Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck Poet Political Verse

Complicated Relationships

In complicated relationships,
and complex story telling
with regeneratively developing
and degeneratively undeveloping characters,

Personalities with powers to inflict harmful
punishment,
and healing
forgiveness,

Shunning
and harassment
or compassion
and integrity,

Neglect
and abuse
or co-investment
and solidarity,

Who switches from and
to positive
to negative
and back again
first
and last

Depends on where and when we choose to begin
our journey down selective memory's avenue
of speaking and reacting
and not listening and responding,

But this primary choice
of Alpha and Omega point
is further influenced
by what we choose to notice
and assume is perceivable,
malleable,
still alive

And what we fail to remember
to reconnect
to return again
to restore
What we omit
set aside
assume unchangeable as death
and poor pay disproportionate taxes

Among all our political and economic
civil and uncivil history of individual relationships
and family systems
and community networks
and EarthTribe polycultural species
come and gone before
on Earth's round revolving stages
of unfolding
unraveling

And refolding
reforming
redeeming
rewinding
regenerating 
restoring historic healthy relationships.

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