Prayer To EarthPowered Gratitude
Forgive me
for sleeping while you weep,
for breathing while you wilt,
for beating strong and true
free without you
in an unforgiving sea.
Challenge ungrateful Universal Us
to never swim or fly without unitarian we,
to dream in Win to Win
rich passioned blues
for love's lusty heroic truths.
Redeem me
from thriving
on backs aching with loss,
disharmonic dross,
children drifting out to sea,
sons and daughters with no sure home
save hunger to live free.
Gratify me
for Earth's up-front deposit
in a rich-nurtured wombing sea
Each evolving choice
specific to how I might be
a fairly well-fed lottery ship
avoiding large storms of violence,
ballistic anger and fear,
trauma seasoned with sorrow
for not anticipating tomorrow
Without reasonable hope
of better than today,
our last wealth over-borrowed
A chronic path of overpopulated
lack of news
that black and brown bleeding red
unhealthy victims,
both oppressed and our oppressors
do not healthy and graced matter
Stealthy
violent
splattered understory
of how we eat our young
before they can learn
to fly gratitude together
in deep seasoned ecology.
Know me,
EarthTribe's genetic parasite
afraid of my own absorption
within wild regenetic jungle time
of loss
and traumatic decay
While I deafly sleep
to the beat
of a defenseless child
born too soon for time's welcoming embrace,
born without a culturally significant face
that matters to our dull history's ingratitude
No matter negative attitude
if some grow fatter
while flowers wilt
and next year's seeds cease speaking
to our barren trees.
Free me,
from our relentless injustice,
for replacing lack of empathy
with decadent antipathy for We,
for us,
together on Earth's sea
Winded
and smothered
and smoldered addictively,
burning out warrior children's hearts
wrecklessly born of infant empathic love
within EarthTribe We
Rebirthing through full-passionate integrity
recovering EgoMe gratuity
Free from retiring in a slow ego-death
silo of unmindful mediocrity
free to unknow Earth's beloved incubator nest
dream-webbing life as restful space to be
Letting go of ungrateful life
alone at sea
With still sufficient time
to disinvest from fear of death
inside EarthTribal We
Eternally
reconnecting EgoMe
to echo Earth's harmonic health frequency
To dance empowered WeSelf
songs of enlightened cosmic free
engaging full live compassion
to feel each inside pleasure glee
Gratifying
patriotically unstratifying
EarthTribe matriotic We.
Forgive me
for sleeping while you weep,
for breathing while you wilt,
for beating strong and true,
fleeing without you
in a stark
dark
ungrateful sea.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2016
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