Justus Melting
Step out with me,
if you would be so kind,
on this melting island of ice.
Full-heated summer sun
feels good on backs and shoulders
and faces turned down and in to hunt,
to fish.
We start each day with gratitude
for warmth of light and life.
Empathize with polar bears,
or try to.
Not merely sympathize;
actually empathize,
step onto our icy place and time,
noticing ways bears bare our own lack of global justice
for them
and for ourselves.
Together,
we fear human rights and justice
are not ecojustice enough
to sustain optimized and inclusive life,
our Continuous Quality Improvement investments
with minimized risk of loss.
We live on a shrinking island
of hopelessly competitive despair.
We feel climatic heat melting our angry and fearful interior
and exterior landscapes of nutritional potential.
We fear drowning in an understory
of melting synergetic boundary waters,
unnatural systemic immersion,
swimming in an icy northern sea
of metamorphic adversity.
We hunger for a lost hunting paradise
of cooperatively beloving love.
We feel homeless unto a catastrophic miraculous death.
Death dreams in constellations of encultured space,
dynamic time invested in frequencies of place,
coincidental patterns,
gravitational rhythms,
co-operative flow...
Life is what we absorb each day,
invest in,
divest of each night.
Time is what regenerates future
and decomposes past.
Economic balance is found in nutrients we produce,
not toxins we consume.
Eco's blind justice:
ratios and rations
portions and proportions
entities and gives and dispossesses
rectifies and takes and coredeems
plants and harvests
winnows and composts
thins and nurtures
blames and praises
stimulates and responds
causes and effects and affects and infects and defects and reflects
dislikes and values
lives and decays
orders and confuses
confluates and dissonates
frowns down upon and within and smiles up and without
curses and blesses.
Would it not be good to balance justice
so everything adds up without remainder
double-bound smooth-structured perfection,
mutually justified margins
balancing all sides of any story and issue,
correctly aligned judgment,
a logically normative standard,
a natural law
inclusive of all Earth's living, breathing values and nutrients,
and elusive of all EarthTribal pathologies
and wilting economies,
failing gardens,
competing losers,
summer seared deserts
as polar bares?
Our ecotherapy calls for more cooperating gardens
and recreations,
and employment,
and lifestyles,
and revolving rhyming analogical norms
for economic behavior,
Golden practice and intent
emerging from ancient thread-naked transmillennialism.
Synergetic Polyuniversalism,
multisystemic analysis
of Nature balancing Time's right
to struggle and suffer
toward defining,
harmonizing,
effecting,
regenerating our network's root operating system
of, for, and by Time's equi-valent justice,
life's full-blooded DNA,
to site our most regenerative example
found in each neurally transpositional cell.
Awaking now,
to our melting ice home,
did we find this ecojustice,
or did RNA find and intelligently develop us,
or both somehow?
Only eternal remembered time's unfolding
will tell upon refolding.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2015
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