When you’re low and glum
When newscasts got you bummed
Take a breath to unplug and find some one
With joy in your heart, gratitude, and love to share
Find a rip in the curtain of delusion
There’s a gap when we’re uncertain with no confusion
Let the freight-train of hate-pain pass you by
Without hanging on or hitching a ride
Look beneath those sick systems for wisdom
See past the thick prisms of schism
In between conditioned reflexes
Is light unseen behind twisted lenses
Space for us to grow and thrive
Grace in-chorus glorious and alive
Put a smile in your eyes to find a smile in all eyes
Let the warmth of your inner sun shine on everyone
We’re in crisis because of bias
From a virus that’s self-righteous
Eclipsing care with vainglorious greed
nixing fair-shares with warriors who stampede
pull the plug on this cruel state of hate
pull out their rug before it’s too late
end all fear with a big bear hug
clear the air on a thick prayer rug
so, open hearts can know no bounds
an ocean imparts flow that surrounds
in every living being
in reverie giving meaning
far beyond ruthless self-serving
we respond with newness ever learning
Be caregivers be love’s rivers
Be hate’s healers be mercy’s teachers
in concert united
where all hurts are invited
to feel heard, seen, and salvedaffirmed, cleansed, resolved
so, our destiny can be conscious evolution
with less money and obnoxious pollution
neighborhoods helping each other
so, our labor would aid those who suffer
so, no one in need goes hungry
no shoguns to bleed our country
just kind equality for humanity
And finding the generosity in ecology
That we all care for together
as light as a feather
dancing on our fraying ever-rising high-wire
Collapsing what will we prioritize before we expire?
