Perhaps we are all lost a little - Connie Madden

[Larry Robinson]

Perhaps we are all lost a little

I miss my mother; she listened to me

Sent me Pablo Neruda’s Fully Empowered,

Hoping that I would be.

She called Sunday evenings to

Listen to my News of the Day, the Week

Or month.

How would fully empowered feel?

Able to use my soul to enrich others?

Able to connect people who need each other

To complete themselves and their work?

Able to relax into life so it may be enjoyed

More than fought through.

How could we NOT be at least a bit lost?

Men we are asked to trust lead us

Ever closer to world war and possible

Annihilation;

Other men, mostly men, take away

The civil rights we worked for a lifetime

Or more to put in place.

If we are not required to love each other,

At least should we not be required to

Respect each other? To share. 

How can our world be good

If we do not treat each other kindly?

How can our future be bright

If we are not quite sure love is real.

I want to curl up

And cry with you.

There is so much pain

In a life

And so very much joy

If you seek it but

You have to seek that and hold on.

Beauty, is all around

If you get off your iPhone.

Please come and find me;

I’ll be looking everywhere for you

Because it matters when you can touch

Another soul and 

Once you have met on the astral plain

You shall remain there together forever.

Or not. Which?

	- Connie Madden