Power or Strength

We live in a world where desiring power is considered admirable, where wanting to remain in power seems an understandable excuse for saying and doing anything, and where taking power is considered by some an acceptable objective. Does what is happening right now in our world perhaps give us pause for thought?

Looking through the clouded eyes
That many use to view this world,
Power is might;
To take control
To cede things
To our will.
We would not
Describe power
As overcoming,
For that seems weak,
Power is too often
Used over, not in.

Yet the desire to have power
Is born out of fearing its lack,
Not from might.
It’s a veneer.
The more brutal
It’s actions
The greater
Chasm of fear
It’s there to conceal.
A mere disguise,
A self-deception,
Emptiness inside.

Looking through less fearful eyes
At ourselves and also others,
We see strength
Is not the same.
It does not seek
To control,
To take away
Another’s rights
Another’s choices.
It’s not unkind
It does not demand
It only stands firm.

Strength is seen in a response
Not in an initiation
It is born
From certainty.
True strength is found
In challenge,
Even in loss.
No hole inside.
There may be pain but
There’s also love.
Strength is found within,
Power is without.

Share D’All
April 2022

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