Burn It Down Baby We Got Some Loving To Do

Burn It Down Baby 

We Got Some Loving To Do


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Outside my window 

Wind blows

A tree bows

Reminding me 

Of who "I" am

 

Outside these four walls 

In only a few days of loving 

A lifetime can be lived 

In a moment

Now "I" feel the dying 

Last days of dying

Autumn 

Leaves give forth 

One final burst of living 


Like a shooting star 

Falling into the embrace of winter

Soon all will be still again 

Soon all will be still again

Soon "I" will be again 


In the ending of what we were 

Find all myself "I" don't want to face

Ignorance, desire, anger, jealousy

Narcissistic ego 

Ugly head of this monster 

Peers forth at any moment. 


Descending 

Few thoughts of broken trust 

Dreams that didn't come true 

Expectations that didn't materialize

Of all the words that were spoken 

It's taken little to trigger the gun

Shooting forth my humanity 


"I'm" human and this humanity is killing me 

Dissolution "I'm" dying by pieces

Someday of this humanity

There will be nothing left 

No more anger

No more jealousy 

No more hate

No more ego



We will be left with the indestructible 

Unchanging part of ourselves which

Only knows love


To be human is to accept these things

These qualities that "I" don't want to accept

Accept them as part of my reality

To take them to hold them 

To feel them

To live them 

To be them


We're Gonna 

Burn It Down 

Tread a new path

Burn It Down Baby

We got some 

Loving to do


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Written by David Arndt September 17, 2022


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Artwork by Dorina Costras


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