That Umbrella Day

The man with the Broken Green Umbrella

What good is a broken umbrella?

One edge sags in and with each step

the corner

slaps the metal pole

showering him with

spray and getting his shoes wet

What is it that I really want to say?

WE ARE ALL THE SAME!

I want to find God

I want to find myself

I want sex,

pleasure,

chocolate,

hot tea on a rainy day.

It’s all been said before and we are dying inside

for lack of inspiration and passion

The Man says, Get a job

The People say, Give us freedom

The Women say, Love me

The Men say, Respect me

The Children say, Play with me

But we are ALL the same

We bow to a God up there –

call him by a name and give our souls

away to the church of our Desire

The prophets and the saints told us to

stand on our own two feet

We were born into this world in this form

Mary Oliver said,

“What will you do with this one wild

and precious life?”

I seek beauty and friendship

I want to walk on this Earth and not die

before my time

as an old,

wise,

woman

Shot down at the hand of someone who has

forgotten how to love

Robbed by someone who was never told how

wonderful they were

Run over by lack of attention and care

Grabbed by Cancer because pollution is everywhere

It is undeniable – seized by desire we become

slaves to our bodies

Tame those wild notions of separateness and ease

into your unique qualities – you are a person,

same as me.

I may look different than you, I may act different, I may say

some pretty obscene things, but at the core, we are

all the same.

Desire for fulfillment.

And how to obtain this you ask?

Well my lovely, there is not right way or wrong

way,

there is no set of rules

for this life,

The Bible does not say it all – how could it?

The Vedas to not

hold the ultimate truth – how could they?

I am an American, I came from entrepreneurs,

innovators, a people who cultivated in themselves

a strength to do things differently. I came

from a melting  pot of ideas and races and

origins – I am not one, separate, worthy, white,

female – I am a soul same as you.

With a brain, a pair of eyes, a set of morals,

two ears, two legs, two hands and a tongues to form sounds into

syllables to tell you how much I love you.