Breathing's Righteous Purpose
You and I may have decided
long ago,
and again more recently,
more ego-centrally
and now more large-stage ecopolitically,
that human life
has only that meaning and purpose we give ourselves,
we choose to embrace,
however ambivalently
And this dissociation from divine
theocratically orchestrated
organized
operational history and culture
leaves us free
but also isolated;
an individual without communally objective identity,
without sacred communion
orthodox portfolio.
You may have thought,
as did I,
a self-assigned secular purpose
could only be subjective,
as free as straight white male law
to become morally arbitrary,
Polypathic liberation without polyphonic natural harmonies
of graced
and original sacred objective intent--
sometimes punishing
and other times healing--
sometimes both retribution against subjects
and therapy with and for redeemed objects.
You may have thought God is as dead
as planet Earth will one day be,
and there is no realistic
natural or spiritual escape route,
No heavenly and eternal paradise Rapture
for the Elect,
much less the merely subjective NonElect
like wounded
isolated
mortal
autonomous ego
me.
I may have come to hope
we push through in-between
nihilistic subjective freedom
to choose win/lose competitions
between leftbrain wealth
of chosen verbal knowledge
and rightbrain health
of meaningful connection
back through generations
regenerating self and other selected purpose
to reconnect Father straight white male God
with MotherEarth CareTaker CreationGiver
Choosing DNA's secular/sacred
healthiest/wealth of opportunity
to choose vocational purpose
rejoining Earth's win/win CareTaker leftbrain intent
either/or
win or lose
with EarthMother's CareGiver rightbrain
composing interdependent CoPassion's
eco-habitual
co-operational meanings.
Co-relational left with right
is not necessary lapse
into merely subjective relativism,
as is either straight or ***** left yang dominance
without both equal and interdependent
right yin prominence.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2020
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