Another Round of Reckoning

Actually it's just another poem scrawled in my journal, so let's call it Journalizm #108:

Life is terminal, yet

Everlasting at the same time

At that critical crux,

The apex of an immeasurable complex

On which we walk a fine line

Down an axis of symmetry

A juxtapositioned reality

Of everything imagined

And its equal, opposite reaction

Yes it is what it seems to be

Whatever we make it out to be

Whether its balanced and free

Or shaped by the rigid pyramidic hierarchy

Claiming everything as property

Like some kind of chessboard monopoly

Controlling time and space?

Only a mastered individual

Can achieve the true global inner peace

Conquering the timelords of war

By destroying restrictions and limits

Claiming a sovereignty of timelessness

In immortal ambivalence

Moment-by-moment, forever endless

Without the shadow of a doubt

Or imagined demons of fear

The spectres of our collective reflection

Are the illusions clouding our mirror

But now here it's all clear

Tis what it is, tis what we make it out to be

All ways to infinity

From "Woman and Nature"

One small segment, though the vital heart, of the poetic prose masterpiece Woman and Nature by Susan Griffin, called "Lion in the Den of the Prophets":

She swaggers in. She is terrified of their white hairlessness. She waits, she watches, she does not move. She is measuring their moves. And they are measuring her. Cautiously one takes a bit of her fur. He cuts it free from her. He examines it. Another numbers her feet, her teeth, the length and width of her body. She yawns. They announce she is alive. They wonder what she will do if they enclose her in the room with them. One of them shuts the door. She backs her way toward the closed doorway and then roars. "Be still," the men say. She continues to roar. "Why does she roar?" they ask. The roaring must be inside her, they conclude. They decide they must see the roaring inside her. They approach her in a group, six at her two front legs, six at her two back legs. They are trying to put her to sleep. She swings at one of them. His own blood runs over him. "Why did she do that?" the men question. She has no soul, they conclude, she does not know right from wrong. "Be still," they shout at her. "Be humble, trust us," they demand. "We have souls," they proclaim, "we know what is right", they approach her with their medicine, "for you." She does not understand this language. She devours them.

--Go get the book Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her and read the rest of Susan Griffin's amazing metaphorical meanderings on the nature of woman. It's been a great way for me, being a man and all, to see what goes on in the consciousness of Woman. It should be required reading, in my opinion. Maybe then there wouldn't be so many cocky male a-holes in the world trying to show how powerful and dominant they are over people they feel are lesser than them.

Here are some more quotes from Susan Griffin.

Another Rambling "Poem"

Concerning the general bitterness and apathy
Of modern American humanity, "civilized" by society
Unaware of their brainwashed mentality
Inundated by patriotic patriarchal propaganda
Propagated by the slavemaster pyramid scam plan to
Dominate and control every inch of the globe
Overthrowing the natural Balance of our collective soul
By instigating a perpetual cycle of violence
Attacking the psyche of every man, woman, and child
Born wild, yet socialized to death
Unless they fight it until the last breath
In a perennial struggle against falling fast asleep
Not to become like the living zombies, the sheep
Complacent conformists on the streets
Or rich tourists in their $300/night suites
Only here to enjoy the exploitation of Earth Mother
And to escape from the all-pervasive drudgery
The work-a-day monotony of capitalistic slavery
Has intelligent people fooled into knavery
And I can't say it's just naivete, cuz its not
It's more likely those tricks of the matrix
Has them enjoying the life of a robot
Programmed to follow every command ordered from the top
Including blind allegiance to every rigid policy
Restricting our freedom and subverting our democracy
For the favor of a few corrupt corporate CONmen
Posing as conservative, yet actually Neo-communist fascists
Wanting everyone to just submit silently, conform quietly
While corporations commit their coup d'etat
Hijacking this nation of minds for a criminal conspiracy
But soon they will see that a people born free
Will not easily be led back to slavery or tyranny
Cuz now there's too many of us that have awakened from sleep...