UNDERSTANDING ME
~*~
I am born perfect without prejudice
I open my eyes in wonder and learn to judge
To judge myself most harshly of all
The clouds of judgement narrow my view
Blinded I collide with my prejudices
Stumble and fall, 
Bleed and scar.
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I open my eyes in wonder and learn not to judge
Still judge myself most harshly of all
Encounters force open the lids of Awareness
In repeated instances of molten emotion
And the dawning begins
As these crystals of enlightenment
Through their prisms undistort the truth.
~*~
Each day I am in awe
Of the process of unravelment in which I engage
I open my eyes in wonder and learn not to judge.
~*~
Trish O'Riley

 

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