We Are the Earth Waking Up
Matthew Austin Williams
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In this wintertime of gross materialism The expected death after five millennia of biocidal religion Disembodied science Racial propaganda Cynical political manipulation And wealth and mind symbolism over matter We are the earth waking up You may well ask: how can you know of the building blocks of the universe? That the universe is mental? That the universe is composed of love like the ocean is composed of water? The edge of matter dissolves back into the formless realm, a blurry transition, a gradual boundary We are the earth waking up You've been there Remember sound of light at the boundaries of sleeping? The force that, if allowed, pulls pain to the surface of the mind, the pain of the body erupts It all releases, and blooms like a water lily from the mud? We are the earth waking up By what bidding came the bloom of the water lily? The seed to sprout and grow? This tiny product of death, itself dead, to magnetize the whirring elements of vegetable consciousness? We are the earth waking up We are the earth waking up Remember how your body persists The liver red with life and lymph white with death The dance of mammalian consciousness parading in spite of the Roman grid The stress of gridlock as concussive on soft bodies as the linebacker on the gridiron These square fields, square streets, square buildings, square bedrooms On our eminently spherical earth The vertical risers a mathematical abstraction pointing to the center of gravity Also an abstraction We are the earth waking up We are the earth waking up Remember when, as a child You rose from your nighttime resting place and slowly circled below the ceiling fan Yet never moved a muscle? Remember the dreams of pinwheels on the ferry boat and the sky and flirtatious adolescents And how you watched it all unfold years later? We are the earth waking up Nobody can prove this to you: nobody but yourself The experience of cosmic love arises naturally after years of disciplined study Rigorous thought, measured action, dedicated meditation, and fervent prayer Even in spite of all of these We are the earth waking up My consciousness may break through to universal love during play Lovemaking, sitting by a brook The leaves of grass and cottonwoods sound like shimmering light on eternal oceans Spring vibrant rustles into dusty summer green and fall's yellow helicopters to rushing waters We are the earth waking up Love forms the context for hate The consciousness of the universe consists of love We experience this as compassion for the suffering The intuitive satisfaction in a well-expressed painting, poem, prose; bridge, skyscraper, road The branching river, veins of a hand or leaf, or government Jokes We are the earth waking up
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