On excepting blackdog days
At times life gives you lemons. At other times you are given the big sloppy Kiss.
A wise friend of mine once told me to accept the lemons with a straight back, just as one would do with the big sloppy.
Acceptance is a slippery little sucker, but I've come to learn that once you reach acceptance in one level in life, it will spread like rings on water.
I believe there's a string of darkness in most of the existance and pre-existent.
To some its close to heart, to others its more distant.
I've seen that it in people, in animals, in my own eyes it's there.
I've felt it in the earth, in the handshakes of men and women, i've smelled it in the air.
The dark bits within us has the power to turn friends in to foes,
To transform lyrics and instruments into arrows and bows,
To make us commit actions that can destroy
lives.
When we speak ill of those we adore
When we flee the reality because we feel bored
Then the darkness is biding its time.
It subsists when a warm embrace is exchanged with a hitting hand,
When we shout at eachother instead of trying to understand,
when we blame the innocent.
It thrives on crushed dreams, broken hearts and dying imagination
It breades on us when we abuses nature and turn usage into abuse and intoxication.
When selfishness turns in to greed and petity,
when your loss is used by me to ensure that my necessities,
Are catered for.
It can conquer us, but only if we allow for it to take over our thoughts and actions.
When we let our common senses become brainwashed by medial distractions
If we let our minds work away from peace and towards destruction,
If we emphasize not the big masses, but the extremist fractions
whose instructions
Is to maintain the hierarchies.
This darkness that made ignorence a language spoken by thousands,
It created the stateborders and the disputes over lands,
Is something that few of us understands
And yet fewer can master its deceiving nature by their own hands.
Its something that should not be ignored.
But at times the darkness is a vitality,
An opening key,
An eye-opener for people like, and different from, you and me.
Something that becomes necessary
In order for us to see
the beauty of the brightness,
To feel the bless
by a friendly carress
by being surrounded by people who care,
People who dare.
And to learn new things every day.
To learn the fulfillment of positive actions, to experience the tingling feeling of striking attraction,
to live the notion of pure empathy.
No, this dark string should not be ignored.
We should embrace it.
But never let it win.
