In A Certain Way
Or Call Him By Names Other Than His Favorite Name
The God That We Know But Have Forgotten
Does Not Believe Or Create In That Way
All We Have To Do Is Look And Feel And Touch What
Surrounds Us
To See That The Universe Nature And Humanity
Are Connected In A Web Of Love
Spun By The Vessel Of Love
It Seems We Want To Break That Web
We Want To Be The Black Widow Of Life
Resting In Our Own Pots Of Ego
Lost And Fearful


As I Watch Myself Killing Me
I Now See The Point
I Realize My Belief About Who I Am And What I Am
Is Creating This Experience And I Have Become
What I See
I See
Hatred Anger Judgment
And Most Of All Feel The Loneliness
That Sits In My Heart
A Loneliness To Reconnect With Myself
To Connect To That Web Of Love That Is Me
That Feeling Of Oneness With All Life
For When I Drop All The Symbolic Names I Call Others
I Realize That We Are All Life First
Spirits Traveling On The Path Of Discovery And Remembering
Journeymen In Love
All From The Same Source
All The Same Yet Diverse
Moving Through Time To Awaken And Reconnect To
Ourselves And Then To Share Our Connection In Gratitude

Now Is My Time To Change My Beliefs
I Believe We Can Share Every Inch of Earth in Harmony With All Life
I Respect The Beliefs Of Others
In Understanding The Contrasts Of Beliefs
I Expand And Experience A Greater Version Of Myself
In This Moment In Me I Believe I Can Be The Difference
That Changes My Creations
So That I Experience God
As He Experiences Me
In Peace Joy Love And Abundance
In That Now Awareness
I See
That There Is No Death No Killing
No Separation No Loneliness
Only The Birth Of Forgiveness
And Unity
The Unity
I Have Been Searching For Everywhere
Except In Myself


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