may we all be heard
words are bells
let them ring!


Thom World Poet Austin, Texas, USA
Global Radical networker and activist for promoting the live Creative Arts,
at every possible opportunity, especially in his home-city, Austin, Texas, USA


Friday, July 16, 2010

(dealing with)COMPULSORY CHANGE

come to a wall.too high to deny
it could be worse(death/total health breakdown
it could be better(respect-attunement,response!
the wall is real.it is non-negotiable
when you try to walk around-it grows exponentially
when you try to fly over,it rises higher
when you dig beneath,it sends roots treelike ever deeper
this is real.what would you do?
1.sit and wait for walls to fall
(they will in timescales way beyond yours
2.cry or sing about the injustice of walls
(all walls wail ,but we `do not listen
3.seek a world without walls
(this will happen-long after you have departed
4Meanwhile,you have to reconcile with terrorism
You need to negotiate with emotional bomb threats
with gods of walls and goddesses of gates
you will listen to litanies of wall stories-
THE GREAT ESCAPE,Houdini,Chicken Run,Toy Story 3
Eventually,you will become more enamored of stories
than the idea of escape.You will make your cell within walls
and wait.Change is loose and afoot.Walls are shaking,trembling
Everywhere,they fall like Berlin.You think you are free
Time is a limit.Your Free Will meets Destiny
Only one wall remains....Compulsory change...

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