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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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