complicated basics...

"it is your judgments that keep you from joy...and your expectations which make you unhappy..." - Converstations with God (book one) by Neale Donald Walsch

I wish for the basic simplicity of things.
no attachments, no strings…

It is basic, it is plain
it is pleasure, it is pain…
no more, no less…
nothing more to address…

I wish it were that simple…
but life never is…

In truth there are but basic complications…

when you show more than what they see.
you shake up some known notions…
you demonstrate what and how much more it can be…
without using tricks, without magic potions…

There’s really more to anyone
than anyone can ever imagine anyone to be…

the human make-up is so complicated
that it takes a lot of courage to simplify it deliberately.

the energy someone so passionately exhausts…
to hide all the beautiful colors of experiences, dreams and thoughts…

fearing embarrassment, dreading judgment…
worrying of vulnerabilities you think you’re not equipped to face…
to fall out of place, to fall from what to popular belief is grace…

nothing and no one is what it, he or she seems…
the little secrets that haunt them even in their dreams…
you’ll never know and that’s the way it should be.
you don’t have to know, you don't have to hear or see…

accept what and how someone is to you…
don't ask, don’t bother, don’t seek a clue or two…
respect what he shows, respect what he hides…
be aware of him without ever taking sides…

the joy, the heartbreak, the daily things he endures…
the smiles, the help, the time he extends, he assures…
his wishes, his wants, his love, his little sores…
it is his, his choice, his right, never yours…

you are here for your own salvations,
not here to judge someone else’s life decisions.
controversy is entertaining only to those who don’t care…
a kind heart knows what’s uncomfortable, what’s unfair…

not one is better than the other…
we all but try to survive and shudder…
we all cry, we all dream, we all fart…
we’re lucky to be given a brain, to be given a heart…

use them right and you might just make it…
forgive yourself, hold your breath, savor it…

leave other people be, no matter how interesting they are…
you have your own life to be concerned about,
so... what have you really done so far?