Drip Drip

more rain is falling down today

I’m on this sober living trip trip

I am happy going my own way

I wanna take a dip dip

in the ocean

self care style okay okay.

I am not a liar

I am on fire fire.

I am not a “magic bean buyer”

like Shell Silverstein poeticized

I am not political in nature

but I do have some stories to spin and tell.

Imagine if I slipped and fell down inside that deep vacuous well?

Like Alice in Wonderland when she literally

fell down the rabbit hole

and began her search for her soul

nothing more fun or scary sometimes than the feeling of being lost lost

an adventure for sure, but at what cost cost?

I want to feel my feelings the most

I am in control of my mind now

leaving all that suffering to be a lonely ghost.

Today is stormy but so productive

and feeling so whole and healed

like a banana

I must be unpeeled.

Right now I feel safe and held by my connections

near and far away

if today had all the answers

would tomorrow you still wish upon the stars?

I think I always will, but I wonder

if people stopped dreaming

what would the stars purpose be?

Navigation and astrology?

I am okay with that I guess but not really.

We must never stop dreaming

or living life fully and naturally.

I am happy to live life in the present,

to make happiness from scratch

like whipping up a nice cup of tea

and passing all life’s tests,

and leaving the wine upon

the shelf for all the unexpected guests

and celebrations still to come

where I can still enjoy and commemorate

drinking in my surroundings

savoring moments off life’s little plate

here is the key to happiness’s gate.

It is your fate to open it wide

to find the way up

down around

and to the side

inside.

You will slowly find you are not alone

you can always pick up the phone

or throw a nice new skipping stone

and call upon a friend to join you here and now

not foe’s cause why do that?

In the end it is about how you spend your time

no need to live on someone else’s dime

create your own mystery

and always remember to just be be be

be be,

and hold onto the “magic”

inside your “beans”

most of all, never

let go

of all

your

dreams.