How can you
“Get complete”
With someone
Who is committed
To misunderstanding you?
The way to peace
Isn't in talking
To crazy people
(and all people
Are crazy)
Who only see
And hear
Their projections
Of me.
You are right
My faith
Was blind
A projection
That the people
I thought
Loved me
Wouldn't hurt me,
But I was
Naïve.
Only the people
Who love you
Can hurt you
Can hurt me
Have hurt me
Have projected
On me
As I have
On them…
I am crazy
In my own
Particular way
I am not free
From the
Insanity,
I am a human
Living on
The planet
Earth after all.
It's time to
Judge my neighbor
So I can see
Myself more
Clearly…
What bothers
Me about them
Lives in me.
I don't like
What I see
And it's not
That I don't like
Who I am
But I don't like
Who I am
When I am
With them.
Trouble is
I carry them
In my head
And have
Imaginary arguments
That aren't
Really there…
They take up
Free rent in
My head
And I need
Too many
Eviction notices
When I realize
They never had
A real relationship
With me
Only an
Imaginary one.
Nothing is personal
And as much as I try
To remember that
I take it personally
When someone
Wants me to leave.
I'm so damn good
At finding the land mines
People buried
To forget
What they were
So angry about.
Spend any amount
Of time with me
And you will
Not have the
Luxury
Of being
Unconscious about
It.
I've come to
Realize
Painfully realize
That others
Enjoy the righteousness
Of their suffering…
And even when they
Ask what I see
They hate the answers
More than that
They resent the answers
And forget
That it is only
An opinion,
It can only ever
Be a partial truth
At best,
But don't ask
And then get
Angry with me
Because you
Don't like the
Answers.
It's never been
My job to change
Anyone,
But I am a catalyst
No one is
Ever the
Same after
Mixing with me.
Everyone's a little
Piece of God
Trying to have
A conversation
With me,
Sometimes we
Argue,
Sometimes we
Fall in love,
Sometimes we
Understand each other,
Sometimes,
A lot of the time
We don't.
OH Beloved…
I have no idea
What to do…
Help me
With this
Crazy world
With these crazy
People
Whom I've lost
Hope of ever
Stopping
Their projections
From falling all over
Me.
