Those Among Us – A Poem
(A Reverie, Part One of Two)

There are those among us who support and nurture and delight in our progress.
There are those among us who sabotage and manipulate and grow envious of our successes.

There are those among us who think clearly and speak the truth as they see it.
There are those among us who impose their dark, cloudy confusions on others and distort the truth with lies and manipulations.

There are those among us who live in the present and know grace.
There are those among us who are trapped in past or future and know only illusion.

There are those among us who listen quietly to their inner wisdom.
There are those among us who shout out their discomforts as they scream at the agony within.

There are those among us who have tasted sweet perfection.
There are those among us who are sure it’s all horribly, horribly wrong.

There are those among us who comprehend only things and say that they are being objective.
There are those among us who experience only feelings and say that they are being subjective.

There are those among us who are hollow and incomplete.
There are those among us who are joyful and replete.

There are those among us living in darkness if living it may be.
There are those among us dancing in light forever.

There are those among us with faces aflame in hatred and pain.
There are those among us with faces serene in compassion and understanding.

There are those among us who believe they are less than us.
There are those among us who know they are more than us.

There are those among us with nothing further to say.
There are those among us who never stop saying it.