Broken Families

We try to be friends,
impossible, without feeling cared for
and having trust.
Even with common bonds
we can't find one
that glues.
Now that its Christmas
we're feeling the blues.
Blues for families and a world
that can't relate.
We always hope its
not too late
but who are we kidding,
its never been great.

United States of Hypocrisy

Liberty and Justice for all
only if you have tons of money
like O.J. and Assange

We have women's rights in this country
We don't walk behind the men (visibly)
like they do in Japan...
but we are silently paid less
valued less

We play the BIG guy all over the world
and can't take care of our own
We don't value our elderly
 and our poor are a holiday concern

We elect a black man to the Presidency
so us whites aren't prejudice -right?
Yet he is silently feared and this assertion is proven by
the lack of power most will allow him to assert

Most state that they are: Christians
but they are hateful, mean & intolerant;
unlike Jesus, they are
hypocrites in the land of hypocrisy!

Lights of Christmas

Prestrung,
polished,
pretty,
predominant,
peaceful.

Luminenscent,
lulling,
lighthouses,
lusterous,
lamps.

Holy,
halos,
hanging,
hallowed,
heavenly.

Paralysis Analysis

Regurgitation
of thoughts
insisting they
be answered; while we
examine every nuance,
of what was done;
left undone;
said;
or unexpressed.
Answers seen in a facial gesture
(that could have been gas)?
We ask the aggressive question:
Why?
For which there is never an answer
that can be completely true or satisfying
under the microscope of deconstruction.
Oh, how we waste our time on Earth.
Why?

Ritual

My internal peace
should not grind and whirl
with thoughts
not easy to turn away.
I practice
stepping inside
beckoning a sparkling light
which enters
from the top of my head.
s l o w l y
 it wanders, bobbing, and gliding
like slivers of gemstones dancing
with joyfulness through obstacles
casting them aside; after a greeting.
Deep c l e a n s i n g,  exploring
accepting, while
becoming new, refreshed
in the precious moment.

p. malafronte (2010)

Stepping Away

Focus on your comings
 and goings
on how many times you
do something
for you.
Do you have to please
yourself
or everyone else
Step away and make it you
Beginning today.
p.malafronte (2010)