NOW august 2023

Now,
It is not now or never…
Its “never”.
Never to remain even close to normal… again
Never to be safe,
Never again will this world to be able to support the many…
Support the many of us warm-blooded ones.
From now on it is collapse.
From now on it will seem a slide into chaos.

For fifty years the understanding has stood before staring.
For fifty years... the careen of civilization’s reckless drive…
I have watched... unwilling, dismayed with the species.
Inadvertently I took an outsider’s path.
Now… I am hollowed out and honor what is holy.
And as we all waltz with what is… I dance with the immortal.

Waiting… waiting for you…
The Buddtha Heart calls.
Words are sown… petals strewn…
Wanting to be heard… waiting to be tread…
For there is the Way
There is the way to allow…
There is a way to agree…
(there is so much to let go of… to let go of the fear… to stop requiring... to stop making foolhardy requests)
There is the necessity to appreciate…
There is the necessity to appreciate how life comes... comes furnished from death... and then fades back away.
There is the necessity to know what is unchanging… to know what is the oneness of love.
There is the necessity to know how the breath subtly rises with the innate essential enthusiasm.
So...
So, we may step discerningly forward into the disruption.