Keeping House Of Commons Rules

One of the motives for owning property
for people who rent and find they dislike it,
is what they dislike is not choosing who rents
the space alongside them. They think....
'When I buy where I live then I will keep
my neighbours at a distance that suits me.',
as if money by itself could cover for a will
that lacks the power to change how we live.
But willpower gets a person only so far
in choosing who they keep a distance from
and the distance at which to keep them.

Nowadays I find the people I need to keep
my distance from, and set it firm, are family.
I don't own property like they do, I knew how much 
they were disappointed with how they made me,
where all that was left was cover up how it happened.

That distance I now keep from my family
is much farther than the physical distance
between the front benches in House of Commons
-two swords distance. 

The distance I now keep from family
is more like distance between the values
each side of The House of Commons keeps
-universes, multiverses, farther apart.   

The Sea Of Failure

The rails of the bridge
 fused to my hands, as they froze
and I was looking down on the river.

Time, tide and grit
-all had failed to form the pearl
of the will to live
and find comfort in shelter.

There was nothing left to reflect on.

My emptiest self woke up,
the emptiest 'me'; who I was
before family thought me into being.

I would soon be gone but no loss,
like the many millions before me.

The Blind Are Best Led By Their Own Blindness

When I first went to church, late in my teenage years,
it had to be a disaster. As a youth I was as blind to myself
and as blind to the nature of my family as anyone could be.
I will never forget though, what I now see as the sypmtom
being mistaken for the cause. 'Christianity' in that small town
was faith in life within tight boundaries; the 'Good News'
which was originally to strengthen  the enfeebled, the tired,
and the weak had become a comfort for the status quo.
'Don't be angry' was turned into a mantra because the fear
of turning over the social order would mean no order atall.

There was no cure for anger, and the curdled despair,
which was hid behind being owned as if you property. 

Optimum Distance For Both Sides In Relationships Is Important

I'll never understand how human birth families
think how they are they are the number one choice
for networking, for health, and for wealth
when the world is in a fragile state
and there are so many other kinds of bonds
which also create communities and networks
whose greater flexibility than family
and more forgiving nature is their strength.