I dream.... Forever

I dream.... forever?

I dream as I often do

Of a planet where humans are free

Free to join hands in caring for our precious abode

Free to be ourselves

while being an integral part of a community

Free to stop searching for a purpose where there is none

Free to love others and be loved

Free to feel the pain of others less fortunate

Free to state our feelings without being judged

Free for our views to be considered dispassionately

Free to receive and understand the views of others

Free to forgive and bear no grudges

Free to let go the burning ember of regret and revenge

Free not to be classified according to birth, belief or bias

An interconnected world permeated by respect and love

A veritable Utopia without the need to commit to a Faith,

Judged on action and behaviour, not on words without meaning

Will I be dreaming forever in this complex world or ours?

Seeking solace

The angry wind sweeps across the sea unceasingly
Line after line of surging waves searching land eagerly
Waves rise and rumble forwards like moving walls of water
Breaking with a foamy splash bathing the shore further

She cuts a lonely figure silhouetted against the orange sky
Hair fluttering aimlessly as strong breezes pass her by
Staring into the distance in a thoughtful gaze
Whatever she is thinking is not seen in her face

Wave upon wave forming and breaking unceasingly
And rushing in spreading  around her feet lovingly
With each wave deeper and deeper her feet sink in
As she stood alone on the shore in a dream gazing

The expansive and choppy sea is nearly empty
Just a lone boat bobbing up and down gently
A swarm of birds now interrupts the vast sky
A thousand black specks in transient patterns fly

She stands motionless erect with arms at her sides
Seemingly lost in thought as tears well in her eyes
They run down in streaks on her soft proud cheeks
She takes a deep breath, her feelings she conceals

The sky becomes darker as the sun dips into the sea
Now a bright orange crescent peering over the sea
Soon a bright red speck beneath a darkened sky
Radiating a ripple of bright light on the sea nearby

Is there a raging fire inside her that we cannot see?
Soon darkness sets in heralding such calm and serenity
Just the soothing sound of gentle waves lapping the shore
Is she too calming down just like the sea for sure?

She raises her shoulders with a long deep breath
Face etched with grief, a matter of life and death?
Then drops them slowly with an agony untold
Turns and walks away to face her troubled world
Fading away, a tiny speck in the bleak horizon.

Universal Truth by MG

UNIVERSAL TRUTH

A person, a self, an aware being,

Smaller than a pin head in an ocean

The ocean itself 

a pin head in a vast Universe

A person of Universal Insignificance 

yet of high Personal Significance

Happy or not, in pain or not,

is all a matter of central sensation

Sensation is individual, 

experience-conditioned, 

expectation-conditioned

Nothing is absolute

The  intensity of the sensory experience

can vary in and within persons

with the same stimulus and circumstances

Why waste time, money and energy

trying to intensify and vary the stimulus

in the hope of a greater sensory experience

Is it not better to change the reaction 

rather than the stimulus?

And be similarly or  even more content 

with less futile investment of time and energy.

Is this the secret of happiness?

What is happiness?

Just a state of mind

What is mind?

Just a conscious awareness