Guilt

Powerful emotion guiding our ways

Impacting action dictating days

Longing forgiveness release from pain

Searching for sunshine in pouring rain

 

Reflect on what you’re guilty about

Response awakens with a shout

Has your life been controlled by shame

Blame shaping actions diluting fame

 

Do what you do to quiet the guilt

So you feel better about your own quilt

Engaging expressions of righteousness

Keep others from knowing your real self

 

Is your life hidden under this guise

Does the shrouding keep you alive

Not pretty or squeaky clean

Cycle repeats a nightmare dream

 

Can you break the chain of your prison

Daylight awaits guilt subsides with decision

To reveal the life that’s yours to have

Let go of the guilt don’t feel so bad

 

What are the places where guilt is a driver in your life?

How might you change that?

What would be the benefit?

– Stewart Levine ©

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Written by

Stewart Levine

I have always been a seeker, always looking for the answers to what seekers ponder. I can remember Dr. Maxwell Maltz and Psychocybernetics; Dr. Carl Rogers On Becoming a Person. Moving through my legal training and practicing law the focus was always about people and how to better their lives. All that searching, reading, studying and introspective work culminated in this collection of daily readings for seekers.

My work in the world has progressed from fighting legal cases to mediating divorces to helping people understand the essentials of relationship and collaborating to these poems. How can we collaborate effectively and work with each other in harmony to create the world we seek. How can we mindfully enable this world to become a place that works for all.

My prayer is that through introspection using these poems as a guide we can all grow together in making the world the Heaven on Earth we all aspire toward.