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quietlaughter
bowed head moment lost
wind rolls over unknown land
laughter held like breath
eagle on the mountain waits
heartsong rises with the moon
~
26.03.08
quietlaughter
quietlaughter
Is your mind a safe place to be?
Voice inside my mind: (laughing) yeah whatever.
la: hey shut up, it’s a good question.
V: I know it is a good question, I also know the answer. A big fat NO. not in a million years. NO
la: ok, wow, how do you really feel?
V: are you going to deny it?
la: well no of course not – it isn’t exactly a safe place to be sometimes, but you don’t have to be so abrupt about it
V : sometimes? Yeah right.
la: ok ok, maybe not just sometimes, maybe MOST of the time, but that’s pretty natural I think.
V: yeah you can tell people to go sell crazy somewhere else because you are all full up here.
la: well now you are just being mean.
V: ok ok sorry, you aren’t crazy.
la: I might be.
V: now you are playing games
la: isn’t that what the mind does? I mean, you should know, you are in there right now.
V: it IS pretty spacious in here.
la: hey!
V: no seriously, I can hear an echo and everything
la: shut up.
V: there is one part though that you have barricaded shut. I have tried to pick the lock a few times but that is one tough lock you have on there.
la: well you can mind your own business.
V: true, I could, but where is the fun in that?
la: yeah, that’s what it is all about – fun.
V: at least you usually have a good sense of humour about things…. Sometimes anyway.
la: yeah I try. Sometimes there isn’t much to laugh about.
V: that’s because you think too much. Sometimes I have to compete with like a 1000 other voices, and when the monkeys get loose, who do you think cleans up that mess!?
la: monkeys.
V: YES! Monkeys – and you know what comes out of monkeys!?
la: a whole lot of shit?
V: YES! And while it reduces the echo – it smells terrible, and I end up missing the big empty space… it’s so big, it’s vast, enormous
la: oook I was almost feeling sorry for you.
V: having an empty mind is a compliment.
la: I know it is. Though I don’t have THAT kind of empty mind, otherwise you wouldn’t be harassing me and I wouldn’t be now thinking about monkey poop
Another Voice in my head: Hmm, sorry to interrupt, but could you all shut up!? I am trying to concentrate here.
V: (rolls eyes) oooooooh yes your highness.
la: hey be nice. She does have a point, YOU are being very LOUD.
V: so are you. (sticks tongue out)
la: (sighs) ok ok, we’re sorry for interrupting.
A.V.: thanks… by the way, it is a vast empty space in here.
V: AHA!
la: shut up!
~
quietlaughter
Low call of the mourning
Under the song of the sun
Rose petal unfolds
A breath held for the next rain
World reflected in a drop
my hand outstretched wide
to hold you safe in my palm
until you fly again
~
quietlaughter
One shirt on my back
The road paved beneath my feet
Green shoots stretch through cracks
~
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