Grand Priorities
What fills your goals, son?
I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...
If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a bit...
Let me ask again:
Noticing you are concerned about long-winded
and -winding
and -whining
and -worrying despair
regarding personal and commercial transportation issues,
[but not articulating trauma tissues,
nor shadowy personal wealth issues]
What is your primary prize [price, pride]
co-empathic health and happiness and blue skies
and deepest hope and anticipation
for Heaven on Earth,
sacred Son?
I told you, Dad!
I'm gonna boost my sales,
[and preferably not your costs,
losses,
more trauma dramas]
Gonna get a legit paycheck
[and possibly save some of it?]
Gonna rent a nice crib
[and keep it nice--
not all skanky ashtray]
Wanna spend more time with my daughter
[practicing mindfulness
and music
and movement therapies]
And buy her everything
[sacred Earth can resiliently afford]
And get you a new electric car
[Bless you!
But more credible
if higher on this list]
And that damn e-bike
[Glory hallelujah;
Free at last,
Free at last!]
you're always pushing at me
and...
If I may interrupt
to process for a minute...
I would like to share with you
some things I have learned
from hard and bumpy bi-recycling
round and round experience
Lack of mind exercising focus
on how sacred Earth
speaks to us
with co-empathic respect
and dignity
may cause our young excesses
to miss our own heartfelt
Need to empower health
and deep
deep
nearly breathless listening
for shared values,
Co-enlightening robust wealth
Such lack of deeply sacred meaning-fullness
defaults to secular Words
[of commercial delivery
and fair-trade enterprise]
avoiding sacred recreative resonant
therapies of full-choir resounding song
and gospel dance [sometimes intimately horizontal]
Emotionally up and down
peak and valley
outside natural and inside spiritual
neuro-systemic experience
[healthier when co-empathic
and wealthier when co-passionate]
of unconditional regard [attachment, appreciation, anticipation]
+0/-1-squared universal binomial [unitarian prime equity]
WuWei Yang/Yin
bipartisan balancing
GoldenRule priorities
[less vengeful thoughts
about getting mine
before you take my ride-share,
again]
For deepest
and widest
and wisest sacred meaning,
my Beloved Son
[YoungStraightUrbanBlack
LeftBrain labeled,
boxed
contained
reserved
margined
stigmatized
secularized
commodified
framed],
Felt meanings,
more than even thoughtful purposes,
may be uncovered [discovered, recovered, miscovered, anti-overed]
while keeping our bicamerally intelligent minds
[stretching from win/win promise
to lose/lose threat
of overwhelming cognitive/affective dissonance]
Full of co-governing co-investments
[in healthy win/win bodies
with wealthy spirited
indigenous right/left-balancing minds].
What are your goals this year
to go and grow green organics,
including mythical edibles?
[well-capitalized sacred grass]
Green
cooperative community co-invested
polyculturing therapies
for slow-growing ecological
global win/win priorities
for transporting
cooperatively mindful wealth
In other words
merging silent wisdom
with more experientially felt Golden Words...
[and worldviews
favoring healthy win/win sacred tools,
so not lose/lose desecrating dogmatic weapons]
You will not be young
and strong [and bull-headed]
forever
with healthy lungs
and gleaming white real teeth
You will not be free
ever
with disabling
unresolved Post-Trauma WhitePrivileged Anxiety
with a maternal history
of Obsessive-Approach/Compulsive-Avoid
bipolar double-bind disorder
and alcoholism on all four cannabis-fed
sacred fractal sides
descended from desecrating racist
sexist
homophobic dissociative
apartheid memories
of darkly ego-dissonant enslaved histories
chronicling multi-generational despair,
without personal lifespan right
to merciful suicide,
forever damned
to Straight White Othering survival.
You will not be happy
dark marginalized
bullied
victimized
stigmatized
by a social educational system
that has stolen from you
and lied about you
and decided, yet denied,
TheMan knows all worth knowing
about dark-hearted you,
before Lives That Really Well Capitalized Matter
even met you
And yet
will never appreciate you
for these trauma narratives you bring
that they couldn't
on their worst dismembering day
silently absorb.
What are your most serene
and sacred
not so secret goals?
Recovering GoldenRule faith
we are more than worthless side-by-side survivors
without political or capital merit
[learning all we can
from our dissociated
anxious
trauma-infested sins
and therapeutic opportunities]
Resist assumed personal demerits
of natural birth
and/or nurturing experience
defying your unquestionable right
to continue living
[breathing
beating
loving,
seeing
hearing
tasting
feeding
touching
smelling
breeding
feeling neurosensory climaxes
and also ran
healthy co-relationships,
wealthy multi-generational
resilient co-passions].
It is difficult not to notice
all your valuable trauma liabilities
as also potential win/win assets
inside your ego's outside ecotherapeutic opportunities
[like trauma management
in nonviolent arts
and systemic health and learning sciences].
Stay focused on Earth's sacred prize,
my son,
like your surprise,
I surmise,
were you to grow your practice
of sublime mindfulness [black-white
not not copassionate]
enlightening sacred integrity's potential
[relationships not quite so white-faced evangelical]
MotherEarth invokes much better walk-along
cooperative therapies
singing in silent forests
[dancing naked in-and-outing tides]
Her sacred wisdom
I have found
does not resonantly compete
for mere sufficient transportation
to exhaust all fired up resources
chronically win/lose stressed
Perhaps like LeftBrain talk
talking [in endless commercial]
ego/eco balancing therapists
wandering through a win/win wanna-be
bipartisan healing world...
You awake?
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2023
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