Thursday, May 31, 2012

What should I do now?

Standing Wolf whoseesus

Yet we can learn from Wolf
There is still time
To get life from awareness
Joy from singing
Have done with roads
Walk only on trails
Be only in communion
Seldom talking

Admired proud Teacher
Totem of nomadic humans
Wolf had lived
A blameless family life
For 19 million years before us
Playing with the children
Surviving bitter Winter  ice ages
Summer heat then
Unrelenting persecution genocides
From the agricultural science clans
Who have brought all life
On the Planet
To the point of extinction
In merely 200 years or so
Of petroleum fueled destruction
We do not extend our notions of democracy
To other life
Where we build roads
We destroy habitat
And we build roads
Everywhere land sea and air
In compulsive addiction
To traveling
Without conversation
With the land or its inhabitants
We chatter only with each other
In compulsive addiction
To talking instead of observing
Instead of witnessing
Instead of communing

When Wolf travels
She merges with the Land
Flows with it
Silently
Alert
Aware
As Salmon in River
We whether travelling
Or sitting
Close out habitat
Live in a dead cocoon
Sheltered from Weather
Where we look
We see only
What our tools
Have constructed
Transitory images laid
On mountains of waste
Pouring from the jaws
Of our waste-making machines
Talking walking riding
We ignore our surroundings

Yet we can learn from Wolf
There is still time
To get life from awareness
Joy from singing
Have done with roads
Walk only on trails
Be only in communion
Seldom talking

Donato May 29  12




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