MISSING TOGETHER

Today I listened to your voice
But heard beyond the words.
Seeing beyond the words
Moves towards a perceived fantasy
Made of the emotional essence
That creates the poetic observations.
Intuitive understanding is poetic,
Beyond the realms of rational ideology.
Air knowledge of earths wisdom
Gathered over time refines a being:
Not to shape a supernatural human
But the essence of true humility.
Not being able to understand
Yet to see and to feel ‘it’ as a thing –
As clear as the flowers of the garden,
Fresh and alive, named in latin,
Sourced in the actual light-space –
Requires poetic words of meaning.

The outsider wanting to be inside
Also sees the ways of self and other
Through the inner turmoil, resolved,
Ever moving towards unknown ends;
Perennial inability to satisfy with words
Yet constantly seeking understanding.
The insider not wanting to be outside –
Afraid of the cloudiness of rejection,
worried about the world beyond self –
Is manufactured to bury the unknown,
To allow functioning in the simple world,
In which the majority live becalmed.
Attempting to stay human and humane
Within the outside and inside of seeing,
Among those who choose to hide and play,
Whilst Constantly trying to describe the world
Is the lot of the inside outside poet
Who lives in the world of normality.

David Scanlon – England – (1963 - )

Scanlon. D (2017) Poetry for business: fired by passion. The Foolish Poet Press, Wilmslow, England. MISSING TOGETHER. Page Number 2.