chocolate chips and peanut butter

I poured chocolate chips into a jar of peanut butter last night

and ate it with a spoon

I felt the deep pain of heartache this morning and was laughing by noon

by that time I’d already heard the voices of the heckler, the critic, and the shrew

and with the skills of a master, i tamed them all and then reconnected with what I know to be true

i’ve learned that freedom is in the mind just as victor frankl wrote

i also know feelings are to be trusted and tuned into like a musical note

I know the privilege of skin, place and time while I witness a world of bullshit destruction, genocide and despair

how do we keep on living our lives while we also say we care?

our leaders are a bunch of traumatized children, trying to run the world

still using archaic, nonsensical systems to keep the majority in their place

it’s time to change things up a bit and redefine how things are run

from now on it’s about love - focusing on our likeness, our oneness, and our unity

how about that’s how things are done?

how about we use a matriarchal approach to building community and keeping the earth afloat?

what will it take I wonder, for humans to see themselves in one another and to send only love?

perhaps we’ll have to heal our own hearts first and learn to take responsibility for ourselves

to practice a radical acceptance and listen with kindness for the stories we have to tell

then maybe, with our whole selves we can send that love around to one another

seeing in each of us our own sweet faces reflected back in each other

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I poured chocolate chips into a jar of peanut butter last night

and ate it with a spoon