‘Rejection Undone’ (Sinking/Dead Body Visions)

He who ignores discipline comes to poverty and shame but whoever heeds correction is honored.—Proverbs 13:18

 Rejection Undone 
 

I'm not going to worry
I'm not going to try
I've given up
the vestibule
I've given up
the cry
 
I'd never even considered
being part of the dart
stabbing my own mother's heart
just to fit in
with the cart
 
I'm not going to feel sorry
I'm not going to say
good-bye
I've given up
on slobbering drool
I've given up
on asking why
 
I'd never ever surrender
I'd instead
wear the cuffs
I would have never
given her up
and I did scream:
'that's enough'
 
I'm going to be
part of history
I'm not going to sway
in their giving up
in die
 
I've given up
being the blind fool
I've given up
trying to understand
those who easily abuse
I damn-right refuse
for them...curl up
and lie
 
I've learned the secret
to the mystery
you can't hold me down‒
in your misery
or hold me accountable
for your broken
unhealed self
or put me on a shelf
 
my mother taught me well
‒not to adhere
to cards dealt
to fight...get myself
off the shelf
 
I listened to her actions
as I watched her suffer
rejection
she taught me not to stay
too long
in self reflection
she taught me the 'Way'
and to speak
what I had to say
‒even if they all
walk away
 
I'm part of the last generation
not wanting to be a part
of the reflection‒
who settled for rejection
for we refuse
to be part
of the collection

(May 27, 2021)―‘Rejection Undone’ was written in 2020. David chose it for these visions. I have two in which to share with you. A real-time vision and a meditation/prayer vision. Both seem so surreal to me and they make me cry, but He, that would be God, wants them written and given.

Real-time visions. I’ve written about them before. The first came soon after the visions of August 2019. Sometime before this, we experience an earthquake. It was a minor quake rolling off of the one that had taken place in California. But for me it was absolute. To feel the Earth move beneath you is really scary. The light fixtures in my condo moved, glasses rattled. So when my bed shook, I thought we had had another one. We did not. It was my first real-time vision. After I felt the bed shake, the word unstable came. It happened again months later. He, that would be God, shook my sofa…again unstable. Then one day I was on my walk and the sidewalk moved. Not literally for everyone else, but for me literal. It was very unsettling. I actually extending my arms to gain stability. Then I noticed all the cars just continued, no one noticed. Unstable. Then one day He had me walk on one of the floating docks here at the lake and then told me to close my eyes and turn…shaky, He said.

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