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WALK WITH ME BEFORE YOU TALK; WHERE IS GOD WHEN THINGS GO WRONG?
Dear Michael,
You so vividly speak of the power of our emotions when faced with unfathomable cruelty, misery, fear, dread, and despair, and the strength you have always found to somehow go on, and on, and on. Yes, the footsteps leading to your hole are your own.
Your words move me, an old man, a verteran only of the "Cold War" in Europe (20 years), a civilian (I was too old when I tried to join), and I pray for you. It's like a sandstorm. You know that, but let me reassure you, it is. Bliding sand, harsh wind, then the brown raging cloud has moved on, you can see it fading downwind, and you can feel the crusty powered grit all over yourself.
Who knows how long you will survive? Or me? I'm almost 70, and by all odds, you should outlive me, except for the outrageous fate you face every day.
Delerium, altzheimers, death - they are all deliverances from our evils. Yes, hell is on earth. I personally don't put much faith in all kinds of fancy after-life stuff. Heaven is, after years of the opposite, mine right now. For how long? I don't even have a certainty of one second, much less 10, maybe 20 more years. I have to be right with God, for he, like gravity, is a fact. He's not going to listen to us, either, if we tell him thirst or wounds or unfairness is all wrong, and he'd better change it now. Freud once said, "There is no such thing as a accident." Einstein said "God does not play dice with the universe." I believe everything that happens is from the hand of God, somehow, and it is a good hand, somehow, though we are convinced that things "shoud" or "must" or "Have to be" different. Much of what you write about is what everyone human sees and has to deal with, to a greater or lesser degree. Hippies told me once, "There is no gravity -Earth Sucks!" Thinking about it, I had to agree. But a beyond our own tiny eyes lies the Universe, and the God that made it, and he is willing to share with us his viewpoint, a viewpoint I don't hear in sermons (I never go to services or Mass any more, but I pray alone in the church or chapel, quietly, deeply.) I don't read it in books, but I've seen it in Buddhist teachings - the masters are super cool, not disturbed by bad things, not terrifically happy about good things. Just cool, meditating, praying wordless prayers.
It's 3:19 AM and I have to go to bed and teach a nun public speaking later this morning at 10 AM, so please excuse me. Just know that there IS a Greater Being, a "God," a :"Father" who is in heaven, as it were, and in every craziness and horror there is a plan, a good side, somehow, and it's up to us to deal with the hand God deals us, be really "together" and cool headed, and try to come out OK for the rest of the time we are given on earth. I've found being good to others is about the best medicine I can find.
God bless you , Michael.
TWAINMAN
posted by
Twainman
on October 29, 2006 at 12:19 PM
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THANK YOU FOR TELLING US NOW I FEEL BETTER THAT YOU ARE FINE..
....najwa
posted by
NAJWA
on September 23, 2006 at 1:44 PM
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Hello everyone....This poem is not about me being angry but it i sabout those who speak illof others and are quicj into passing judgement without knowing the person at all.
Nevertheless, I am doing great
posted by
michael_pilarte
on September 23, 2006 at 12:42 PM
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Brotherman, this is hugely good writing!
posted by
teddypoet_TheGoodByeFade
on September 23, 2006 at 7:26 AM
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TELL ME WHY THE ANGER???it is so strong and no one can wear your boots
no one can live the others desteny I hope that you are ok Mike???,,,najwa
posted by
NAJWA
on September 23, 2006 at 5:41 AM
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