Hurricanes come
and people go
life comes
and life goes
in these things
we make a difference
or we do not matter
.
We have foresight
we plan
we look out and ahead
we find some things
are much greater than me
one is not enough
to fix the damage in life
sometimes
we plan to answer
as if in one mind
one heart that knows
what needs to happen
and what is right
between us
.
We plan
those plans are carried
in buckets called desire
by pooling our energies
this is community action
is to some their nemesis
they are about hiding
about hoarding and gain
they must poison the common
water between us
make sharing and caring
out to be bad
to be sad and subversive
.
To undermine the selfish goals
are to these dividers
the source of what threatens
the private retreat into unbridled fantasy
and unchecked self consumption
so they make the common
into ideas of weak and dependency
into barriers to selfish self realization
where the self is as a god
and culture atrophies
with this noose around its neck
.
Amidst plenty
compassion and empathy
are considered the makers
of failure
of weakness and subversion
simple dichotomies stake out minds
they barb wire love and trust
they empower suspicion
nurture arrogance and loathing
for those who would offer hope
of a full life to each creature
and each member of the human family
.
So care is undermined
it is snickered at as “do gooders”
as if good works were shameful
and worthy of spite
they proffer their contempt of the commons
as a right of each to take what they can
get away with
without everyone
or anyone else
having a right to question
this contempt of creation
.
The poisonous apple spreads
in its barrel of ignorance
caring for the commons
that place that connects
and is the nurturing conduit
of all life
caring for this union
this right of all being
is taught as being a falsehood
a usurper of our own
private desire
a taker and a spender
of what you could have claimed
for and to yourself
as if creation itself
were being cut up
killed on the butcher block
of selfish indulgence of ego
.
This will of the many
to answer with a plan
this is given a negative tag
called tax
as if it holds you back
from doing whatever you want
with your own plans
your self centered plans
your freedom
to destroy creation
if you so will
and not be held accountable
to anyone but you
.
The big necessities
can be ignored
will be ignored
this aversion to caring
will collect into its own vessels
they will form world views
with the individual as god
yet hiding deception behind god
up on a pillar to be worshiped
the self prayed to on the side
and comfort connected with
taking
to get whatever it can
get away with
.
This will be turned into a movement
a movement of righteousness
a cause of individual redemption
a myth of individual merit
as if on our own
is the only honest way
to achieve goals
that are good
unless ruled under fear
.
It will be separation
it will be called honor
and glorious achievement
to be envied
it will be claimed to be
gods best friend
the holy sacred messenger
the way of decency
and self realization
.
These are the false Prophets
the dividers and conquerors of Life
the subjugators of Love
the army of self limitation
and self mutilation
the consumption of Spirit and vision
distilled damnation
.
Fear and its greed
its sacred calf of insecurity
and their seductions
of us and them and others
that cannibalize life energy
the ability to see fully
from the ground into the stars
.
These will form association
form and conform nations
until light can be called
darkness
and darkness
light itself
.
To the armies of separation
the worshipers of the self
even if coated with religion
or self righteous ideology
for the whole
the health of everything
there is no plan
the winds rage
the seas rise
fuel cost strangle the poor
until they cannot afford to eat
and there is no plan
the black magicians of privatism
and of the ownership of creation
culture
these have no plans
they hope their friends
their ideological cohorts in separation
these will proffer off an answer
that is the vague plan
.
So the roads crumble
the jobs grow scarce
energy cost strangle wallets
take cans out of the pantry
chill the winters
heat up the summers
and there is no plan
no real plan
for the commons
has its soul held under water
is water-boarded by contempt
of all that unites us
all that we face
all that we are
and share
like it or not
believe it or not
.
If self centerdness wins
if blindness to connection wins
it will cripple the view
it will herd the mind
it will paralyze the heart
to only revolve around me
and my selfish life
my small life
an inherently threatened life
one I try to make everything
all about me and mine
by making everything else
insignificant
.
But everything is significant
significant things happen
they are always happening
if we seek to answer their call
we make our big plans
not by tax
but by offering
offering it up
to all that is
to the Whole
to Life and Love Itself
this is always the key
between being small
between thinking and acting small
or being big
.
Being beyond my own borders
expanding my awareness
not just next door
but to all doors
and each window
each opportunity
to know what is big
or be trapped by
my own small view
its narrow lens
its blind corners
not seeing the rising seas
the melting ice
the longing hearts.
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