THE POWER OF CONNECTING... FACE TO FACE AND EYE TO EYE

Human to human. Eye to eye. Heart to heart. Authenticity. Nothing calms our fear or takes the sting out of pain the way a smile and a gentle touch can. Nothing reparis distrust more trapidly than two souls looking into each other's eyes and rebuilding the platform of authentic trust together. Building a sound civilization requires us to be humane.

Here's a poem from my book, HUMAN INTERRUPTED: The Social Crime Against Humanity.

Safe Harbor

Dropping all the fairytales

and all the dots that end sentences

Dropping the copycats

and pretentious pretendings

my footsteps dance across an open, endless mind

my vistas, my silences, my sounds

allow my words

to flow in verses

I sing

Hey, over here

safe harbor

over here

world citizen

over here

home is over here

hey,

here I am

free of the punctuation

no more old dresses and barricaded eyes

I see you through my open door

Without your punctuated skins

I see you

thinking you are barely standing

crooked bones

limp lost eyes

cracked lips

barely breathing

famished to the tip of your toes

wafting left then wafting right

so tenaciously hanging on a wish’s thread

barely

so unsure of your ways

hey I wave

over here I grin

my smile wraps softly around you

easing your barely there

steadying your barely breathing

watering your parched heart

take your time I say

safety first

fresh water is under the autumn tree

over there

slough off those crusts

bathe your skin

and sip slowly while you can listen to the songs from Forever

do take your time

to savor the water and the autumn tree

to shed that cavalier whatever

and those musty never evers

and i cant’s

nothing is forbidden now

so let it go and rest

cradled by the fresh autumn tree

whispering without endings

recovering from the forgetting

Step forward

when you feel ready

and

do come in

it’s safe here

changeling

to unwrap the cocoon

shed the chrysalis

and stretch your sinews

inside unpunctuated phrases

this is your remember time

your refreshing the forever time

goodbye

cavalier whatevers

goodbye

to those musty nevers

and crooks and kinks and tears

welcome

gentle butterfly with two earth feet

you are ready

to unlock your dance upon forever

and freshen the legends

welcome

butterfly with two earth feet

do

come

in

@2015 Roshanna Evans