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We don’t wear our mind on our sleeve
We wear our mind
Our body is an extension
of mental characteristics and environmental dynamics
like a suit custom made from our past
each scar a sovereign of pain and knowledge
each flaw a feeling not forgotten
“fat thighs packed with childhood anger
baldness from trying to control everything
breast problems from refusing to nourish yourself
indigestion from gut-level fear, dread, and anxiety
halitosis from a rotten attitude”
As we speak our cells are regenerating
We are rewiring ourselves
according to what we THINK
The replicated cells are all confused
They think MONEY is the same thing as WORRY
The circuits have been crossed
They think TIME is the same thing as FEAR
You must synergize your synapses
They have reconnected all crippled
They think LOVE is the same thing as DISSAPOINTMENT
They got all these ideas from patterns in your behavior
And now like a run-away disc drive these patterns can’t be stopped
OR
rather they are difficult to stop
because you can’t just change what you do
you have to change the way you think
you have to change the way you live
or suffer your untimely demise.
Secrets of a Small Synapse
It starts when you’re young
The bountiful brainwash
careful coloring books
Rules, regulations, rituals, routines
“STAY BETWEEN THE LINES,”
Wristwatches and Bedtimes
Watching time
“At 6:30 AM We wake up,”
“At 9:00 PM We go to bed.”
It doesn’t matter if you’re tired
Just Follow
Don’t question
Why?
“At 8:00 AM We go to school,”
“At 12:00 PM We eat lunch,”
I don’t need a clock to tell me
I’m hungry or tired
I don’t need the television
to tell me
What time it is
The writing seems pretty clear
The possessive propaganda
Eat three meals a day
Five food groups
Fully functioning Fear
Develops
Those that operate outside the box
Are shunned and sequestered
denigrated and denied
nourishment
Gifts suffer and
Dreams deflate
Dying in the stomach
Where they grow into something Else
Secrets of the Psyche
“All learning is remembering
what we have forgotten.”
at the blessed birth
at the dharmatic death
the elusive Ego
not dipping deeply enough
to uncover ultimate understanding
the original origins
the destiny of the final destination
is blocked by biological needs
the message muted
sounding like stale static
as harmony brushes by beneath us
we vaguely feel the familiarity
like a long lost home
we never knew we had
truth teases time
testing us
knowing the soul is forever
telling us
the body will soon expire
subliminally
We know ALL
yet We
only believe what we want to believe
and our frail bodies will die
because of the fear that it is an inevitability
