Can you feel it?

This thing we are witnessing-the collapse of the old paradigm-I have been aware of for decades.My time is here,what I (and many others) have been saying is no longer cause for sniggering.Heres a poem I wrote a few years back.


We're building a boat


We're building a boat

Hull hard as bone

Supple as sinew and flexible as history

You need that on the high seas and low latitudes

Able to carry cargo and swarthy crew

Repositories of synthesized human wisdom carefully stowed;

Inventory

1. The last seeds

2. Boxes of old bones

3. Single celled organisms two by two

4. The things you might need; Novels that are a good read

  

Chandlery

Sails we’re stitching from quilts of pure energy

And invention and imagination

To blow patterns of energy on her billow-

Adaptable and flexible and modest are the sails

The rudder is sturdy and reliable as a hand

Calloused from hauling on sheets and working the land

Yet persistant and gentle, keeping the faith they were

Finger pointing to who knows where

On its bowsprit a fine carving

Of every face of every human and animal and plant

The mast we’re fashioning as straight and true as our intention

To carry this journey through

On the deck lies embedded

A diamond cosmic compass

Dial and bezel read the stars, the spirit world, reason, gaia, nature, intuition, sound, maritime maps, feeling

We threaded charts with glass beads and shells

From nearly worn out texts and scrolls and computer printouts

Singing sea shantys all the while

Laughter to get you through the doldrums

     All to lead us past the reefs of fallen warriors, women, children, civilisations

     All to weather the storms of human creation

The anchor we’re forging from human tenacity

It is heavy iron to wait out the strong tides that pull 

Or hide from the storm in the bay

Or weigh at that island of the mind where you rest and take on provisions and  crew

 R and R we think important too

     Were building a boat

     She’s almost afloat

     We’re signing up crew

     Hope its you

I heard a woman from Israel saying that in her country people are getting together.Now in my country thats hard,but in her racially,religiously divided country where people are raised to be pitted against one another,its a miracle.The reason? They realised what they all wanted was:a house, clean water,good food, a village to belong to,some inclusion and activity which was meaningful.That doesn't matter if you are Muslim or Christian,Arab or Jew.That's the new thing that's happening.its not a protest for change,it is change.