I Used To Smoke...

 I used to smoke cigarettes

and when there was emotional discomfort experienced

they would be used as a buffer. 

On cessation of the smoking, 

the emotions without this buffer kept going, 

further and deeper in penetration and strength. 

It was holding on to presence

that was the main tool to ride the emotional waves. 

But still, other buffers are created over time 

and sometimes being present to emotions 

can be very difficult and painful even with presence

if there is real suffering also.

But herein lies the possibilities of transmutation

and the progress of regeneration - 

or you could perhaps say the growth of the soul, 

the molecular world. 

~M

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