Positive / negative?

Who is to say what is a negative feeling?

Other than one you don’t want

Or can’t bear to deal with

One that interrupts your infantile view of a world that should be just one way?

Or one that disturbs your idea of what you had in mind for today?

What is negative is just that which may make you feel black and heavy for a time

You resist the blackness and the heaviness

But does it truly go away?

Or just into hiding?

Some days the world is heavy

And it is dark

Some days, many days

Things don’t go our way

Maybe a shift of awareness may be different to saying

To the so called ‘negative/ feelings

“go away!”

Maybe they want you to  invite them in and ask them what they have to say

In giving them a time and space you even may

Stop the demon banging on the door with a lead weight

Maybe heaviness just wants a place to rest

So it can drop the burden you forced it to carry in labelling it or pushing it away

Positive or negative doesn’t it all depend on your view?

On what you accept and want you reject?

Am I playing devil’s advocate?

Well yes fallen angel

You are just a part

Of the wholeness of this experience we call ‘life’

And sometimes feelings are not meant to be reasoned away

The more freely you accept them

The quicker they pass away