Wednesday, January 26, 2022

use it up; wear it out

  

a sense of exhaustion
each exhausted by our own weary,
wearing experience
Too worn and weary to want
to carry on.
Rebellion may seem attractive,
out there, somewhere,
but far too depleting to
contemplate today.
Sleep is what appeals --
let us rest, exhale.
 
 
 
 
Parallel, not Hierarchical
Better for me, not better than you.
 
 
 
freedom can only be absolute if one is alone
 
freedom in community, society, family is dependent
on a contract or commitment to mutually respect
each other's freedom -- responsibility.
 
 
 
 
many years ago I was looking out onto a river
and thinking about egolessness
 
I heard the river as we hear voice in silence
say:  I am a river, I flow as nature and have
no need of an ego.  You are human, in a world
of other humans, and you need your special
center voice to give you the means to be you.
 
 
 
 
everyone not on the Trump bandwagon gets
threatened and pretty soon the rabid radical
Republicans will be carrying out these executions
if we don't protect ourselves and take away their power
 
 
 
 
why would you not vote, if only to give support to
a 3rd party alternative, a write-in, some indication
that you matter as a citizen because the vote is your
fundamental duty as a citizen of a democracy and it's
by giving up on that duty in droves that we destroy
our chance for having a voice
 
 
 
1/22-26/22

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