We singe each other where our edges touch
Much too much ‘us’ in one place
Disaplacing reality as we
Scorch ourselves in embrace
Tracing lines of fire at our extremes
Cause only where extremes are spent
Were we ever able
Ever meant
To be
No place in day-to-day space for us
Just existing in the ether at theshadow
lines
Spine to spine on the line of existence
That breath of space where we embrace
Our souls
Where souls embrace our whole
And we recognize our entirety by being
Seeing the join and making it fade with recognition
Knowing that only here and now
Somehow, is the real of existence
I love you
I love who we are
When we’re together
Like this
Bliss in co-joined decision
To act
As one
For all
And all
For one
We’re
swarming now…
Like starlings gathering at sunset
We’ve finally met our points of union
And soon there’ll be so many more
We’ll soar…
High on truth and trust
Filled with lust
…for the honourable path
...it is a victim of abuse and WE must come to the rescue
Currently, daily and for the longest time - bullies, liars
and thieves have sent sharp-suited, slick-talking Lobbyists into the place
where our laws are made. These Lobbyists buy, cheat, manipulate, blackmail and
bribe their agenda in – masquerading as democracy.
THIS isn’t democracy – our democratic SYSTEM of government has
been beaten out of shape - to serve the powerful, the wealthy and the greedy;
it is now so broken and so ugly that only the worst, can function within it.
Those lower-down the heirachy who claim to represent us are mere mouthpieces,
part of the charade; feeble MPs, too weak, too threatened, too ambitious or too
corrupted to do the job we trusted them with. They are NOT speaking out about the abuse and
are therefore facilitating it with their compliance. Gutless and worse than
ineffective; they serve as the phoney face of this fiction.
The system though is JUST a structure - NOT an ideology, NOT
set in stone and NOT (yet) out of reach. It just requires fixing or redesigning
so that it reflects the honesty, fairness and justice we should be demanding of
OUR democratic system of government.
WE are the many and the bad are the few
Up until the internet came along, those holding office and wielding power had the loudest voices through
control of media; now though, we connect, we broadcast, we get informed and are buoyed by the
realisation that so very many share our discoveries and dismay...as well as our hopes.
We KNOW that trusting politicians is a stupid thing to do, we KNOW each
government (all parties) will break their election promises, we KNOW that there
is a revolving door that sees politicians end up with great roles in the
private sector after complying with Lobbyists throughout their terms, we KNOW
our academic institutions are having their research bought, tampered with and
paid for by those industries with a vested interest in the outcomes and we KNOW
we are lied to daily... so, WTF?
I often hear: “You know there’s nothing you can do to change
it don’t you?”
THIS is the saddest thing because it reflects complete submission
to a system we KNOW to be lying to us; an acceptance that the abuse can
continue and that we WILL be passing this on to the next generation.
I also (more and more frequently) hear: “You know all we
need is for the others to join us – then we CAN change this.”
THIS is the
source of my optimism and certainty that our individual humanity (when combined) is the home
of the solution.
We are divided, fragmented and encouraged to turn on each other by applying labels and making assumptions and judgements we really have no right to make - but I KNOW when we come together with a shared need to solve a problem, a unique connectivity brings about unique solutions.
It IS time for each of us to be the honourable people we are at our core – time
to get a whole lot louder and the only way to do that is to become an *activist.
(*Activist = someone who acts on their concerns).
You can be the activist YOU choose to be... alone, in secret, in public, with others or at a mass demonstration. Recently I have
seen noble individuals, standing alone with simple signs in simple acts of
protest at appropriate locations; I have seen little knitted droplets shaped to represent
water, hanging from trees in a town threatened by big energy; I have camped in the mud with 300 others because it was worth it for the opportunity to share
plans, resources, humour and determination; I have been amongst a mass of Anonymous-masked others taking to the streets because they ARE our streets and I have sat in
deep conversation with a ‘Knitting Nanna’ from Australia who travelled across
the world to help inspire and charge those facing a shared fight with a hugely
powerful industry.
Deciding to do something about the wrongs you see is an individual
choice
~ but a universal obligation
Remember that scene in that movie where the angry newsman
finally loses his ability to put up with the masquerade any longer and screams: “I’m
mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it!” I had this surge within me in October2011 – my own, personal ‘enough-is-bloody-enough’ moment brought on by bailouts
and cutbacks that were so absurd - I felt it a huge insult to ask us to swallow
it.
Because our government isn’t OURS, it can watch the suffering of those facing
ATOS assessments that de-humanise them beyond comprehension – all under the guise
of weeding out the tiny, tiny fraction that are not legit; it can steal away OUR NHS that we and our parents and their parents paid for dutifully, imagining
it would be our legacy, that the taxes and NI contributions might ensure it; it
can turn a blind eye to the desperate needs within our communities for
investment in the things that matter like respectful, dignified care for our
elders, a more generous teacher-to-pupil ratio for our young and a way of
meeting our energy needs that doesn’t sacrifice our health and well-being.
Today... is a good day to become the activist you choose to be
