Define Yourself (if you can)

DUCTWORK

Prince - Movie clip (from purple rain)

In Due Time

~And the rose unfolds in due time~ 

Have you noticed how long it takes to get to know something of yourself?  You work tirelessly trying to figure something out about why you did this but didn't do that.  Then, a light bulb turns on.   You're now experiencing an awareness of self you never had before.  You never gave your life a second thought to the hows and why or how beautiful and intricately complex it is but trudged through life thinking of yourself as a thin sheet of veneer or a cardboard cutout.  Only one layer of existence.  You would always react this way but not that way.  But now you just learned there's a lot more to you than you thought.  In fact you just tapped into something that showed you that there are many different levels of consciousness.  Human beings are comprised of layers.  We find accessing our inner selves hard to impossible.  In order to achieve this we must first have the desire to do so and then work toward it.  Meditation, prayer, good counsel and yes, life experiences, whether good or bad will help us along this personal journey of discovery.  The first level of consciousness we will experience is   Level 1, Awareness.  (You must first be aware of something before you can make contact with it) Then comes Level 2, Contact.  Finally, Level 3, Understanding.  This process of learning to know oneself could take several years to a lifetime.  We may work hard toward this goal but are unsure if we'll even make it.  Then when all hope is lost the universe steps in and rewards us with exactly what we desired to know.  How many layers do we have?  I don't know but based on my own personal experience, there are many.    Of course we all have free will in which we can work toward this level of understanding or don't care to.  But what a human tragedy, what a terrible waste of a human being that it exists only to exist and knows nothing else.   
     ~ Nightshade  

Deceived

I’m going to my happy place

It’s calling me right now

I’m going to my happy place

Where I can go and plan my escape

The world is convulsing

Turning upside down

It’s afoul with hate and fear

A place of dread

In fear we tread

Children tortured

Babies butchered

Innocents slaughtered

The rest of us monitored

What kind of place is this?

I keep preaching hope and love

I’ve been deceived

It’s hate and greed

And it fits just like a glove

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Bird on a Wire

I am folding in on myself,

    drawing all four corners over me

Like a heavy blanket

I have become numb to the world

     of wishes and desires

They hold no meaning, anymore

They're all lies and empty gestures anyway

We’re all in a numbed and false dream state

Down here

Standing like good little soldiers,

All in a row

We believe in hope but are rewarded with false  promises

We bow to fake gods and fake goddesses 

In a fiery effort to consume ourselves

One moment my day was sunny and bright

Then bitter cold

The temperature plummeted

There was no time

To fly away and hide

My fate was sealed 

Flash frozen in place on a high wire

The people will come by the hundreds  

To watch 

They will mill around, feasting on popcorn and

     drinking soda

Talking on their cell phones and taking pictures

No one will bother to take me down

The thought will never occur to them

They are just robots

They will wonder, “how come, what happened?”

But I know the truth,

All words, 

     Empty words, hollow words