“If you looked into the mirror of us all?”
“PHANTOMS”
If you looked into the mirror of us all?
Paused to take in both the reflections of recognized faces and the figures thriving within the shadows of our fears…
What might you see?
If you looked into the mirror of us all?
Stopped to gaze into the safe places or toward the echoes of pain…
What might you hear?
If you looked into the mirror of us all?
Heard the unbiased cry of a first human breath and absorbed an inescapably shared birth experience…
What might you feel?
If you looked into the mirror of us all?
Paused to visualize the innocence of a wordless infant child.
The guardian who,
residing under the walls of our life-earned exteriors,
might well be moderating our loving and desperate moments.
The child within,
who whether unblemished or bruised and battered,
is still a most deserving being.
Worthy of forgiveness for deeds of past generations.
Deserving not to be condemned.
To not be destroyed for sins of transgressors now gone.
If you looked into the mirror of us all?
Peered past pre-conceived notions.
Lived beyond all the justified and irrational fear.
Reached to walk away from any anticipated outcome.
To,
Simply let go…
Allow,
The healing tears freedom.
To inhale the very same breath that brought each of us to existence.
Receive a clarity that, unpolluted by knowledge of the past or controlled by the intellect of the present, has the depth to comfort all who listen.
And as we do,
take in the knowledge and live the action it offers.
Yes…
if you looked into the mirror of us all.
What might you see?
Beautiful, brother!
Thanks Mark! Means a lot coming from you.