Some Credit
In a recent post, “Shame”
It dawned on me that I wrote
That I, too, have done nothing
To make this a better world by
Having started or participated
In a peaceful revolution as it goes
Which is unfortunately very true
However, I realized I did do something
By not doing anything to add more
People to an already over-full planet
No one to waste her resources
Exponentially excremental
Pollute her ground or breathable air
Cut off her hair (trees) or dig deep
To (mine) every last drop of energy
“Her love rains down on me
As easy as the breeze
I listen to her breathing
It sounds like the waves on the sea
I was thinking all about her,
Burning with rage and desire
We were spinning into darkness
The earth was on fire
She could take it back,
She might take it back someday
So I spy on her, I lie to her,
I make promises I can not keep
Then I hear her laughter rising,
Rising from the deep
And I make her prove her love for me,
I take all that I can take
And I push her to the limit
To see if she will break
She might take it back,
She could take it back someday
Now I have seen the warnings,
Screaming from all sides
It’s easy to ignore them and
God knows I’ve tried
All of this temptation,
It turned my faith to lies
Until I couldn’t see the danger
Or hear the rising tide
She can take it back,
She will take it back someday
She can take it back,
She will take it back someday
She can take it back,
She will take it back someday. “
– Pink Floyd
“Take It Back” from The Division Bell
Therefore, I did not add anyone to
Roll over, click, cut, copy, paste, and
Indoctrinate with my beliefs, which
May be completely wackadoodle or
Thoroughly reasonable and questioning
To teach one to decipher and compete
With other people’s beliefs of
Invisible men living in the sky
Causing constant consternation
No proof, only persistent perception
No one who needed to pretend
Faux ownership in sports franchises
(“My”team” won the blah, blah, blah)
So they could “have” a team to
Argue endlessly and mindlessly
Over useless status statistics
Knowing more about the players
Than teachers or principals
Librarians, health classes, or
Practice financial well-being
Dodge bullets in an enclosed
Locked up space that probably
Spends more money on security than books
Modifying socially acceptable behavior
Instead of questioning for deep understanding
To advance a peaceable living world
That in the eons of infinity
Lasts only a brief moment
……… Neither that, or have to explain
Why another invisible dude, Santa Claus
Brings more stuff to rich kids than poor kids
Or have to clarify why being born through
The accident of birth on one part of a sphere
Has more credence than others because their
Flappy cloth rectangle stands for something
Different to everyone waving it, than other cloths
I write this neither to be
Boastful or proud
“Don’t be proud. Too much pride as it is.
Pride goeth before a fall. Never forget Proverbs.” (Proverbs 16:18)
– George Carlin
But rather, as a reflection of a
Deeply divine spiritual satisfaction
Knowing how much I accomplished
By doing absolutely nothing
To which there is no shame
“I know in Norway
You are all about the environment
You have a lot of stringent
Rules and regulations about recycling
Yeah! How many babies can you have?
As many as you want?
Then all the other shit…is pointless.”
– Doug Stanhope
Adding no one to believe
In a deceptive democracy
That their vote counts
When it is as much of a distraction
As football, the economy, or war
Race, sexuality, gender, or wealth
“My solipsistic worldview
Does not allow me to see
What may be real reality.”
– Angelo Devlin
Sometimes doing nothing means “doing” a lot. It depends on the perspective… and sometimes that’s the greatest thing ” to do” 🙏💫
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