The Agnostic Gardener

How can you say
with your not quite straight face
that you neither know nor care
anything of God, or gods, 
or exotic goddesses
or ghosting holy spirits?

That's like saying you don't care for any love today,
or believe in rain during a drought,
yet feel gratitude for sacred Earth's holistic medicine,
all the grace-filled rain that came some other place and day,
even if not this dry and cracked today.

Like saying you don't believe in music
and dance
and sex
and pleasure
and passion
and red and purple and pink and yellow bruised violet sunsets.

How could you not care about creative becoming?
Regeneration of interdependent life?
The future peaceful home of our prospering grandchildren?
Health care and assurance?
Social and environmental securities?
Anti-social anti-ecological irreligious insecurities?
AnthroObscene LoseAnthroMinds/LoseEarthBodies 
mutually assured destroying war games
and re-creative multicultural sacred/organic gardens
pantheistically loving 
peace-thriving fragrant and beautiful Beloving Communities.

How can you pretend
with that half-smirk
that this Earth Goddess 
we democratically garden together
is no one you could wisely know
or deeply care about?
To co-redeem a master gardener's wildest dreams?
To love into integrity's holy nature/spirit wealth 
by divesting of manmade hypocrisy,
thinking we could sufficiently name,
much less commodify, God 
without re-creating passions
and pleasures of organic Paradise.

Why would you take a pass
on digging into Earth's co-passionate
fully humane mind/body divinity?

This could not be true
not really you
not the Self with polyculturing Others 
past and future right now within
and without your own,
but never owned, passion
to prefer sacred cooperative pleasure's 
indigenously natural wisdom.

How can you know
we're not gods and goddesses
in our health-gardening integrity?
in our potential for harvesting regenerativity?
economic and politically fertile
sync-tensegrity,
love of full-stretch multi-colored jazzy soul livity.

You know you want to dance in cornrows 
and sing with bird choirs
as god and goddess
within and on,
for and of Mother Gorgeous Gaia's
embryonic wounded womb
elationally awaiting Golden Ruling garden bliss

Or, did I miss something
in that twinkling 
of your somewhat straight-faced lie?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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