Paradox of Paradise

March 24

PARADOX OF PARADISE

Paradise is created when I collect paradox and live with it.  Paradise is the set of acceptance and suspended disbelief.  If anything is possible, accepting what comes is less heart-wrenching.  If I arrest my misgivings, gratification in the voluptuousness of now is velvet.  Vague consent is a Hell of incapacity.  Fighting fiercely for both sides keeps the heart pumping and the mind at bliss.  I must work to embrace contradiction and happiness. There is more than one path to take and I must take that one.

When you give time also take time.

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Two X’s

I play sport at the three X folks

and their still sometimes skewed thinking.

Yet, I attack myself for feeling like a babe in the woods.

Old and wise should be my stock and trade by now though

I find vastness at my door regularly

and confidence struggles to peek in the window.

What in the world will I do if I can’t perfect this stuff soon?

Hopefully nothing as foolish as fretting

or anything as mean spirited as accusation.

Possibly I could try reception.

Truly this only comes in gift wrap and after twenty years

I would hope I had learned to live in the present.

You are reading selections from Sober on the Way to Sane and More Lines From My Life by Sherrie Theriault

http://www.amazon.com/Sober-On-The-Way-Sane/dp/1440417342/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388576888&sr=8-1&keywords=sober+on+the+way+to+sane

http://www.amazon.com/More-Lines-From-My-Life/dp/1448677203/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1388576956&sr=8-1&keywords=More+Lines+From+My+Life