Thank you causal agents
And line combatants
I thank my ignorance
My participation in the line dance
Of our combat
The tearing apart has left a hole
For the tiny seed of wisdom
To find soil in which to root
Brothers and sisters of the fight
We toil in vain
There is no start to our problem
The line on which we fight
Is drawn not in [...]
There is no starting point
Now I can dance
The ceaseless dance
The spinning and choosing
The moving and being moved
There is no starting point
Now I can dance
I saw a spider on my windshield just the other day
I watched him struggle to stay on as I drove away
At first the spider slowed, it moved a whole lot less
It stopped and stayed real still, the gas my foot did press
I could not tell from its eyes what was on its mind
Faster I did [...]
I just want what Buddha had
A nice, hot, mom, and a rich ass dad
and something that’s missing and hurting real bad
I just want to do what Buddha did
To sit by a tree till the truth is unhid
To take a cool raft to the other shore
Then tell the cool raft I don’t need you no more
I’m [...]
I am a Physical Presence
My mind and body are Unified
My whole self is miraculous
Ever changing, yet complete
I experience with the World
Every instant of my being
Mind and Body
Living Self and Living World
Many, yet singular
Together and Aware
We are a Physical Presence
Each day is my birthday
Each moment, my birth moment
All that is, born anew
Each moment, each day
My birthday every day
My birth moment
Each moment
Right now
Appreciating
The gift
My birth
Moment
and
Day
No longer searching
For the parts
I have found them
The little boy
Lost and found
Part of me
That had to stop
Crying
Had to make
A new self
New life
Has finally gotten
What he needed
Our DNA flows
In the river of time
Branching new streams
Off older ones
Each individual
Part of two others
Who were themselves
A combination
Of many
Stretching back
Up the river of time
Following fertile soils
Across the world
Back to Africa
When a small tribe
Of humans
Chance and choice
Foot and hand
Imagination
and invention
Lead to our great
Collective journey
I hope writing
Survives
Reading too
I hope children
Find a place
To grow
Plants too
I hope water
Survives
For the living
Ebb and Flow
Through
Cell walls
I hope we
Stop
Eating time
Faster
Than it lives us
I want to
Eat like I’m part of the Planet
Drink like I’m part of the Planet
Feel like I’m part of the Planet
Touch like I’m part of the Planet
Think like I’m part of the Planet
It all made sense at the start
Imagination fused with skill and great art
A driving need would pick everything
In this case it became a mighty wing
His dad was good at making things
He was a favorite of the kings
Free at last from the earth and the past
The sky his home now he could fly fast
Free to roam [...]
Today the world has defeated me
World one me zero
I don
Single Savior Notion
The Messiah, the Great One, the One Beyond Compare
Is here, was there, will come, is truth, at last they dare
Some say Marx, or Adam Smith, Jesus or Mohamed
Sale of Single Saviors, an ongoing human drama
The world goes on and on, the marketing machine
Selling single saviors exploiting every dream