A narrative free form poem about the many crossroads of our journeys… when all purpose seems “Too Misunderstood”
…a poem by Harlon Rivers
…if a tree falls in the forest, does anybody hear? Photo Harlon Rivers
Finding Too Misunderstood
Once there was a lost soul who felt too misunderstood
It searched untiringly across the vast universe,
In quest of an illusive, undiscoverable explanation.
It had become a lost alien in an unfamiliar world
Inhaling the toxic air of quintessential confusion
Cast out by mainstream conformity
Banished by a jury of peers,
“Too Misunderstood" set out alone
Searching the mystic skies,
Seeking understanding of past unanswerable questions
As if the inspiration read from the greatest minds
Thoughts conceived by supreme intellectual spirits
Music stimulated by the greatest iconic performers,
Evaded his simple mind’s quest for enlightened reasoning
Perception of truth...
Frustration exhausted and consumed this soul's very existence
So he hunched beneath a giant Old Growth Douglas Fir to rest in
that familiar place of comfort and safety, isolated in solitude...
A place where so many answers had been discovered
while evaluating a soul's essence during emotional moments
of misunderstood sensitivity
The misunderstood soul hugged the sacred familiar ground
Where Mother Earth harbored her deeply grounded mysteries
The secrets held within her non-penetrated density,
where the soul’s human form evolved from the
dust of her deepest roots
"Too Misunderstood" embraced her earthly stature
All the while, listening in contemplative silence,
Hoping the answers revealed would be sung
with the voices of the gentle whispering breeze.
The enormous tree wept rain drops onto the thirsting soul,
Yielding the energy of the spirit of nature...
She could only speak in understanding tongues,
and yet, the soul that felt too misunderstood,
vividly felt the spirit of empathy
from compassionate understanding,
as a peaceful spiritual aura lingered
within the stillness of the sultry air...
In the awakening of a defining moment,
“Thunder” clapped from the heavens !!!
“Thunder” clapped from the heavens !!!
Kaboom!!!
... Spontaneously illuminating extraordinary brightness...
Kaboom!!!
...Explosive rumbling!…Detonation of apathetic silence...
A bolt of lightning struck nowness... The Giant Fir Tree was splintering!!!
Her mighty limbs came crashing down in the sympathetic agony of
merciful surrender...
...Lightning struck the humbled frightened soul…
...Flattening the human form to its knees...
...Enkindling awareness... from the threshold of lost consciousness...
In the silence of inciting passion
In the aftermath of indecision
In the haze of the smoldering power
of love's energy and splintered dust,
The too misunderstood soul
Found peace of understanding within
the powerful presence of the moment's solitude
All truth’s infinite roots are eternally grounded
within the bedrock of the soul...
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