Cesspool

It always happens when I feel betrayed
Disgust engulfs me; I can’t digest
food for another’s existence
It’s toxic; it’s unhealthy;
It vitiates social systems
denies justice
restricts free expression
It keeps the venom
circulating in blood vessels
The heart cannot take it
The heart will give up….

Reluctantly
I touch transfused blood
as corpuscles call out
for acceptance
They hold hatred I nursed
animosity I felt on being let down
resentment on not getting my fair share
ever-increasing list of woes,
tears shed to show, not flow

Fire’s not potent enough to destroy
Winds just circulate; but can’t take it away
Water’s a carrier, not destroyer; whatever you say
The Sun highlights, but lets the unacknowledged
dissolve in darkness of the subconscious
The Earth absorbs it all; and gifts it to a seed
to sprout and return whatever came by

Emotions are processing machines
to acknowledge, choose and discard
whatever’s not needed by life
Bodies are not junkyards
generate new positivity
shed the old; destroy connectivity
to zones you don’t want to be in

there are no gods in the skies;
all you have is within;
Soul impressions indelible
It’s what you can’t leave,
It’s what you live in…

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Reena’s Xploration Challenge #258