An ode to letting the world become whole again
SL on Save Little Harbour/Owls Head Nova Scotia From Becoming A Golf Course (Public Facebook group) Jan 25, 2020. (Posted here to facilitate access for those not on Facebook, also to archive social media posts relevant to NS forests and ecology.)
SL cites this poem by an anonymous author:
“The powers that be,
are degrading the ecology,
to stimulate the economy.
Our culture is based
on base commodity;
not our inter-connected experiences.
And now,
the accumulation
of generations
of pollution
has poisoned the futures ecosystems.
What is the solution
to this situation
of global contamination?
We build multi million-dollar prisons
yet still dump garbage in the oceans.
Industrialized society creates
200 billion pounds of plastic each year!
Of which 10% will end up in the oceans.
There are swirling masses of plastic particles,
under the surface of the oceans,
that are the size of hurricanes…
Composed of billions of pounds of plastic and other trash…
The coral reefs are dying…
The oceans are sick…
The oceans produce 50% to 85%
of the oxygen we breathe!
We erode the topsoil,
And replace the essential nutrients
with chemical fertilizers…
While killing the ecology with pesticides and herbicides causing the eradication of microbiomes…
They damn up the rivers…
And they drain the aquaphors
And the wetlands…
They discriminate genetically modified organisms.
They poison our food supply
with artificial colors,
And sweeteners,
and flavors….
Someone invented smog and caused acid rain
Someone blew up the ocean
with atomic explosions.
They homogenize milk and juice.
They outlaw plant medicines,
to prescribe toxic pills.
They cut down trees and poison out land with glyposate.
They cure divine visions
with psychotropic poisons
So that humanity will only see
an antiquated version of reality.
Ruled by organize religion,
government,
and money!!!
How soon before baking your own bread, becomes illegal?
How long before they mandate the homogenization of human breast milk?
How soon before it’s too late?
How long till we all act together?
…
The late great poet Khalil Gibran
once wrote
“work is love made visible”
but I think that it is only true,
If you are driven by love,
and not fear or poverty or greed…
It is only true,
if you were doing good deeds.
Pollution is not an act of love.
Wealth is greed made visible.
…
I want to help build little pieces of peaceful prosperity
and watch then spread like dandelions.
I want to help make the world a better place.
I want to write a poem that will save the world, the kind of poem that will fix the delicate balance of the biosphere?
Who can put that down on paper?
…
Who would be rich in a world of equality?
All is not lost if we act quickly!
The truth is coming!
The answers are opening…
The beginning is near!
The beginning is near!!
The beginning is near!!!
We must manifest social change
Through self love
and interpersonal relationships…
We must collectively craft a new paradigm.
We must collaborate.
And Cross-pollinate all the political projects.
We must utilize appropriate technologies
and plant the seed of simplicity;
in order to cultivate a peaceful prosperity.
You don’t have to give up your smartphone,
in order to meet your neighbors…
You don’t have to give up your Facebook,
in order to have real friends.
You don’t have to give up your car,
in order do enjoy biking to work.
But…
We do have to give up our luxuries,
in order to have World Peace.
We do have to give up our privilege
in order to have equality
We may be have to give up our French fried foods
in order to enjoy our great, great grandchildren
We almost have it;
and once we do…
The children will know how to use it!
And the children of children
will build a paradise
on the ruins
of
our
selfish
culture.
But right now,
we got a deal with
the right now,
right now!!!
We have to forget the past!
No, never forget!
Remember!
but learn…
and move on…
Move towards the future that is coming.
The future has become the now,
more than once!
So remember who you are
and dream.
Dream a new world into being;
and Love the process of change.
Love the road for all it’s bumps.
Let us move forward…
In a way that we will be nourished
by the gardens
that we helped start;
and be housed
in the communities
of love and light that we desired;
and be at peace in the world
that we changed for the better…
So…
Eat dinner with your neighbors!!!
Grow some of your own garden produce.
Make your own sprouted bread.
Feed your own chickens.
Make your own music.
Mend your own clothes
and maybe
sew on some bright colored pockets…
And have the life,
where you watch your own kids;
and teach your own kids.
Paint your own house.
Work less!
Spend less!
Buy less!
Waste less!
Pollute less!
Hate less!
Love more…
Nap more…
Stretch more…
Eat more healthy…
Live more simply…
Love more fully…
Live more freely…
Dance more often…
Work and play!
Celebrate and sleep in…
Live and then die …
and not kill…
Not conquer
Not pollute
Because life always goes on and on;
And on…
But…
Weather or not that life
is healthy and peaceful?
Or
Toxic and war torn…
is yet to be decided;
and hangs in the balance.
It is in our hands.
Every day of our lives
will be choosing
of the direction of fate…
This is the beginning of ‘the great turning’.
The shift of epic…
We shall overcome corporate capitalism!!!
We shall escape consumerism!
We shall create a new option.
By living a sustainable paradigm,
that provides the essentials for
Mind, body and Spirit.
and co-create space
and create community for other people
to choose as an alternative
to the consumerism rat race
because “if we build it, they can come”
So…
Put down your smartphone
and talk to someone.
Put down your microwave burrito
and garden and cook.
Put down your credit card
and help each other.
Put down your pain and put down your fear.
Put down your hate.
Remember to love…
because in the end love matters;
and not much else does.
So let us help each other, love ourselves
and love one another
and love the Earth for all that it is;
and everything that is in it.
And let us work together,
to make the world a better place,
a better place for every living thing.
And let us let love
be our sharpest tool,
And let us let the world become whole again…
So that the Children of Children
May Know World Peace.”
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The powers that be,
are degrading the ecology,
to stimulate the economy.
Our culture is based
on base commodity;
not our inter-connected experiences.
And now,
the accumulation
of generations
of pollution
has poisoned the futures ecosystems.
What is the solution
to this situation
of global contamination?
We build multi million-dollar prisons
yet still dump garbage in the oceans.
Industrialized society creates
200 billion pounds of plastic each year!
Of which 10% will end up in the oceans.
There are swirling masses of plastic particles,
under the surface of the oceans,
that are the size of hurricanes…
Composed of billions of pounds of plastic and other trash…
The coral reefs are dying…
The oceans are sick…
The oceans produce 50% to 85%
of the oxygen we breathe!
We erode the topsoil,
And replace the essential nutrients
with chemical fertilizers…
While killing the ecology with pesticides and herbicides causing the eradication of microbiomes…
They damn up the rivers…
And they drain the aquaphors
And the wetlands…
They discriminate genetically modified organisms.
They poison our food supply
with artificial colors,
And sweeteners,
and flavors….
Someone invented smog and caused acid rain
Someone blew up the ocean
with atomic explosions.
They homogenize milk and juice.
They outlaw plant medicines,
to prescribe toxic pills.
They cut down trees and poison out land with glyposate.
They cure divine visions
with psychotropic poisons
So that humanity will only see
an antiquated version of reality.
Ruled by organize religion,
government,
and money!!!
How soon before baking your own bread, becomes illegal?
How long before they mandate the homogenization of human breast milk?
How soon before it’s too late?
How long till we all act together?
…
The late great poet Khalil Gibran
once wrote
“work is love made visible”
but I think that it is only true,
If you are driven by love,
and not fear or poverty or greed…
It is only true,
if you were doing good deeds.
Pollution is not an act of love.
Wealth is greed made visible.
…
I want to help build little pieces of peaceful prosperity
and watch then spread like dandelions.
I want to help make the world a better place.
I want to write a poem that will save the world, the kind of poem that will fix the delicate balance of the biosphere?
Who can put that down on paper?
…
Who would be rich in a world of equality?
All is not lost if we act quickly!
The truth is coming!
The answers are opening…
The beginning is near!
The beginning is near!!
The beginning is near!!!
We must manifest social change
Through self love
and interpersonal relationships…
We must collectively craft a new paradigm.
We must collaborate.
And Cross-pollinate all the political projects.
We must utilize appropriate technologies
and plant the seed of simplicity;
in order to cultivate a peaceful prosperity.
You don’t have to give up your smartphone,
in order to meet your neighbors…
You don’t have to give up your Facebook,
in order to have real friends.
You don’t have to give up your car,
in order do enjoy biking to work.
But…
We do have to give up our luxuries,
in order to have World Peace.
We do have to give up our privilege
in order to have equality
We may be have to give up our French fried foods
in order to enjoy our great, great grandchildren
We almost have it;
and once we do…
The children will know how to use it!
And the children of children
will build a paradise
on the ruins
of
our
selfish
culture.
But right now,
we got a deal with
the right now,
right now!!!
We have to forget the past!
No, never forget!
Remember!
but learn…
and move on…
Move towards the future that is coming.
The future has become the now,
more than once!
So remember who you are
and dream.
Dream a new world into being;
and Love the process of change.
Love the road for all it’s bumps.
Let us move forward…
In a way that we will be nourished
by the gardens
that we helped start;
and be housed
in the communities
of love and light that we desired;
and be at peace in the world
that we changed for the better…
So…
Eat dinner with your neighbors!!!
Grow some of your own garden produce.
Make your own sprouted bread.
Feed your own chickens.
Make your own music.
Mend your own clothes
and maybe
sew on some bright colored pockets…
And have the life,
where you watch your own kids;
and teach your own kids.
Paint your own house.
Work less!
Spend less!
Buy less!
Waste less!
Pollute less!
Hate less!
Love more…
Nap more…
Stretch more…
Eat more healthy…
Live more simply…
Love more fully…
Live more freely…
Dance more often…
Work and play!
Celebrate and sleep in…
Live and then die …
and not kill…
Not conquer
Not pollute
Because life always goes on and on;
And on…
But…
Weather or not that life
is healthy and peaceful?
Or
Toxic and war torn…
is yet to be decided;
and hangs in the balance.
It is in our hands.
Every day of our lives
will be choosing
of the direction of fate…
This is the beginning of ‘the great turning’.
The shift of epic…
We shall overcome corporate capitalism!!!
We shall escape consumerism!
We shall create a new option.
By living a sustainable paradigm,
that provides the essentials for
Mind, body and Spirit.
and co-create space
and create community for other people
to choose as an alternative
to the consumerism rat race
because “if we build it, they can come”
So…
Put down your smartphone
and talk to someone.
Put down your microwave burrito
and garden and cook.
Put down your credit card
and help each other.
Put down your pain and put down your fear.
Put down your hate.
Remember to love…
because in the end love matters;
and not much else does.
So let us help each other, love ourselves
and love one another
and love the Earth for all that it is;
and everything that is in it.
And let us work together,
to make the world a better place,
a better place for every living thing.
And let us let love
be our sharpest tool,
And let us let the world become whole again…
So that the Children of Children
May Know World Peace.
Author- Anonymous