When Anxious
When I feel anxious,
threatened,
endangered by mortal loss
of an immortality
never organically promised
for perpetual pleasures of compassion,
When I feel anxious
aging toward permanent disability
before my Wise Elder fruition
returns to brain fog
from which I came
in embryonic form
and flow
and function,
When I feel anxious
about unmerited,
or,
even worse,
merited infamy
as my destiny
rather than fame
misfortune
unflowering time,
what do I need?
what could I want?
crave for pleasure
purpose
practice
praxis
just protocol
performance
peace persistence
proper protocol procedures,
and, perhaps,
sacred organic meaning?
When I feel anxious
do I need
deep verbal and non-verbal connections
to those who share a home
with still embodied me?
Do I want reconnections
with healthy neighbors
co-cultivating an intentional
conscious
aware
woke
win/win curiously active
healthy and safe
green eco-political
assertive yet unreactive community?
resiliently resonant communion?
co-passionate communication network?
Does my own internal RightHemisphere
need healthy and safe communion
while my own activist LeftHemisphere
wants to restore justice unions
through nonviolent communication
between multiculturally informed,
presciently co-winning
community mediators?
Do I seek fellow hearty
and healthy Me/We sighted
and cited
home-sited organizers?
committed, yet playful, musicians,
political prophetic poets,
cooperative co-investors
in healthy democracy
Resilient
resonant
buoyant EarthTribe advocates
combining party lines
for win/win strategic thrival
When I feel anxious
do I also need
to solitary write
or sing and dance,
or hum
quietly alone
with no witness
but my own?
When feeling anxious
slowly turns
to considering curious anticipation
beyond self-contemptuous dark dread,
must I always remain quite so shy?
about brighter intimacy,
hesitant to publish internal dialogue
free of censoring
potentially consensual fear
about patriarchal capitalist
investments in LeftHemisphere
white privileged
straight male dominance
in unhealthy-unsafe apposition
recreating viral conspiring theories
of transcendently divine
dogmas justifying inhumane
from-above
monotheistic punishments.
When I feel free
to anticipate
our safe and healthy
EarthTribe future,
do I seek
Polycultural Cooperative Investments?
formed by Elder Indigenous Mind,
panentheistically sacred memory
co-empathically robust
health speaking
nonverbally felt
widely resilient
nutritious
deep nurturing
positive socio-psychological
eco-political
multiculturally convincing
wealth.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2022
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