Out of sorts with being in sync

I’m looking to simplify but not dumb this down,  
to crystallize the flow of light in tones of sound, 
into something we can move forward with –  
more tangible than the tics we’ve developed 
and more sensible than rapid response –  
an instant aggrandizement of position, 
positioned on edge in blurring fields 
on the slope of crumbling ground 

Some burgeoning fantasy quest develops 
across toasted slopes and though spring flowing shade, 
into murky dusk and down into night fire –  
on through the pricked points of thousands 
simultaneously broadcasting code onto the path, 
laid out with a mirage of muddied water, 
littered with signage, 
marking confusion away from established boundaries 
into a just pattern 

MM 10/15

Awake to mourn the passing of your future perception

Deep within a core of rotten wire 
tied in hundreds of little knots, 
a dynamic torture tension, 
like puppet strings from within 

Forced pleasantries within the line 
to the edges of a panic room, 
scaling around a giant centerpiece hole 
to a jimmied-up window board 

Awake before the alarm 
greets the day like a mourning song 
Morning’s mounting heaps –  
death and despair and uncertainty –  

blurring perception of the moment 
and mirroring the acid eating away 
the guts’ core lining and structure, 
or the labyrinth in the ear

MM 10/15

Mission Statement on Love & Marriage

Love is the intimate understanding, acceptance of, and commitment 
to ourselves and to another person 
We are born into the love of our family, 
and through that love we learn to love ourselves 

Transferring on to the important people  
who may cross into our lives over a lifetime –  
close friends, romantic partners, 
and subsequently our children, and our children’s children 

Being in love is love’s expression and intensification 
due to the physical and mental intimacy that results 
from two persons’ initial attraction 
and subsequent growth together 

Marriage is a partnership between two people, 
built upon a foundation of deeper love, 
where the partners define themselves through the marriage 
as well as individually, 
structuring their lives according to a shared vision 

The partnership creates a family, with or without children 
Its success is dependent upon both partners 
understanding, accepting, and successfully negotiating its cyclical nature,
 never letting it veer into the path 
of becoming linear

MM 9/13, revised 10/15