Five Wiseelders
Five WiseElders come together
hoping to complete their life circles
resonantly yin, right embodied
sacred light
resiliently yang, left enspirited
secular polypathic bright
Hearing emotions
before seeing to speak changing motions
of flow-strength, river currents spinningly deep
and winningly wide
to move Earth's deforested
un-glaciered mountains.
I asked them
and they asked me
and each other,
Would you have still come today
if you could only despair
of more win/lose narcissistic business
as monotonously patriarchal usual?
Then a cooperative memory test:
What are your two primal forces
necessary, although perhaps not sufficient,
for social
political
economical
psychological
neurological
ecological
theological change to win yang
win yin experience?
The liberty of prophetic win/lose Crisis
and security of past mutually win/win LovingExperience
now extending from womb toward tomb
in collaboratively somber
summary gloom.
I am already old,
we not so suddenly notice,
if we want to choose a more synergetic EarthLife,
yang/yin love,
left/right resilient balance,
Then we have already aged into our shared climate
of Crisis.
Few more procrastinating uncourageous choices
remain for our aging lack of curiosity.
Remaining time is
and is not
our warmest friend.
Urgency feeds our critical win/win
active climate of resonance-seeking change.
This space,
this partial and potential fire-circle
full of WiseElders
for healing ourselves
by helping to cooperatively heal despairing Earth
invites a resilient sanctuary,
a sacrament uncovering co-passioned place
timelessly sacred WinSelf/WinOther opportunity
to regain our interdependent non-violent communal grace
of bilateral here/now
yang/yin
left/right
business as appositioned usual
Left-brain dominance without
also Right-brain integral prominence within
no fundamentalist saint or sinner
and yet also no liberationist
relativist
detached anti-theist
non-correlationist
merely coincidentalist prejudice
against old saints in crisis
and sinners of all ages
in circles for growing robust extending love
On Earth
within all EarthTribes
all spiraling reductions/inductions of well-wombed
through tombed
win/win enlightening life
Is not lose/lose dualdark death;
not yet
and not yet past
passed on
Wherever remains healthy life, undisputed
also lives active hope
discovering resilient love
uncovering this shared crisis
of well-aged mortality
communing
acting
breathing for immortal Earth repute.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2019
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