LENS OF EXPERIENCE

If you are seeing hypocrisy, 

then you are likely looking for hypocrisy

through the lens of your experience

Just as if you see an opportunity to work together

then you are likely looking for that opportunity

to join with others to improve this life

Since I have experienced lies, abuse, betrayal and violent deaths

The lens through which I view life is distorted by these experiences

To see opportunities for a different life, I must remove these distortions--

take off the glasses

clean the lenses

or whatever metaphor you wish to use

Rewind the tape of my experiences

And start with a clean, fresh tape

Is this possible?

I'm hopeful it is

For if not, we are condemned to struggle and disappointment and injustice

And I am so weary of those illusions

I want to see Truth and Beauty and Integrity

Wisdom and Grace

To deeply feel the knowing of the Universe

that all experiences are an opportunity 

to see life in a different way

To clear off the fog of abuse and struggle

And let the rays of hope and beauty shine through

To not be mired in the sewage of fear

so deeply it seems we will never be free of it

To know we can scrape the poo off the shoes of our soul

LOL at the purple prose

Not to take ourselves so seriously

Not to overdramatize or chew constantly on angst

But to find the humor

The joy

The opportunity

of living life without the lenses of distortion

To see clearly with the eyes of our true being

that of love and beauty and opportunity

Opportunity


©GenieGabriel