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For Every Sunlit Day a Ravaging Storm

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    For Every Sunlit Day a Ravaging Storm

    By eliseonlife | Conscious Living, Judgment, Love, Pain & Suffering, Purpose in Life | Comments are Closed | 24 June, 2013 | 0

    Note from Elise:  Occasionally I invite guests to post their thoughts for you. Today’s guest is poet Darius Gottlieb. I think you’ll enjoy his unique voice and ideas. At the end of the post, you can read a brief bio about him. Enjoy!

    Darius Gottlieb

    For Every Sunlit Day a Ravaging Storm

    Nearly everyone has a dark room in need of light
    Where the hardened collagen of scars and wounds
    Is hidden from polite company in the auxiliaries of day 


    And I would be lying 
    To fail to admit to grief 
    Which is buried in pits of despair
    Where demons of my discontent 
    Could too readily be unleashed 


    Terrorizing girl scouts with their cookies
    And causing matronly mothers to blurt,
    “Did no one advise that man how to appear in public?” 


    Not everyone wants to see your appendix scar
    Or listen to your recount of flaccid stupidities
    When you left judgment in ashes of your hash pipe
    Or the deflated foam of too many beer bottles

    And while some treat attorneys
    As plastic surgeons for ill-gotten experience 

    There is, in truth, no concealer for outrageous folly
    Which has injured others even when adrenalin
    Was shooting through the cosmos of your veins 

    That blood on the doorknob may well be yours
    That failure to be accountable to decent conscience
    That refusal to see worth in your own esteem
    That callousness when seeking advantage over strangers 

    What isn’t well known concerns the sharpened teeth
    Of judgment angels, with laser-like eyes
    Who rip and tear apart pretenses of your every rationalization

     I cannot answer why God isn’t more soft and fuzzy
    Like fabric softener
    Save to remind you that Creation has never lacked bite
    And that for every rainbow is a rampaging tornado,
    For every sunlit day a ravaging storm 

    Given that it isn’t only global warming heating up:
    The stakes are higher, the penalties
    For refusing to awaken more dire
    When too many of us rightfully hide rooms of darkness
    Yet fail to invite the light to be a Christ-like balm to our wounds 

    I call to you now, in this deceptively cheery morning
    To attend to that which is unsettled in the matrix of your soul,
    To look with an unwavering, steely eye
    Upon the gravity of your wounds 

    Then take the monsters of your pain and suffering
    Out of their cages
    For a proper pedicure, manicure and shampoo 

    Tie a pink ribbon amid their poodle-like hair
    Take your most cringe-worthy fear for a walk
    Keeping a tight leash about your once cooped-up pet  

    And when people remark, as they will,
    “What a handsome beast! Is he yours?” — You can truthfully reply 

    “Yes. He is mine, although there was once a time
    Not that long ago, when I was his.” 

    There has never been a better vortex
    Than this Summer Solstice to emancipate your demons
    With a little light and fresh air
    To send them now and forever to charm school 

    So that when you appear before your Lord
    Astonished and chagrined 
    That you’d doubted the munificence of eternity 

    You will realize in the golden flash of a single heartbeat
    That this, your time on Earth, was your secret lover 

    To liberate your immortal Soul from the tightened grip of experience
    And become perfected in astonishment  

    To the angelic infinity which has so patiently awaited
    For your inevitable return.

    © Darius Gottlieb           www.PoetPhotos.com          Summer Solstice, 2013

     

    Darius Gottlieb - Poet and Cellist

    In the past two years, Darius has written four books of riveting poetry which are featured on his website, www.PoetPhotos.com …. a site which highlights accomplishments from his careers as a photographer, a cellist and a poet. All of his four poetry books have received enormous praise, and are available for sale.

    The most successful of his four books, “Love Poems and Other Elixirs” is being printed later this year by GMTA Publishing, a vital upstart company based in North Carolina.

    Although it’s still a work in progress, PoetPhotos.com features six galleries of his original photographic work and over 350 art photos, taken over a thirty-year period. Most are in color and all are accessible and even passionate, the most popular being those of angels and of Buddha’s.

    “For Every Sunlit Day a Ravaging Storm” is a poem indicative of the quality of Darius’ writing.

    To reach Gottlieb and be placed on his poetry list, write to him at CelloHeart@gmail.com.

     

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