James Moore Poet Narrative

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The World Is Changing

("I of the Beholder", 2014, original pen and ink)

The World Is Changing

Quick as thought
The world is changing
Right before our eyes
Everywhere 
People waking up 
To what needs to change
What can be done 
Because finally 
We have the means 
To do 
Or at least try.

Quick as thought
People waking up
To the need to correct 
Age-old injustices
To the disadvantaged 
And disempowered
In a society sick from success
And excess 
That cares not for the other
From the poor and unborn 
To the planet itself.

And just as quick
Piggybacking on the first
Growing social awareness
Comes the spiritual awakening 
It is all in vain
Literally, our hubris to think
We can change anything  
Others or the world
That it even needs changing
To become a better
More perfect union

Just because our guilty conscience
Tell us we should
And our abundant wealth and knowledge 
Tempts us with how
Doesn’t mean we know
What’s best even if we could
And so we freeze – at the starting gate
Or blindly rush on – unsure in which direction
Each the same 
In our foolishness.

And thus our consciousness 
Rises another notch
On the evolutionary scale
In a hierarchy of needs
From the group pack and herd 
To the personal self and individual
Onward and upward into the transpersonal
With its realms beyond physical
In the space of the spiritual
Immediate without limit
Changeless ever-present.

And so we go, each and all, 
Zero the Hero  
The journey of a star from dust to dust
Ignition into radiance
Extinction into darkness
With a moment or two of self-awareness 
Along the way
A moment or two before and after science
When time stops still
We step off the wheel surprised at last
To find we simply are.

(10/23/23)

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