Exit Strategy

To prepare for final cosmic breath
exhaled

echoing first breath
inhaling
waiting to exhale

silent sacred pause 
for Earth's final soliloquy 

Terminating all humane
and inhumane futures,
healthy
and disturbing relationships,
elegantly excruciating ecstasy

Leaving hell
without receiving Heaven

Surrendering commitments
to health
and lack thereof

Future obligations
and past assets

Resigning from risks of love
without redesigning 
further life-health opportunities
for growth
profit
power
light
gladness
sadness

Thriving phat integrity
surviving clenched cultural chaos,
trying to move on
toward unmitigated peace
without restoring justice 
exit strategies

To give in
to unwoke,
embrace those hidden socialist
give-away
cooperative sacred economy dreams 
of distributing retiring funds
down toward drop dead zero,
and enjoy slimming poverty.

To give up any worries
about disempowering anomalies
and anti-christs,
witch 
and wizard hunts,
coloring too wildly unnoticed
outside contemporary lines
to do no harm to,
and feel most helpful for, 
future organic EarthTribe 
resilient regenerations

Choosing to wake up 
to say goodbye
to fear of death,
to instead actively intend farewell
with loving kindness 
for sacred Elder's repurposing life,
warm regard for mindbodied self
and trauma-surviving Others
still actively hoping to achieve
our cooperatively co-invested
panentheistic Win/Win
holonic mindbody spirit
compassionate nature

To not grasp and cling and hide
hedonistic hippy fantasies
due to fear of not sufficiently insuring
against personal loss;
to embrace becoming deep learning champions 
of curious bipartisan courage
even in these last democracy darkening days

To commit to my exit process as deeply
and fully
as I co-invested in my birthing process--
neither outcome involving my total control
of most intimate and integrally gendered situations
co-binary balance
hopeful persuasions
rich peak experience potential
for addiction
and aversion
and co-passion;

Both living and dying 
involve some range of choice-making
sometimes remembering
victimization
marginalization
systemic win/lose traumatization
always flowing painfully 
in-between full of hopeful opportunity
and emptiness of faithless risk
ignoring sacred EarthTribe's future

Especially regarding personal property
and superior anthro-properties
and especially NOT disregarding potential
for integral sacred relationships
transcending personal lifelines,
dipolar co-arising love
for last life's win/lose risks 
exposing tomorrow's win/win 
ego/eco-recentering opportunity

For a more curious exit strategy
peaking life as love
in fast gathering time
and now slowing peace-filling lanes
recycling seasonal 
multicultural 
multigenerational
enriching circles
emblazing encultured colors

To optimize health,
safety,
joy,
release,
freedom for Self and Others
in this final preparation 
for Great Transition's
final interdependent gift economy

Healthy and wealthy exit strategies
wisely pay compassion forward
to minimize trauma,
chronic stress,
deep shame anxieties,
depression,
sadness,
claustrophobia,
xenophobia,
stuckness,
faithlessness,
despair,
disorganic systems failure

To let go gracefully
with emotional intelligence

To not get spiritually lost
in physical and mental loss
of what was miraculous
and sacred
to ever have gained

To warmly embrace
and release
my turn to speak
and sing
and dance
and passionately communicate
continues to pass
one day in light/dark time

To strategically exit
as I have,
at my wisest and best,
entered 
and re-entered each dawn
to listen with compassion
and learn with active curiosity

To clear a sacred space
and sufficient time 
for Others to resonate timefully,
tunefully listen
soulfully feel
more compassionately rhyming reason 
win/win together
than falling carelessly apart
stuck in win/lose
hunt or starve 
through ripening
and wintering seasons

To prepare for final cosmic breath
exhaled per minute diem
echoing first breath inhaled
penetrating sustained

Exit strategies
waiting to finally exhale,
pausing EarthTribe's requiem.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2023



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