The Ghost Inside You

The people you love become ghosts; everywhere you go they share a place inside you. In this way you keep them alive and they live forever. As each generation goes on we fill our minds and souls with our ancestors, whispering secrets and truths. But you have to listen...you will never go wrong, as long as you can listen. Not everyone will hear, they interpret a ringing or buzz. This is wrong, this is your birthright shining through, and yet you ignore it.

Life is more than a race to raise the numbers in a bank account, or create as many offspring as you can. It isn't about violence or mindless sex. We are those who hold the future of a planet within our grasp and yet we squander. Our ancestors scream at us and we just turn the music up just a little louder. We ignore our hearts desires and commit acts of spite. Humanity cannot hear what is held within his own heart and soul.

Every time you turn away from your past, more of it dies off. Eventually you will be truly alone and out there in the void it is quiet...so quiet it assaults you. Presses into you like the rush of a waterfall, squeal of a train or chatter of Wall Street. Out there is the never ending silence that is our future and we accept this.

We shall continue to sail the seas of greed and capitalism until the wind dies and we are lost. Each tick of the clock is a moment counting down closer to our own end, but it stops no one. I will stand here on the beach, having looked within and found peace. The soft chatter of our essence pouring out into the world and I will know myself.

I am not perfect and therein lay perfection. We are imperfect beings in a wobbling universe, making bad decisions with half-baked ideas. We live to be flawed; we live to be less than sublime. To be perfect is boring; we would destroy ourselves even faster if we were idyllic beings. This is the one truth that all should understand. That we are not perfect and in doing so we shoulder the burden of life and continue forward proud. Killers and thieves are as they should be and the kind hearted as well. Fault no one for their nature, for it should match the desires of all creatures.

I know life hurts, feed on that and let it empower you. Let it make you more than you are. It is fuel for your passion. If you are newly single, then don't hate the man or woman and don't hate yourself. You are beautiful and right and there are others. You will think of those who came before but it becomes less and less as you continue to shine. As you soar through the silence and dark, there will be another star. You will become a binary system of love that will last through the eons.

Gather your loved ones and hold them close, if you do then you too will carry on into the future. If we can change and learn to reach inside then the wisdom of the ages will be ours to mold the future.