Must You Do 2020 the Same Ole?

P.S. scroll down for the poem itself … but I think this “context” just below will make the poem more powerful for you:

WHAT’S IN THIS POST FOR YOU:

My poem about “2020” below is contrarian. The poem should arrest you–on your way to autopilot. Help you see “success” new. Blow open your conventionality on “goals and intentions.” Drop into your watery depths. If you apply these poetics to your life during these radical times, you can gain the strength that only comes from reconnecting with your Deep Essence.

CRITICAL CONTEXT

At our core, I believe we are happiest when we are interconnecting, unifying, and contributing to the greater good of the Whole, like roots of the healthy forest.Yet it’s tricky to tap into this Essence. What, with so much world suffering, fake news, russian bots, climate crises, impeachment shenanigans, twitter trolls, children in cages on our own USA borders, a billion animals burned to death in Australian wildfires, billionaires’ greed, pro-gun rallies on Martin Luther King day.You feel the pain too.

Martin Luther King said it so simply, neigh 50 years ago: “The world is all messed up. Our nation is sick. Trouble is in the land. Confusion is all around.”

Now, as always, in radical times of the old dying and the new birthing (we hope!) our job is this:

As the conscious tribe, as the light-bearers, as the world-servers, stay nimble, resilient, open, flowing, heart-centered, capable of compassion.

Hold in our heart loving compassion even for those we want to hate — for their seeming greed, or their extreme separatists views, or their cruelty.

What wants to kick-in instead of this loving compassion? Our amygdala’s shrieking alarm,  our negativity bias, our flee-or-freeze survival programming — get me the hell out of here. The gift of curse of hundreds of thousands of years of the fight for human survival.

But wait, what if we disrupt this old circuitry?

What if we open to the energies of the Great Awakener or the Great Disruptor, in whatever form we can integrate it. Healthy disruption gives individuals, and possibly humanity itself, the urge and strength to break through barriers, move past restrictions, and liberate ourselves.

Once we free ourselves from our autopilot, conventional goals and success hypnosis, we can get on with loving our ecstatic Earth, finding grit inside, coming from joy not fear.

That’s this poem’s job:

Must You Do 2020 the Same Ole?

Ah, we’re seduced — year after year.
January fantasies of throwing out the Old.
Ego fantasies of crushing it now,
Instead of steeping in the wisdom of our compost.

No composting!
Pant, lust after new orgasms.
Command our Ego to march & manifest!

What if we enter 2020 differently?
Step off your highway.
Feel the crunch of earth’s crust beneath you.
Smell the invisible stream swelling in you.

Instead of goals, intentions, dreams:
How to empty?
How to blow apart your usual you?
How to replace Seeking with Now?

Like fruit … resolving into succulence:
Your heart a wizardly sun-drenched sweet.
Just sitting at home, feeling content inside,
Is a revolutionary act.

Or drop down into the dark, unknowing Yin;
Like the seed —
All damp, dank, deep … slowly …
Suffusing itself into Soil, until one fine Sun.

Go inward, go pregnant, go womb:
Gestate, not driven to birth.
Float in the amniotic fluids of Great Mystery,
Feeding you from all directions.

Or inch your way along the insides of Presence,
With your breath fathoming the riches.
Slowly drag this same breath inside your Bigger Being,
Like raking your fingers through the hair of the Beloved.

What if we enter this differently?
Like a GONGGGGGG
Reverberates in Emptiness.
The Holy Soul is content Here.

The Holy Soul is content Now.

(end)

PROPOSED REFLECTIONS FOR YOU:

1. SHOCK: What struck you open the most? 

2. COMPOST: Like a Native American deep in the forest, listening to every twig that snaps, every bird that cries out: What conventional way in your life needs to die? 

3. RENEW: What inner depth did this poem call you to renew? 

NOW FOR YOUR TURN…

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