Journey and Lunabella
who are the reason one CANNOT remain silent,
because their future matters so much.
Because in all of the rhetoric that batters us daily,
no one is listening or trying to come to some agreement.
Because humanity has lost its way and may not find
its way back until it is too late.
Because I have great-grandchildren who will live
that reality, and I won't be here to help them.
Because the horror of war and the toll in human
suffering is too overwhelming to find words for.
Because my heart, that once dreamed
the transformation of consciousness would
happen in time, has retreated to a state of
resignation and lost much of its ability to hope.
Because the only way I can find solace and to cope
with all that is so wrong is to walk in silence in
the forest, or in contemplation along the shore.
Because we poets bathe in words, yet often
live our outer lives in silent observation.
Because the climate crisis is accelerating
and everyone is so distracted by war
we don't realize there is a bigger war going on,
between nature and corporate greed, that
we won't survive unless we lower emissions
DRASTICALLY and NOW.
Because like the rest of humanity, we wait
for world leaders to inspire and lead us
and no one is shining that brightly.
Because we are in need of heroes and
the news is full of un-heroic speech
by those invested in attacking our rights
and freedoms.
Because my heart is breaking for this
so-divided world and nothing can change
unless we all come together.
Because fascism is rising across the globe,
even in places we never dreamed it would,
including the home of the brave and
the land of the free. (Just watch those
rights and freedoms disappearing.)
Because we can't change or reason with
fanatical and fundamentalist thinking, and
therein lies the problem.
Because humans tend to learn
the hard way.
A gloomy point of view but, alas, it's where we're at.
People who want or accept censorship are evading being reasoned with.
ReplyDeleteFundamentalist Christians are not unreasonable, except that they take the tenets of their faith as facts, like the multiplication table, that no rational person would try to reason against. Once we understand and accept the fundamentals of the faith, even if we have doubts or quibbles with some of them, it's possible to talk about things like our divinely appointed purpose to "dress and keep," not to ruin and destroy, the Earth.
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ReplyDeletePriscilla King
". Because we can't change or reason with
ReplyDeletefanatical and fundamentalist thinking, and
therein lies the problem. " So very true. There is no reasoning with them anyway. They have one point of view, are stuck inside the cult.