How do you know a thing that is changing, moving, flowing, arriving and departing all at once?
In the flux of impermanent creation floating realms of construction and destruction coexist
The twins of duality cannot abide without each other
Death over and over gives way to life
Second by second spiralling into a new moment, only to be lost forever in the next
Spilling out in waves sucked back into oceans of unending possibilities
Who is this flesh covered soul, colored in hues of passion and grief, anger and joy?
What is it to know in the expanse of the infinite?
"Who" is different every passing second
Every breath is to make a decision about creation, all the while building on a moveable foundation
How to bend flame, to see wind, to walk on water, to train a cat...
To know oneself is to greet the master of surrender; yielding and unyielding forces collide 
Watching becomes action as awareness takes shape and form, only to start again 
Circling an ever wider universe the canvas meets with a vast array of explosions, no two alike
Days and age and seconds and years,
time is not even a constant, only a fleeting tool of imperfect frequency 
A self portrait exists only in the yesterday
Soul aperture peaking through with a glimmer of something much bigger than knowing can presume
-Rae 

​Chew them up and swallow 
Whole swarms draw their lines
In the sand live the dreaded beasts of the unknown 
Sickly words turn yellow
Belly full of ache in dim caverns
Crumble beneath heavy lies flailing in the shallows 
Throwing hatred like pie 
Chart the unknown course of action
Plan in adherence to faith in fear
Snakes manipulate tongues
Forked roads that slip sideways downhill
Slope right on venom soaked gardens of earth
Damp thoughts sprayed 
Down all equal deeds as indoctrination
Nation stands slumped over in acute unconsciousness
Derived from hard stone
Caves of unschooled fish troll the dark
Hearts closed shut like the boarders of quarantined houses
Filled with old whoa
Horse whipped into fatal gallop
Pull up just as the Devil looked in the mirror and saw us
#NowWakeUp

Eyes shine bright
Tears tearing through warm flesh
Many bones quaking with fresh hells

Ivory towers tarnished orange
Walls made of fear in mind and heart
Deceiving through guise of allegiant safety

Nothing compares, no thing
To home we pledge, though yearn
As freedom spreads her wings to call us forth

All rise with promises anew 
Weep with home sickness juxtaposed
Gratitude wells with possibilities, derision abides

Hope stays short sighted
Drive the grind as always lean to work
Diligent beyond the scope of skin and privilege

Enough is bondage
Brains see deeper pits and higher walls
With every collected penny scarcity rises and floats

Bondage free
Though fetter may rankle and pester 
Through the impossible voices freedom rings

Stronger en masse
Even inside always outside, always us
We are you are me are them are mirrored and tarnished

Hate claims duty
Shadow darkest at noon the sun shines
Love rises, takes her place amongst broken hearts

Welcome to the hearth
Belonging severs separation dissolving division
Blessed are the oppressed, for theirs is a place called Home 

-RAE