Melting Ice
Step out with me,
if you would be so kind,
on my melting island of ice.
Full-heated summer sun
feels good on our backs and shoulders
and faces turned down and in to hunt,
to fish.
We start this day with gratitude
for warmth of light
and powered life.
Empathize with polar bears,
or try to.
Not merely sympathize;
actually empathize,
step onto their/our natural icy place and time,
noticing ways bears bare our own lack of global justice
for them
and for ourselves.
Together,
we fear human rights and justice
are not Earth just enough
to sustain optimized and inclusive life
and Continuous Quality Improvement investments
with minimized risk of loss.
i feel like we live on a shrinking island
of hopelessly competitive despair.
I feel climatic heat melting our angry and fearful interior
and exterior landscapes of nutritional
just right and left proficient potential.
I fear drowning in an understory
of melted cooperative cultural boundary waters
of natural systemic immersion,
swimming in an icy northern sea
of submissive submersion.
I hunger for a lost hunting paradise
of cooperatively synergetic vitality.
I feel homeless nest
sinking into a catastrophic
unmiraculous death.
Death dreams in constellations of encultured space,
dynamic time invested in frequencies of place,
co-arising patterns,
gravitational rhythms,
co-operative flow
resilient resonance...
Life is what we absorb each day,
invest in,
divest of each night.
Time is what regenerates future
and decomposes past.
Economic balance is found in nutrients we produce,
not just toxic losses we have tragically consumed.
Eco-logic ratios and rations
portions and proportions
identify and give and dispossess
rectify and take and co-redeem
plant and harvest
winnow and compost
thin and nurture
blame and praise
stimulate and respond
To traumas and therapies
causes and effects and affects and infects and defects and reflects
dislikes and values
lives and decays
To order and confusion
resonance and dissonance
frowns down upon and within
and smiles up and without
curses against blessings.
Would it not be good to balance justice
so everything adds up without remainder
double-bound smooth-structured perfection,
mutually justified margins
balancing all sides of any story and issue,
correctly aligned judgment,
a logically normative standard,
a natural golden healthy law
inclusive of all Earth's living, breathing qualitative values
and quantitative nutrients,
eluding all EarthTribal pathologies
and wilting economies,
failing gardens,
competing losses,
summer seared deserts,
polarizing bares?
Our ecotherapy calls for more cooperative gardens
and recreation,
and employment,
and lifestyles,
and revolving rhyming analogical norms
for economic behavior,
Golden practice of co-gravitating intent
emerging from ancient threads of transmillennial loss.
Synergetic PolyUniversalism,
Post-Taoist multisystemic analysis
of Nature balancing Time's right
to struggle and suffer
toward dialectical defining,
harmonizing,
effecting,
regenerating our metamorphic root co-operative system
of, for, and by Earth's EquiValent Justice,
in four primal dipolar/bipolar fractal dimensions,
like DNA,
to site our most regenerative example
found in each neuro-transpositional cell.
Awaking now,
to our melting ice home,
did we find this ecojustice,
or did fractal seasons find and intelligently polymorph us,
or integrating both somehow?
Only eternally remembered time's unfolding
will tell upon refolding loss.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2015
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