I
The human body is made of 37 trillion cells.
There’s 8.4 billion humans on Earth.
That’s over 16 billion hands to do the work
of undoing the disconnection,
which brings us to the now
of instant gratification
and perpetual forgetfulness.
The disease of loneliness is spreading
like an epidemic
that leaves a single tree standing
where there was once
a forest.
My journey through life
is a lot like yours,
carried by a 100,000 miles of blood vessels
pumping life into lungs
that take in 5% of oxygen.
But it’s getting hard to breathe.
So much so,
that we are click baited with countless forms of strangulation.
“I can’t breath!” moved the consciousness of a nation,
I wonder how it will move its feet?
II
Oil companies make 100 billion dollars a year.
The observable universe has 100 billion galaxies.
Human fallacy would like us to believe
that the truth of our wholeness
comes from the little things we can see.
But the truth is,
whether or not you can see stars in your night sky,
if you are standing just right,
2,000 stars are visible to the unaided eye.
III
We travel
584 million miles around the sun in one year.
Orbiting one star.
Our galaxy holds 300 billion.
The poetry of the unknown
is written in the indescribable.
We’re unfolding pages from the universal bible.
IV
Galaxies move towards each other
like souls not yet born
know when to return
to meet their lover.
Andromeda is moving towards the Milky Way
at 250,000 miles per hour-
a speed that would get us to the moon in just under an hour.
We won't be here when they collide.
Our sun will long have faded.
But when they do,
they will be mirrors of what we used to do,
when love dipped into the divine
before the divide in us
became more
than the great pretending
of current human history.
V
Change is constant
like the universe
is expanding
@ 2006
(Oil company stat reflects that timeline.)
