Lightning's Lashing
Loneliness
Pit of Despair
Life is for us a continuous struggle. Yet this is the idea set to us that is being handed to us from generation thereafter. John Bradshaw calls it poisonous pedagogy. The Bible though often quoted has been and always been misinterpreted. Just like the original idea of yoke which means join together and burden means message (qtd from ACIM).
Lightning’s Lashing
Rumbling, carving the heaven
As rapid as the whirlwind, suddenly it’s gone
If he’s coming, the heart beats fast
Full of fear, enshroud with terror
Such is our life full of struggles
Embracing danger and bitterness
That’s invoked by suffering
that is the outcome of lack of concern for others
Devoid of respect…
Sometimes it’s like a cyclone
Accompanying the bearer of unending
So naïve, so complacent
You can’t evade, it’s like a thief
As fast as the stroke of a lightning
Awaiting when you least expect it
You can’t escape, you’re unprepared
How can you wrestle, if you’ve been struck?
Will you just accept it, that you’ll go crazy?
Will you do nothing, to overcome it?
You’ll be likened to a tree, standing
Smacked, scraped, beaten
Flaming, blazing
Until all is spent, totally vanished
Except for the stump, all that’s left behind of a past
Reflecting the untold sorrow, mourning
Can’t help but shed tears
Of the oppression endured, the jaws gritting
Can’t do anything, too tired to go on
Gasping for breath, just like a waning candle
Can’t overwhelm the present condition
No more strength, tears have dried up
Feelings are long gone, just like a living dead
Can’t even distinguish between right and wrong
Shriveling, just like a withered leaf
Being carried by the wind, anywhere it goes
Can’t even take a peek, oh life so cruel
The only wish, is to depart
Life so forlorn, full of anguish…
