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The Rumble Heard in the Streets



There’s a rumble in the streets that sounds like distant thunder. Do not fear it, for it is a natural sound, not my kind’s fouled noise. It is Love, the triumph over self,  Love’s art bringing me back to my beginning. It is not a tale of woe and murder, it is a drama that’s been waiting in the wings for Love’s triumphant cue to summon me forth! It’s the thunder of Love rolling joyously across the globe.

I’ve listened to fear long enough. I’m tired of my weeping, exhausted of pulling out my hair and gnashing my teeth, exhausted of my dreams being written as tall tales instead of one great towering truth. I’ve begun to sense the reckoning within myself, the longing to remove the foul noise I’ve planted within which has pierced Love and turned me in on myself.

I’ll need steady hands and head to remove the clamor that’s lodged deep inside, that’s flouting my reason, that’s bringing me to fear another, causing me to destroy goodness, leaving me afraid of Love. I am one! I am not separate from life or Love, I am a part of life and I am being summoned to correct my Loveless morph, my degradation of the spirits that dwell within my kind's shells.

It will not be easy, but the reward lies in the knowledge that I’ve achieved my intended purpose. I’ve begun in earnest, let me continue the wave of peace and let me march onward toward the immense light that waits within me. Let me remember my failures and forgive myself of my transgressions, that I might then recall my kinship.

Love has begun to rise out of me, it must be considered most precious for it is required for the eartH's survival. Love cannot be divided or parsed at my bidding. Let me implement this fresh and imperative calling as if it were the solemn oath that I’ll never again break or allow to be spoiled by greed. Let my voice be heard! Let my Love be seen! Let the Heart(H) take the stage like never before!


© 2011 by mark prime



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