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Ok, I'm not paid to think (like the TV shouting heads), I have no real voice (vote), and certainly no credentials—but I'm as invested in America as any high-school citizen can be—I've pledged allegiance 3,000 times (hhmmm ... do they doubt our loyalty?) and when it comes to loving America I'd have to say my classmates and I are at the center of the spell.
I'm afraid we're growing up in the age of hate ... the age of phony outrage where each position large or small is high noon and violence is afoot even when policing ordinary citizens.
We won't address the multitude of old problems in this new age ... we'll just unleash a marquetry of half truths to dispute the proven until unreasoned arguments reach their paranoid fullness. The real world is alarming enough—let's just push that away and ignore it—and while we're at it let's $lut shame the poor, the old, the sick, the unemployed, the hungry and the hand of mercy.
I realize America was never one moral atom bonded for the better—but those anvils that forged us appear neglected or forsaken. I'm afraid what's happening now, what we're seeing and hearing now, is a symphony of erosion—that by the time I have any say at all, the middle class will be gone—
America turned slum—where even the voice of despair will be termed traitor.
We'll only be able to see our greatness in museum souvenir shops where nothing is affordable and everything is made elsewhere.
How might our feeling-language
play its stretching role
toward imagining ourselves and others
differently than we believe we,
and they,
truly are
on our best
and worst day?
Can you find a difference between dark problems, as issues,
and lighter opportunities, as possible resolutions,
in how they feel deeply heavy v. widely bright,
but this difference is not that of opposites within themselves,
so much as dialectical cause-effect appositional feeling
diseased
uneased
and easy.
Issues like gun control
and anger management
and rabid climate warming
feel too dark and heavy and unpleasant
to those who love control
and fresh air
and clean water
and nutritious soil
and other healthy things--
not so sure about giving way to violence,
but certainly loving sufficient power
to control my future
with human privileged you.
Anyway,
opportunities to control ballistic violence
and re-air issues from a freshly potentiating perspective,
and to water clean health,
rather than develop dark issues and constituencies
living as monoculturally over-consuming AnthroMobs
feel lighter,
more enlightened,
perhaps even a bit more,
I don't know,
maybe bipartisan rebalancing
our WinWin CoOperative Power Game.
How might our interior and exterior therapeutic voices
learn to speak
through cognitive-affective dark-languaged dissonance,
for engaging co-invested awareness
of light feels good
and politically healthy
and compellingly bright
as night contrasting day
Unjust dusk
predicting yet another peaceful dawn?
When your questions far exceed your answers by incalculable margins; When your hope-filled
dreams of "Yes" in neon brights quickly turn into a dark and nightmarish pit filled with "No!";
When you have invested precious energy, quality time, and a heart-full of passion
to endeavors you are most passionate about; And when it seems that the seeds you planted
never took root and came to fruitition, take stock
and remember that there are no lasting loses but only eternal gains in a life lived and in things done for the Lord.
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Healthy robust empathy of embryos,
infants,
children
recognizes instinctive curiosity,
absence of apathy.
Active distrust is learned
through parents and schools and religions
and other dispiriting unnatural influences,
as was our history of monotheistic political ownership
divorced from co-invested economic ecology.
I live more curiously,
actively looking and listening for
polyicultural political and economic integrity,
win/win strategic intentions
toward cooperatively owned
and managed healthy wealth
Yet still within anthro-supremacism's last remains
of a climatically dissembling MonoTheistic Creation Story
of human nature struggling against EarthTribe's sacred,
and democratically inclusive, global resilience
Regenerating
and educating animated and curious EarthTribe children
thriving healthy
safely wealthy
wisely co-empathic
within EarthMother's indigenous
re-ligiously synergetic Nature.
As MonoTheistic AnthroMind Patriarchs
actively re-engage
PolyTheistic EarthBody Matriarchs,
we re-connect
re-ligion
re-store
re-visit
re-generate
older RightBrain MuseWays
Reweaving MonoTheistic inter-religious Western history
with Eastern PolyTheistic Trust
in animated
curious
and profoundly co-empathic
universally salvific
and rapturous
win/win co-redemptive
democracy.
What resiliently exists
has synergetically become together
more than win/lose competitive apart
Win/Win reframed
as future integrity's healing potential
existence,
sustainable experience,
potency for positive resonance,
multicultural cross-creating
and re-creating narratives
Historical regenerative
cultural responsive
co-invested fore-gifted plots
to co-invest
in co-redeeming
cooperative ecopolitical systems.
What cannot exist,
viably persist
prefacing entropic
static
unchanging enthymematic
pre-emptive being
without past integral reweaving
systemic and ecological potential
to produce empowering gifts
To induce grace
to seed
breed regenerative health creation,
Wealth of multicultural creolization,
positive resonant inter-nations
complexly co-invested
nested cooperative fore-gifted sets
of interdependent resilience
Throughout WholeEarth Systems
re-creating
ego/eco-feminists
more rightbrain prominent
re-educators
recycling
reweaving co-redeeming narratives
Repurposing
re-ligioning
re-integrating secular and sacred
re-storied Meaning
CoMediating political bicameral ways
and economic bilateral means.
You, like all human embodied minds,
whether individual
or collective, tribal
Right hemisphere feelers,
sometimes left handed,
Left hemisphere thinkers,
dominant right handed,
have suffered wounds,
Self-esteem losses
for not being internally transparent
and externally vulnerable enough
for a holistic communion
of EgoLeft and EcoRight inter-hemispheric integrity
that comes only to a few,
usually with advanced mindbody
healthy aged wealth of integrity,
Wealthy interdependent minds
compassionately expanding
throughout Right-hemisphere prominent
polyamorous
ecosystemic bodies
attracted to other ecofeminist minds
Male yang strength of holistic
whole open EarthFirst organic truth
with yintegral outflowing trust
in Gaia's sacred beauty
Left compassionate ethos
supporting Right synergetic feelings,
multisensory healing resonance
overlaying erotically energized resilience
Restoring internal crown+root peace
overpowering historic wounds
of self-blaming violence,
oppression,
absence of win+win
ethos+eros
compassion+pleasure impression.
Not caste privileged StraightWhiteMale
MAGA dominant systems
Internally fragile
because externally win v lose
Zero Sum devolving
capitalistic ego positions
Money infested atrocity
over minion invested democracy.
We were discussing a line
between reasonable compromise
and unconscionable denial
in this time of rapidly escalating fragmentation
When I thought I heard a raw spot
deepened and widened by dissonant history
of disagreement,
antagonistic feelings about noetic consciousness
of past pathological
bad climate events.
Yet
when I ask how you feel
about how we are responding to your position,
story,
exposition,
entrenched in anxious missed communication opportunities
to share your own excitement,
You respond by blaming yourself
for not making your experience clear
quickly enough
given our limited time for co-invested commitment.
Is that your raw spot?
Our limited consciousness
about raw and bleeding climates of mortal turmoil
metaphysically remembered
through past regenerations/degenerations of limited time,
inevitable demise of relationship
currently valued by investment felt
in a more win/win
than win/lose history of personal communication,
communion,
mutually compassionate understanding
feelings of safe yet free dialogue
between appreciative teachers
who are first curious and compassionate listeners,
Listeners to now,
co-presence of ancient raw and therapeutic places
for terror and nurture,
for replanting and reharvesting,
for teaching and listening,
for articulating painful memory
and reflecting on therapeutic future response,
for win/lose plots within win/win commitment spots,
for curious thoughts
and feelings of emergent integrity,
experiential and yet re-membering
co-presently teaching here with active listening now
for past and future emotional voices,
some with, and many without, full consciousness
of responsive choices
For discussing discernment
between reasonable win/lose climates of compromise
and unconscionable denial
of life impeaching raw spots
in this time of rapidly escalating fragmentation,
where inclusive vulnerability
would better seek and find integrity.
Children On Leashes
Children on leashes go for a walk
As they cut the lines with their minds
They jump from captivity
Running away from their crimes
Thinking about animal life...
Dogs come to mind without leashes
Biting off faces they find
But children are dangerous sometimes
So rope keeps them safely in line
Parents wave good-bye to the young ones
Hanging from their ropes with hope
Think of it as a lease on life
Taken by the portals of time
Children grow into new leashes
Provided by bosses that cry
“I have too much invested in you and your friend.”
“So I must keep you both close at hand”
“As you might guess, Mr. Y and Mr. X,
Very short leashes work best
Should keep you close to the vest”
“Economizing and company come first in this land”
“So kiss your freedom good-bye”
“And try this one on for size”
Children on leashes go for a walk
What they find is a job with more line
Harder to cut and works just fine
When the president said ‘misunderestimated’
Everybody wondered, ‘was he ever educated’
But I forgive him that, for the thing that makes me ‘EEK!’
Is the mad proliferation of Corporation Speak…
For thirteen years a desk paid my rent
As I gave a hundred and ten percent
While progress chasing, the big knobs suggested
I could perhaps be more invested
They said action that
And try blue sky thinking
Let’s square the circle
Cos floating ain’t sinking
So pick it up and run with it
But bring it to the table
And hit the ground running
Don’t smoke in the stable
Scare the ghost
Feel the commotion
Peel the onion
Boil the ocean
If you’re out of the loop
Go punch the puppy
We’ll take it on board
(While I punch the yuppie)
So here’s the game changer
Think outside the box
We need joined up thinking
Heads up, shoot the fox
It’s a no brainer, for it’s got legs
The tastiest coffee still has dregs
So find a window, bump some heads
You can’t make an omelette without cracking eggs
So let’s all sing from the same hymn sheet
For we live in a world full of corporate speak
Who is this would-be Redeemer
stalking my own mirror?
Whether for good or evil
I remain stuck in
ambivalent.
Riding Time's unfolding edge,
glancing forward for faith in better
stronger
surer lasting light
glancing backward darkens optimistic hope
to change what I cannot
yet
to fulfill commitments to grow together
as me and we might
were I not so all-encompassing alone.
Universe of Presence much too vast for home.
Even so, the present makes a safer home
than future's pregnant womb
or past's sterile tomb,
drawing these two faces together
in stigmatic messiah wound,
breathing in and out,
stifling each victorious shout
"Not yet!...not yet....again
my time unwilling to climax
without our Time past
and future CoBeloved.
Faith in fated freedom
struggles with choosing Earth's rebirth
as ego-death
to what might have been
anthro-privileged benign
contents choosing co-invested life
as if co-passion through cosmic context
of karmic win/win revolution.
CoRedeemer hearts
and loving minds
perpetually ride anguished surf of paradise,
not yet, not done yet
not this, not that,
not yet tomorrow, too soon yesterday,
hanging on bodhisattva mentoring crosses
in-between
where nondual co-arising Now
surfs swelling/ebbing cycles
Here
not yet resiliently healthy
There
and not yet wealthy
win/win Were.