A Global Community Voice Will Change the World

I sent this to a politician tonight who responded to the other poem I wrote to key parliamentarians. I felt inspired to write in response to the carbon tax. I believe in having a voice and I am not interested in giving my vote. I wish to live the democracy that I am told I live in. I expressed this to the politician, I wonder if he truly heard my voice?

Speak up even if you think you are not heard, just keep expressing truth with respect as you see it. I would stress nonviolently and non aggressively as true democracy learns from perspectives rather than opposing and disliking the so called ‘other’ for differing. This is the heart of creativity to have diversity and tensions, but without violence.

This is how we change the world into a vision of something greater. I see that vision and believe we all collectively can create positive change with respect for all.

A VOICE NOT A VOTE

A voice not a vote,
Thoughtfulness not rote,
Inclusivity means we don’t exclude anyone
on the basis of any characteristic,
For discrimination is bias,
And ignorance is rampant,
When a society is dumbed down.

I have listened to many professors,
I have listened to many politicians,
I have listened to experts,
But few understand their platitudes,
Their grandiose statements,
Their passion about the world,
Many speak out of filters,
For some are economists,
Some are international relations experts,
Others are lawyers,
Politicians of note,
Yet to me it is rote for I see the game,
Names differ but the faces are the same,
Conservatism wears many masks,
And many don’t see their awkwardness,
Their psychological walls,
That prevent the heart from being seen,
For it is the heart that sets us free,
To live in real comm-unity,
And this is not a discussion,
It is connection where one sees themselves in the other.

Some think emotions are weakness,
Some feel love is an irrelevant word,
Some feel humanity is unprofessional,
Others discern the poet as the fool,
Yet this is the rule of universal law,
That only the fool can find,
For when you let go,
When you let flow,
When you give up,
You become one with life itself,
And just because this isn’t a university course,
Doesn’t invalidate a philosophy,
Others may feel they have to prove,
For they are skeptical,
Others see no scientific basis,
For they are looking for models,
Others see the mystical as fantasy,
But is it not fantasy living in an economic system destroying
the very foundation of life?

The true democrat is not political,
They seek not influence but collaboration,
The true inclusive culture is not structural,
It seeks equality in policy,
The truly enlightened are most definitely conservationists,
They conserve and pre-serve acting as revisionists,
For we must revise the operating paradigm,
For it is the boy in the bubble that sees no life outside,
Yet life is dying rapidly,
Climate change is burning winter,
The summer solace is expanding,
The wildlife is receding,
For we are bleeding,
In wars of terror,
Of our own making,
For the taking,
As oil is liquid gold.

The captains of industry are sinking the titanic,
Grabbing the spoils as we go down,
Unless we wake up and take a hard look,
Step out of our boxes,
Stop judging other perceptions,
For the world is many things,
Your reality is simply your own,
But I am here to tell you,
Time is running through the hourglass,
Evolution must be the revolution,
Starting now,
For our time is almost up.

Will you sink or swim?