"Believe in your dreams!" Wild Woman told her childen.
"Believe in life, in nature, in Mother Earth,"
she told her friends.
"Believe in the transformation of consciousness,
in the goodness of humanity,
that we will change in time," she wrote in poems.
By now, she was sounding a bit shrill and desperate.
Now, everything has changed.
Turns out the warnings were right;
but now we are reacting to disasters,
rather than making change to prevent them.
A bit late for raised consciousness,
but better late than never.
Her heart lifts as humans rise to meet the challenge.
It sinks as capitalism re-opens
its voracious maw to gobble More.
"Do we learn nothing?" she asks the walls, redundantly.
"Believe!" says the stone on her desk,
catching her eye, refusing
to let her fall into despair.
"I'll try," replies Wild Woman.
At this point, she will take encouragement
even from a stone.
for Day 18 at Real Toads: Encouragement
and for Earthweal: the Crossroads
Wild woman must continue to believe, a stone is solid in belief. A symbol of being grounded in difficult times.
ReplyDeleteWhen greed and hatred combine rue the day.
ReplyDeleteVery well put. I am one of those without a president. Like my father once said when he was being screened for a place in assisted living and was asked who the president was, after the longest pause I've ever endured, said, "Do we really have one?"
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We spend our lives encouraging others to do what’s right, disappointed when they don’t listen, and encouraged when they rise to the challenge, as you say:
ReplyDelete‘A bit late for raised consciousness,
but better late than never.’
At least stones don’t let you down.
Some days, events, people defy belief, but so long as we can keep our own truths, we can believe.
ReplyDeletekeep believing...may it grow into a movement to reshape our world for the better.
ReplyDeleteI love this, especially because lately I do come close to despair and must fight it continuously by going outside to nature. Glad you have a rock that keeps you centered.
ReplyDeleteAh! It's so hard to find sources of optimism, especially if tuned in to the spirit of division and opportunism. Don't ignore the rock, though, let it keep reminding you. You totally captured the mood/fear/weariness of today.
ReplyDeleterocks, I wonder, may have more wisdom than men ~
ReplyDeleteHard indeed to feel much encouragement from conditions, but then it is we who must encourage the world to believe -- for that we are ever in need of a Wise Woman -- and blessed -- Brendan
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