Wars of Separation

-------Wars of Separation-------

It is the balance of things 

we must unlearn ourselves 

back towards.

We've been taught 

to take sides, to favor one hand over the other,

in towns separated by color, and schools awarding trophy's to intelligence and athletes,

to console the vices of pride.

We've grown to pledge allegiance 

to one god, 

one country, 

and intolerance for another's.

We have created the imbalance 

by creating a way to measure difference,

justifying our wars and our charity 

upon this idea.

Somewhere within this short amount of time, 

the World broke into three, 

and today the Third manifests a sickness 

of the First one's dis-ease;

for money will not prevent Ebola, 

nor hunger, nor homelessness;

for it is the accumulation beyond necessity 

which begets imbalanced wealth and poverty.

True philanthropy is a willingness not only to give, 

but to receive;

just as those who listen,

will be heard.

So be calm,

be quiet, 

smile and

accept difference as beautiful.

As we all must

let go 

to balance.

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Easy Does It

-------Easy Does It-------

The efficiency gained by any advance in technology

will never compare to the ease

and ultimate productivity

of letting go to every desire to advance.

The higher we build,

the further we get from our roots.

The more we develop,

the more burdens we create.

To again know

the richness of simply living

will take progress in the other direction

than where we have been told.

There's no paved road

to take us

where we need to go;

no new seed

that could feed us better

than those passed down from a time before poison would fake fertility;

no written law

to defend the justice deeper

than the righteousness inherent to our nature.

There is nothing beyond

what we already have,

and everything we will ever need

needs only to be uncovered.

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Unity, ME

-------Unity, ME-------

Recall

the constant draw

to forgive.

Recall

our common

ground.

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Before Charity, Let Us Sit Together

-------Before Charity, Let Us Sit Together-------

It will be a celebration like none other

when the Philanthropists stop giving

and accept that their charity will not cure the trouble 

that their ignorance persistently creates.

Then, upon hearing what the world actually needs from them,

they will join the Masses at their table for a feast,

that their innate likeness and presence together 

has prepared.

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Say Its Time

-------Say Its Time-------

The world is sick and we are the creators of its dis-ease.

We have made the poison we feed our children 

and the wars begun of fear in our own heads.

Forests have turned to dust under our watch.

Rivers black from the runoff of hubris.

We have used our gift of reason to justify sterility 

in science and oppression under law, 

passively succumbing the masses to poverty.

But for every injustice another soul commits to righteousness,

and the polarities and balance of our very nature

allow the capacity to create dis-ease to be also the capacity to re-create ease.

It is time to let this light rise in our hearts,

to feel the peace of simplicity again,

to do good with all we have.

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