Do You Feel The Pressure

Do you feel the pressure of life around you?
The feeling of time slipping by as things get older?
The feeling of loss before answers are found?

Do you feel the pressure of love around you?
The feeling left behind when someone leaves you?
The feeling of hope when someone recognizes you?

Unzip the PRESSURE and you will find the HARD truth.
One that fills you—gives you all you can take.
It goes deeper, and deeper, and expands—
Beyond the physical joy—
Beyond the loneliness,
Beyond the recognition.

The hard truth is—
There is no pressure!
No room for rejection!
Pressure is never what you think.
Blink—and you will feel it: the silence,
The space between the thinking of things,
Things that do not need to be thought about.

Pressure is a wild cry for the ego to understand.
But without the need to understand, it has nowhere to go.
And without a place to go, the pressure cannot build.
And therefore is not pressure,
But just thoughts—
Silly thoughts
That love erases
Back to sleep.