smile

smile
even as you hold
shattered crystal
of your world
in your hands.

smile
at the beauty of
each shimmering shard
swimming in
its ocean of red.

smile
as red coalesces
ever so slowly
crystal morphs into ruby
glows with a roseate hue.

miracles

i understand all about
tests, reports, worries,
scans, chemos, radios,
pains, fevers, nauseas,
and all the unnamed horrors.

please take care.
have your meds and nutrients.
inhale some fresh air.
pause to smell flowers,
watch the moon and stars.

please smile.
when you smile
all the good hormones
flow through your bodies
and help you heal soon.

please do not give up.
have seen many miracles.
am praying for more.
praying for a miracle
for each one of you.

for my very special friends.

times

take the sun away.
let me hide
in the deep dark crevices
of my mind.
let thoughts be
locked forever
in the labyrinths
of silent synapses.

but

no matter
how deep the shadow
how dark the eclipse
sun smiles
as a diamond.

lives

lives
psyches
images
ideas
emotions
relations

may become

manic
transient
depressive
disparate
desperate
fragmented

but hope dreams
in translucent leaves
of the Bodhi.

isms

vitalism
fatalism
positivism
nominalism
naturalism
empiricism
idealism
rationalism
evolutionism
determinism
romanticism
atheism
pantheism
capitalism
communism
socialism
marxism
materialism
structure functionalism
conflict functionalism
intuitionism
behaviorism
instrumentalism
symbolic interactionism
reductionism
realism
pragmatism
utilitarianism
operationalism
quantitativism
pluralism
neonominalism
neopositivism
neofunctionalism
neomarxism
neoevolutionism
creationism
informationalism
structuralism
poststructuralism
modernism
postmodernism

so many more isms…
what are isms really?

facets of reality?
perspectives?
frames of reference
to understand the universe?

beliefs to hold
defend
desperately
when all else is uncertain?