b88 (3.2-2.2020): maybe we're all just tin men

maybe we’re all tin men ^[1]         
by t. inman

maybe we’re all tin men

shameless in our dance
praying, hoping, yearning for some love (or sweet romance)
maybe we’re all tin men
needy at our base
hoping someone out there can find something here (erase)
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•  the human ego (f.s.o.s.s*) constantly seeks to survive and thrive.
•  survival occurs when he can show (to himself) that he is separate.
•   thrival occurs when he can experience more than just survival.  he makes quid-pro-quo agreements (with other egos) to further prove his self-ness.

    separation <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Union

• the connections that are formed approach Union, a forbidden-fruit that ego cannot not desire, while (simultaneously) re-cognizing that Union means death (to the sense of separate self).  that is exactly what is so poetic about it.

one goes through life, Une-i-fying, when one could simply sit and experience his/her connection. 

the idea of namaste’ (or love, or marriage, or partnership, or teamwork-cooperation-coordination, etc.) allows one to dance in the symphony of connection – even as ego cannot permit 100% Une -- in this, the relative-world universe.

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[1] martino, j. (3.2-2.2020). maybe we're all tin men. book 88: marching into madness. © 2020 by joal martino.

[2] inspired, in part, by miranda lambert’s “tin man.”

* false sense of separate self