Drifters Faith and Saving Yourself

Drifters Faith

We each have within us

a natural will find what's true

and they say, my friend,

that while the seeker looks

for the water, the water looks

for the seeker in return.

You know, some people

are made in such a way

to have faith

that never shakes,

while others have

a drifters faith

that is built to forever

be on the move

questioning everything.

Everyone we happen across,

everything we each do every day,

all the things we feel, see and say,

and everything

we don't see, feel or say

are as so many miracles

in a vast ocean

of unlikely chance and happenstance

where probability dances near or distant

within the sea of endless possibility.

If you want to find

miracles happening right now

you have only to feel

your own breathing

and you have to look no farther

than the moon and stars at night

and the sun and clouds each day.

We each dance through our lives

to a grand symphony sung

with empty spaces and silence

and never set to paper.

Your own heartbeat keeps time

with the beat.

Search outward and see yourself.

Search inward

and see the Universe looking back.

I'll keep my drifters faith

traveling on day by day renewed.

I've found more

than I ever thought possible

and I've learned that just as

we each are alive in the world,

we all live in a world that is alive.

Dewey Dirks

Saving Yourself

There is only one person

who can save you

and that is yourself.

The only things you need

to save yourself from

are your own

fear and prejudice.

You overcome your

fears and prejudice

by learning to

care for yourself

as Mother Earth

cares for you.

When you learn

to have compassion

for your own shortcomings,

you also learn to have

compassion for the shortcomings

in everyone else

and all the world as well.

As your fears and prejudice

begin to subside

you'll become ever more aware

of many things that

you've been doing right all this time

and many things

that life has been doing for years

to help you along.

A lack of compassion for others

is a sure indication

of a lack of compassion

for yourself.

If you want to do your part

to save the world

you need only to set yourself right

after that everything

will fall into place.

Lighting the bright flames

of compassion in yourself

goes far in lighting

the flames of compassion

in all whom

you come into contact with.

In the fullness of time, you'll find

the world doesn't need saving

so much as it needs

to be loved.

Likewise, you'll come to find

that you don't need saving either.

What you need is to love

and to be loved.

Dewey Dirks