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I am one, I am many,
I am part of something more
I dream, I wake, I laugh, I cry
I see a door, and I imagine…
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A shift,
A new direction
From hierarchies, pyramids
To systems, patterns, webs
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From unchanging objects
To dynamic relationships
From “ego” to “eco”
Farewell fear, embracing change
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Why do you care?
Confused eyes gaze
What can you do?
Dismissal, a maze
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Life is short,
At least it seems
I’ve never found happiness
In materials and such things
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When I wake
I want to feel alive
Have meaning, have a purpose
A reason not yet to die
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Giving gives more to the giver
I believe this to be true
As time is a gift so
My care for our world too
–
When I look and listen
When I feel, I understand
My fellow beings suffer
At the perils of their own hand
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Suicide and depression,
Obsession with the unreal
Status, money, vanity
Unconscious ignorant un-bliss
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Layers of stories
True yet not whole
A leg of the elephant
Much more to learn
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Blind, I am, to those things
I do not wish to see
The systems, the networks
That connect you to me
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The truth may hurt
But the pain will go away
That’s the cycle
Creation, destruction, creation
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The separations, the unity
Each is true
Each has its purpose
As I, and as you
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Without the land,
The oceans and the trees
Species will perish
Humans to bees
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This is why I care
Why I look for change
I want to live on
In many different ways
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What’s through the door?
How to we open it?
I think it’s through LOVE
A love of life: self, other, all.
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Poem written 30 April 2011.
Photo from a Japanese TV show sometime in 2005.