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Who Are The Good Guys?

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(“Nonbinary”, 2023, original encaustic)

Who Are The Good Guys?

It’s a simple question and obvious assumption
But the “good guys” are always “us”
And not them.

And yet all around us, all the time
We see people changing sides
Growing up, becoming wiser, or more corrupt 
But making a change, a conversion, a choice
To be themselves in new ways, or sometimes
Just their same old ways as others change.

But the assumption that we are always right 
Yet in need of more skill in being right
Is what holds us back from something more.
And that something more
Is what awaits when all distinctions 
Of us and them dissolve.

The ultimate OBE, not just out-of-body
But out of mind
And so, Samsara as well.
And when we are so delivered, what do we find?
Peace and spaciousness 
And the face of the sacred, in everyone we see.

(11/23/24)

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