What happens when you focus on love, harmony, compassion, appreciation, and gratitude? Can you feel stressed or depressed when you’re focusing on what brings joy? What creates illness? Research has indicated that stress is the number one factor that creates illness. Therefore, the wise approach would be to focus on what brings joy, and you’ll be happier and healthier, mind, body and spirit. Danny G.
Seeking Peace and Unity (Poem)
We don’t understand the impact of our words.
Our actions spit out prejudice and malice
Among others,
Through nothing but ancestry and culture,
And skin on our bones.
Nation after nation,
We create our own competition,
Seeking one way to live,
One truth to accept,
Altering the meaning of prophesies into lies.
We don’t understand the impact of our words.
Our words spit out racism and slurs,
Not considering the lives
We affect,
Through prejudice and conflict and war.
We create havoc among each other,
Sleep walking and bashing each other,
To win some contest of better or not.
Let’s not forget our core,
Our reason for being,
To live peacefully
As brothers and sisters,
Let’s not contradict through lies.
Seasons Changing (Poem)
Every season,
Brings its own mission,
To pursue
An unending trail,
With mountains,
And fields,
And open space.
Weaving and turning,
As we find our compass
To carve the way.
Pushing through uncertainties,
And doubts,
As we feel our fears
And declare our wants,
And don’t give in.
We take our pen,
And write the story,
With a white canvas,
And a happy ending.
Some enter,
Some leave,
Some leave a tattoo,
Imprints their name.
As we simply accept,
Seasons changing,
But true friends
Always remain.
You Have the Right to be You
Take the subject of relationships and marriage for example. We have a marriage in which a couple falls in love and gets married. We have same-sex marriage, arranged marriage, common law relationships, open relationships, or people who prefer to remain celibate. It’s just an individual choice, there’s no right or wrong. The only wrong choice would be conforming to other’s expectations and ideals. You’re in charge, and you have the right to be you. Danny G.
The Promise (Poem)
He looked into her dying eyes,
And saw the dreadful anguish
In her eyes, at 86,
While death is staring face to face.
She said why, oh why?
Why does it have to be this way?
What’s the point of all of this?
In a state of disarray,
From watching his loved one
Passing away.
He then promised himself,
On that very day,
He would never ask that question
On his dying day,
And he would live life to the fullest,
Until his very last day,
So the questions
Would be irrelevant,
On that same day.
Follow Your Intuition Don’t Conform
How did anyone do anything great? By listening to their peers, conforming to everybody’s expectations, and accepting their environment as their only hope? Many of us are told to face reality and follow the pact. We’re told to do whatever is considered normal or expected, given the circumstances. There’s nothing for you to do other than the impositions you create yourself. Be yourself, create the life you want, and follow your intuition but don’t conform to everybody’s expectations. Danny G.
Trust Without Reason (Poem)
He asked his father,
What can I do?
It feels like check mate,
I’ve tried everything,
I feel as though,
The weight on my shoulders
Is crippling me now.
Do I lay down?
And let the current sweep me away?
And allow the weight of the tide
To pull me down?
He said to his son,
What is unwavering faith and boldness
And persevering despite doubt?
The son replied I don’t know.
His father replied,
It’s to not know,
And still believe, despite reason.
It’s to say, I don’t understand,
But father I know you have a way,
And I won’t stop nagging,
Until my promise is fulfilled,
And my mission is complete.
Politics and Contemplation (Poem)
Politics.
We don’t understand the concept of it all.
We’ll reject it or embrace it,
With nothing but a smirk on our lips.
Everyone is an enemy,
Or so we’re taught
To behave this way.
Bashing each other,
To win some contest
Of better or not.
We create havoc among each other,
Without a means to an end.
We insult, criticize,
Based solely on appearance.
We rather have the master,
That speaks tongues
And embraces himself in vain.
We choose him rather than
True values at stake.
We choose him because he’s a man,
Underestimating every women in the world.
We don’t understand the true meaning of politics.
What it can do for a nation.
We rather bash each other,
And blame,
Then contemplate our motives at stake.
Wisdom of God at Your Fingertips
Seek yourself and what you’re called to do, as nobody knows you better than you. Don’t seek outside yourself when you have the wisdom of God at your fingertips. Advice from others is good, but sooner or later we don’t agree on everything, and that’s ok because that’s what makes the world in all its facets and forms. How did anyone do anything great? Following the pact or listening to their divine wisdom? Danny G.
True Meaning of Courage (Poem)
The most courageous of them all
Is the one
Who declares his faith,
Despite appearance
Contradicting his faith.
The one who perseveres,
Despite reality pushing him down.
He seeks compassion,
Despite the cruelty
Imprinted in the world.
The most courageous of them all,
Is the one who declares I can,
Despite inferiority sneaking up.
The one who never gave in,
Or forgot who he was
And where he came from.
The most courageous one, is the one
Who got up,
Despite the pile of brick on his back.
He remained steadfast,
Despite the world shaking him up.
He seeks enlightenment,
Despite the darkness in the world.
He’s the enlightened one,
Who speaks it into being,
Then watches the universe
Manifest it into being.
Always a victor,
And never underestimating
His own power.