Beyond expectations (13/12/2011)

We can always blame others;
anything and anybody that exist
outside our hearts.
Circumstances can be the cause
the origin, the only source
leading to the birth of Misery.

Things have been set in stone and giant boulders
engraved with the word:
Expectations.
They bleed darkness on the grounds
it would suffice that
we bathe in them and not get out ever.

Then there are the mountains
where over millions of years
they continue to grow.
Have you ever tried building sandcastles
with your bare hands
and nothing else?

When a small pile comes up
we yearn to build mountains
and beautiful castles for the birds to rest in.
Then the waves come crashing
the piercing sounds of the seagulls
and all is back to what it has always been.

The mountains
millions of years in age
beckons to us to catch up with them.
We try to-
scooping up the golden dust furiously
only to have the winds and waves reduce them to dust once more.

And then the wind whispers in our ears
with the ebb and flow of the tides providing rhythm
and the birds and laughter giving notes to music
"Isn't it as lovely
to be as flat as the ground
to be what we truly are?"

Once people understand that
they learn to contend with
feeling the sands in their hands.
Others still want to build sandcastles
but they would construct them
according to their realms of imagination.

We don't need to be mountains
we don't have to drown in the overwhelming darkness
of the stones and boulders.
We don't have to blame circumstances
and any other being/thing in this world
for what we are.

It is as lovely
to embrace ourselves
and be who we want to be.