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Imagine you live in a daily environment where and when everything you like is already yours if you simply ask for this whatever with gratitude, and is more frustratingly ungraspable if you cannot acquire sufficient gratitude to ask. And, it doesn’t even matter whom you ask. So you need not be troubled by complexities, historically epic narratives, about who owns what, and who does not, because everyone you meet knows it is their vocation, it is among their reasons for being, to give you whatever you want, whenever you want it with sufficient gratitude. How might you respond to such power and riches, to both give and to receive such fertile perfection potential? How might we cooperatively rule our fertile rich black soils and sparkling clear clean rivers, and smile back at our mutually-held blue sky? And yet, these powers are not yet polypathically magical. You do not have powers to be someone else. You cannot look at a perfectly beautiful body and gratefully claim it as your own. You do have the power to speak and listen with each of those perfectly beautiful bodies and/or minds about how and why and when and where you treasure them, value them, and would become a mind and/or body exactly like theirs, an identical twin. You do have the power to ask them, with gratitude, to help you see and hear and smell and taste their beauty, but not to become their beauty for them. Becoming health and beauty powers with others grateful for our most intimate mutually grateful availability, vulnerability, cooperatively trusting accessibility, because your powers of acquisition are constrained only by this magic of mutual gratitude. Imagine, as you mature in LeftBrain dominance, the magic of mutual gratitude and its more paranoid secretive absence, when you were a child was simply Left/Right deep learning chemistry. Imagine how you might have heard, You can be anything you sufficiently desire to become as not so much, You can have whichever magical powers of acquisition you can imagine, but more like a child, We are continually becoming whom and what we wish for within an ecology of mutually trusting chemistry we call regard, and sometimes wonder, and even awe, and we are discontinuously becoming whom and what we do not wish for within a climate of paranoid overly acquisitive and competitive LeftBrain dominant pathology; this lack of RightBrain outflowing, nurturing, self-as-also-other regenerating gratitude. Imagine you live where and when all you can take in is ours to give each grateful trusting other. What happens in your imaginative chemistries when WinLose games of Keep Away revolt into WinWin games of Give Away, but only when productive for and consumptive of co-empathic gratitude?

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