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Details: Friday, 15 January 2021; Written by Eve Moore

Otherhood

Sometimes a wrecking ball

isn’t the best way to bring

down an ailing structure.

A decrepit edifice,

an old paradigm.

Whether a literal

thing, place

or person.

For it creates a

kind and quantity

of rubble that takes

time and treasure—

perhaps sweat,

tears and blood,

to clean up.

Rather, it seems

wise to allow forces

of higher purpose to

dismantle what needs

dismantling, enabling a

natural series of events

to play out their roles

whether as agents of

disintegration, or

of compost.

Sometimes it takes

a kind of neutron ball

to raze what no longer

supports habitation

and its many

life forms.

Energy summoned

to hold highest good

to manifest amidst

energies being

summoned for

other means.

And ends.

There is a kind of fever

attendant in the waiting,

the wanting of the

essential, the

inexorable

clearing

to occur.

I’m reminded of a scene

in a film* wherein a bunch

of unruly children were only

becalmed, silenced, by

a video of a house

being demolished.

Yes. There is that.

But there is also a choice

enfolded in the time it takes

to allow a thing that is ripe,

overripe, to fall from a tree.

To be made into

something nourishing,

like lunch, cider,

a pot of jam.

That perennial choice

between allowing

and controlling.

Sometimes it is a

fuzzy distinction,

even a difficult

choice.

Other times,

it couldn’t be

more clear.

Our great mother

teaches us the

benevolence

of cycles on

this land.

Should we resist

their rounding ways,

ever in flux/flow, we will

continue to trap ourselves

in circles, chasing our

tails and blaming

them for their

goading.

It is, of course,

unnecessary,

for all is well

in hand.

If we trust

that it is so.

Letting our revolutions

be a peaceable ride

round our magnificent

sun, all of us, or spun

round something

which shoots

and isn’t

a star.

We are joined in

this moment to want

something more, better,

brighter, than has been

before. It is the glue

that binds us to

each other.

To all that is

and can be.

It is the realization

that life is urging

us to make real:

brotherhood,

sisterhood,

otherhood.

We are family.

Earthkind. Let us

remember that it is

our opportunity, in this

life, to turn what we’ve

long experienced as

dysfunction into

a functioning

state of

union.

Right

where

we live.

*Elizabethtown: great film.

∞/∞

Eve Moore: Once a professional writer of advertising, I saw the light & it has shown me words of a different nature. And so I take them down & offer them up. And all is well.

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“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
—Jimi Hendrix

This poem was submitted exclusively to CrystalWind.ca by Eve Moore.

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