*NEW* Grocery Store | Deep Thinking while Shopping for Oranges

Grocery Store. We explore deep life truths in this light-hearted poem while going down the produce aisle.

Everyday moments like grocery shopping can unlock our divine nature if we allow them to, but don't forget to pay your bill... :)

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Transcript

Lauren M

One lecture I was listening to, he talks about the Bible and how it is a metaphor. The resurrection, all that is a metaphor for us literally giving birth to ourselves.

To all the new listeners, welcome to So Real Poetry. I am the poet known as Lauren. And to all our returning listeners, welcome back fam! Let's hop into this week's poem. 

Went to the grocery store, 

wanting nothing more 

than an orange or chips galore. 

Instead, wandering aisles, 

trying to understand why

life follows a certain pat-ter-ren.  

So tired from within. 

At the grocery store.

Oh, I do implore 

to explore this grocery store,

refusing to go home.

Cause home is not where I'm from.

Lost and feeling undone. 

Wishing I could

literally be this plum. 

Why did I come here? 

This is no fun. 

Grocery Store Clerk

You mean Food Lion? 

Lauren M

No, I mean the third star from the sun.  Let's renegotiate.  

Grocery Store Clerk

You want to haggle over fruit?  All sales final.  This, isn't the real market.  

Lauren M

No, I want to change my soul contract. Maybe I'm not who you think I am. 

Maybe my destiny is really 

meant for some other I am. 

Neville got me feeling leveled, 

decoding the Bible even

through contents disheveled. 

His lecture on I am

 making so much sense. 

It's got me feeling like this

world is a lot less dense. 

I am who I am. 

The I am.  

The creator. 

Master levelator. 

Built from the same stuff 

inside me and you.

The source of all, 

that same I am,

 the same light from which

 we have all been called.  

Grocery Store Clerk

9.59.  

Lauren M

Excuse me?  

Grocery Store Clerk

Your total is 9.59. 

Lauren M

Oh.  

Grocery Store Clerk

Cash or card? 

So, this poem was actually a lot of fun to create.  This poem is about, so for me, I'm not, I'm not sure about the rest of you out here, but I am a pretty deep thinker. Even the people who I would call friends, they don't really know me. And so,  realistically, I, when I'm out in public, I am usually not there lately.

As far as my thinking. And so I've been on a pretty intense spiritual journey for the last couple of years with the most intense periods happening, literally as I'm recording this podcast,  this particular poem is, I wanted it to be a little more lighthearted because I have a capacity to go pretty deep.

And I realized that I wanted to play on that, you know what I mean? Like, usually when I'm in the grocery store, is sometimes when I'm having the deepest, most esoteric  thoughts. And so,  I played on the Neville Goddard “I AM”  lecture, which if you've never heard of Neville Goddard, he was a very, prominent and popular speaker, writer and mystic from like the 1940s to the 1960s. And he's got a lot of great material out there. You should check out. 

One lecture I was listening to, he talks about the Bible and how it is a metaphor. The resurrection, all that is a metaphor for us literally giving birth to ourselves. And so he talks about in the bible when Jesus is speaking about “I am the I am” he's referring to us, the listener. The point in that is for us to discover our own “I am” inside. It is my belief that we all have the creator inside of us, the creative spark inside of us, that we are also creators. 

You take that how you want to, but I'm discovering the Goddess within me. And I highly suggest if you're listening to this, that you try to discover the God or the Goddess or however you define your creative spark in you.

Because that, that's the journey that I'm on. And so, when I'm in the grocery store, I'm usually like looking for fruit. So Oranges was a great play on that. I just thought it would be really funny and cute to kind of play on how deep I think sometimes because It's wild in my brain. But yes, that's what that poem was about. The way that I created that poem was I woke up in the middle of the night and uh Just wrote it. That seems to be how a lot of these poems were created And so,  I just went with that.

I've tried not to judge myself with my creative process because it's not gonna look like yours. And yours is not going to look like mine. Unless it does, and that's cool. But, you know, we have to stop judging our creative processes. We just need to get out here and create. That's it, period. And so this week's journal prompt is,

In what ways do you allow yourself to create unfiltered? Meaning, do you judge your creative process at all? Or do you just take what comes and let it flow? And if you do judge your creative process, why do you think that is?  

Thank you so much for vibing out with me this week. It has truly been my pleasure. If this poem resonated with you and you wanna tell me how you feel, please drop me a comment.

I love your comments, and if you just need more so real poetry in your life, you can find me on Instagram or YouTube at So_Real_Poetry.  

As always take care of yourselves and I'll see you next Sunday for more Poetry Gold, because it's So Real Poetry. 

*All Poetry featured are original works by Lauren McNeil, not to be duplicated or re-purposed without prior consent.*