July 27, 2012
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power
who has it
who takes it
whose mind is wrapped around
the idea of belonging
to the elite of
who deserves it-
perhaps those who have and take
deserve it the leastbut sometimes we give
and let have
in which case
we are the sorry souls
and we get what we deserve
as we watch those we have
given the gift of powersmite us
everything i’m currently pondering seems to have someone or someones with power at the center. i’m making an effort to put my center back together in a different way. and maybe i’ll find my invisible airplane while i’m there.
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I always believed that I have the power over myself (it doesn’t feel like it though)
*pondering*
you go girl!
Sometimes power is a double edged sword. You can take it back. Don’t get smitten.
May Uncle Buck be with you!
Great poetry. My mind is now a pretzel. Whereas before it was a succulent beef stew.
@PrisonerxOfxLove - hm. i think i’d rather have succulent beef stew. is that the point?
@ZSA_MD - working on it. i have no desire for power over anyone else.
@xdeelynnx - i let things upset me too much
@promisesunshine - The point is the power of your poetry.
@PrisonerxOfxLove - then the correct response is thank you.
People with power and the way it’s distributed in the world has always been my pet peeve. Pride, human arrogance and ego all tie in to power. My teacher says there are only two paths one can choose from in this life: power and love.
I’m sure you’ll find your center.
@runisom48 - i think this is absolutely correct. the abuse of power surrounding me (us) right now makes me want to run away.
@songoftheheart - i need to find a happy place. it’s eluding me.
i just saw it written somewhere that “the power belongs to those who care the least”… not sure if i can go with that, but it stuck in my mind and i pondered (weak and weary). i’ve come to the conclusion that the powerheads are arrogant and very unhappy, even if they’re tops in their field and billionaires. i think having a heart is the more important. caring. and if it gets us smitten, then at least we can allow ourselves to “feel”, which is what some power people cannot allow themselves to do. spoken with a certain bias. OF COURSE. ~ your poem is right on, and beautiful as always.
good to see you writing, seems like it’s been awhile, or maybe it’s just that this week has taken years.
Power corrupts, or maybe it just makes us forget that there are consequences–too many people confuse wanting with deserving as it is.
@promisesunshine - Sorry things are making you want to run away. Your happy place is always there inside you. Step outside for a moment and take a moment to enjoy the beauty, and take a deep breath. Choose the path of love. ((((hugs)))) I hope whatever you guys are dealing with will settle down soon.
@be_the_rain - a church organization once told me that they don’t accept people who volunteer for things and at the time i was offended by that. (because i used to be a professional volunteer) i’m starting to see the point. volunteers seem to have ulterior motives.
@lanney - it has been a very, very long time. smack me upside the head if i ever get any power. (which ain’t gonna happen)
@songoftheheart - i might need a good night’s sleep. and to be done with higher education- school not the place for me.
Food for thought… When you find the plane, can fly by and pick me up and we can head to Never Never Land…
@Zoz36 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb7F8cNF5lQ&noredirect=1
I was a people pleaser until age 74, but I still have those tendencies. I am also passive.
I gave my power away long ago.
I have too many masters. Some people cannot handle the power. I am not a leader. I prefer to follow. In the military, though everyone says they are terrible, it worked out well because people were accountable. These new people are jacking everything up with no consequence. They are like kids in a candy store. And then what is going to happen? I need someone to report too. All they are doing istaking the perks without the actual job.
@ANVRSADDAY - i surrndered as well, but it is never enough for them. I am mortal human. I gave them the cookie and now they have to direct me in a way that is productive.
@ANVRSADDAY - i want now power, i just don’t want to be powerless.
@Colorsofthenight - taking the perks without doing the job. that part makes sense.
Power is relative. There are some that believe that they have power because they can demand things be done. They however are mistaken. True power is in the giving not the taking. Thus giving love is more powerful – and most deadly. I’m killing them with kindness and it is working! hehe!
@murisopsis - give love. yes, indeedy. and that’s where my strengths lie. my daughter reminded me today that the kids who i help teach love me. and i love them. and what this professor thinks of my abilities in this contrived environment makes no ultimate difference. as long as i’m content to keep my current job, which i was never certain i was going to leave anyhow. (i’m babbling)
@ANVRSADDAY - i meant “no” of course.
power is a funny thing. I think some people who have it don’t realize they have it and some people who want it don’t have it because they don’t. I’m reminded of something that I think Plato said about the philosopher king being the best. Because they don’t want the power, so they do what they’re supposed to do with the power – as in actually govern instead of just feed their own egos. Of course, since they don’t want to be in charge, they don’t run for office.
@leaflesstree - wouldn’t it be a beautiful world if ego were unimportant.
You get deep sometime………like a pure spring well.
@promisesunshine – there would certainly be less political ads.
i like this
I think there are a lot of people who want to take someone’s power. I’ve met people who are like that, but don’t let anyone take your power.
@UncCharlie - thank you.
@Shining_Garnet - it’s hard to learn. and then there are the people who say one thing and then do another.
@thespaceinmybed - thanks. and thanks for the rec
@leaflesstree - oh my golly. that would be heaven. ok, maybe literally.
love the wonder woman reference.
How did I miss this. A poem is a good way to collect one’s thought and feelings. Freud said that people seek power, money or sex, (actually mostly sex as power and money were used to get sex). Don’t think on this too long as it can ruin a good weekend. Most who have power misuse it and those who gain power often become addicted to power moves. Nonethiless, carry on. (that is a pun, hope you get it)
@vexations - i’m always carrie-ing on, in one way or another.
@be_the_rain - “the power belongs to those who care the least” Interesting quote. made me think a lot. I could care less to have ‘power’ but my nature to love so openly seems to give power to others so easily. It seems though, the more confident I am in who I am, the less I could care about the power struggle.
I guess power can be perceived but not actually obtained. Especially power over someone. I may feel that someones lack of caring and my abundance of care means that they can control me by causing me grief, but ultimately I am not concerned with who feels they have power, I know my strength in love is the best foot forward and my compassion makes me stronger even in the eyes of the so called powerful who feel its a weakness.
It takes a POWERFUL person,
of their own confidence, to purposefully put them self in a place of
vulnerability. If you ask me, the more you care, the more power you have
=] Power to change the world!
@xXrEMmUsXx - http://promisesunshine.xanga.com/764482405/star-steps/ perhaps this shows that i agree with you? temporary setback over here, is all.
@promisesunshine - My videos and the woods are the places I go to hide away and recover. I haven’t been to the woods in a while because of work but soon work will be over and I can go there again. As for my videos, there are a few that can absolutely put me in invincible mode, heal me or take me to a place where I can renew myself. Of course I have to get home first so I can watch them.
@runisom48 - can’t find it right now. music isn’t doing it. i have no time for art or writing. lost.
@promisesunshine - oh that’s bad. i don’t know what you do but maybe you can call off sick for a few days and get a break from the crap.
@runisom48 - 5 more days and i’m done with this particular bullshit.
oooo. I like this. nice poeming.
It’s good to be/feel empowered. My thought…
interesting thinking, here. of course there are different kinds of power. wish those with good personal and centered power were the social and political leaders. but, then, that kind of power doesn’t seek power of the political sort. service isn’t politics, anymore.
@plantinthewindow - i agree. our political leaders are in it for the power (and money) and not for service to country. makes me wonder why we elect them. this was a reaction to two powerful people in my life, who i have since realized are my employees. so they can bite me. (but it still hurts)
@distractedbyzombies - i’m working on it. you?
@promisesunshine - I’ve been guilty of the same – giving people power and influence over me, and over how I feel about myself. trying not to do that, anymore.
@plantinthewindow - we can support each other in those weak times. (but not have any power about it. ha)
I like this. It is hard to say when to blame myself though. I often beat myself up for not sticking up. I think I have the potential to do many things, as most people, but also as most people, I just don’t know where to start, and I am only ‘smart’ when it’s too late.
@PocketfulOfDreams - i’m not sure that being smart can be too late. of course i’d say that. this was written 3 days after something happened that rocked my world and made me feel powerless. but really, i think when we can think after the fact, the odds are good that eventually we’ll think during. i hope.