I've often heard,
Guns do not kill,
and people do.
I've often thought,
Words do not curse,
but people do.
Both are right
and wrong.
Our words
and guns
and uncivil enculturation,
bad habits
and addictions
fascinations
relentless Win/Lose competitions,
disenchantments
mutual divestments
despairing ego-centriments,
isolation
paranoia
xenophobia
homophobia
germophobia
racial phobia,
terror and terrorism
together curse
and kill.
Guns with owners
too often hear
words with full-volume cursing
swords
ballistic piercing kills
Any cooperatively owned and green-managed party,
political or otherwise.
As any economist,
or even a half-conscious politician,
or patient parent knows,
We have two types of deficits;
investments and divestments.
Let's call them NegativEnergy One
and NegativEnergy Two,
or, for short,
just ThingOne
sometimes portends darker ThingTwo.
We may choose a short-term deficit budget
to invest in growing a long-term PositivEnergy surplus,
or interdependent profit.
Or we may choose to contribute to a longterm
toxically overdrawn
eternally divesting waste stream,
like burning currency for fuel
or flushing coins down the toilet
or peeing and pooping where we could have eaten
or taken a warm bubbly bath.
ThingOne
can ZeroSum Win-Lose balance,
Or degenerate into
not even ZeroSum Lose-Lose
ThingTwo
predicting further devastated landscapes
and climate pathologies.
Or NegativEnergy One withdrawals
could resiliently resonate
co-arising PositivEnergy co-investments
Not not ZeroSum
Win-Win
for restoring nutritional
nurturing
multigenerationally cooperative Justice,
Peace,
notnot Trust
with YesYes resonant symmetry.
Symmetry
like synergy
It has an uncertain
yet resonant ring to it.
You say it's nothing personal
this neglect you throw my way
but surely you can see it is political
to fire me from power within your sentient life
this
or any other
day?
And, if political then economic
as we have no investments or divestments
without some self and/or other enlightened intention
of co-relational transaction
or diminishment from what had been
mutually empowering relationship.
No longer hope of these enriching transfers
of self with other power
that have meant so much to me,
for me,
of me.
Yet, yes I can see,
you need to protect yourself
with this belief
that somehow neglect of therapeutic process
is nothing personal,
just political and economic.
Thanks so much for this reminder
our sacred relationship
was merely your secular commodity.
Some days and nights it feels too hard
not to turn back former times,
ages and stages,
agreements and arguments,
investments and divestments,
births and deaths,
to ask all rebirth questions
I had no voice to ask yet.
Sometimes it hurts ache deeply
not to turn back able time
to ask my wiser questions of today
before we slipped apart.
Deep time may help to remember
I never could have learned to ask
if I had ever known more power
to stop time's flow
Remembering why this time
in this wide place
we could ever hope to meet
just right
on riverbanks of questions.
What were our odds
of landing here together
given all of time's vast space
invested to remember
what to ask each now together,
and why,
and how long is too short.