Actors In A Play

Inspired by the poem “When In Doubt” by Sandra Cisneros

Currently, life seems unreal

As I unreel my grief to a tree

An actor in a play, written millennia ago

I heed the clouds and expand into the sky

As I collect blessings from those that own nothing

I find

That ownership is a curse

And nothing is a blessing

Words swirl around me

Sounding truths I have been taught

From dusty books

and dusty men

Fear falls flat as I find that

Those books and men

Never Gave Blessings

Never Heeded Clouds

They took and stole and expanded into power

For a time I did too

I felt expansion was

to toil and take

to steal and strip

Now, as I heed the clouds

I find expansion in my mind

Gathering everyone’s grief

That they have unreeled to a tree

Tasting their tears, their fears, the crash of the years

They taste me

As we share we find

We all have nothing

But the blessings we give

As we hold

As we caress

As we cry

As we scream

As we sing

We own none of this

Actors in a play

Written millennia ago

As we expand into each other

We expand into the sky

Another round

Another life