Power Management V Love Development
"If you want to build a ship,
don't drum up the men to gather wood,
divide the work,
and give orders."
"Instead,
teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When the management of personal relationships
and/or political unions
has degraded from empowering shared visions
for mental/physical health
and environmental safety
and ecologically wise economic prosperity
To disempowering unshared
unenlightened
fear and anger about what we can no longer afford
to keep losing
and continue loving
Then we have reduced
EarthTribe's inter-religious Golden Rule
to merely aspiring to do no further harm
to compassionate win/win reputations
now lose/lose trashed
Powering over hard lessons
in polarizing
victimizing
criminalizing
argue, fuss, and fight
trauma mismanagement
When we could have chosen resilient peace
while sailing through Earth's resonant beauty
if we could revisit
deeply listening for what we all need
before speaking with active curiosity
eye to eye.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2016
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