He Curiously Listens
He listens for my integrity;
our highest and best destiny
As if interred in our children's
still living oral tradition
Then captured in post-millennial
historic textbooks
on cooperative eco-politics
Illustrating what I did
and did not do
for/against future regenerous climate health
when these same children experience
their children's
children
appearing resilient
against degeneratively persistent
health wealthing doubt.
What I have imagined doing
win/win with others
I have seldom done.
What we have cooperatively planned doing
win/win with and for and of others
we have seldom undone.
What I have not imagined doing
by my self
investment
he could not easily imagine
to proclaim health
resiliently accomplished
ReInvesting more
in what would otherwise remain personal turf
behind some gilded
and tightly closed
front door
of alternating deep peaceful solitude
and further anticipation
of comfortably laureled silence,
Enough,
at last,
he said
With my righthand
lonely panic
writing in lamenting internal voices
Waiting for his first large-staged break
into an appreciative and prepared audience
to receive each other's great health-systemic wisdom
wealthing win/win networks
As transubstantiated
by our own integrity experience.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2020
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