Humanity is at an evolutionary crossroads where we are challenged to choose between regeneration and cultural decline, even extinction, if we continue with business as usual - in this poem I ask if we have the capacity to initiate a new culture based on universal Human Values.
Deliverance
Every year the Earth
Gives birth to new life –
But what about us?
Can we give birth
To a new culture,
A culture of love
A culture of wisdom
A culture of truth
A culture of justice
A culture of freedom
A culture of kindness
A culture of peace
A culture of beauty?
Or will we remain
Huddled in darkness
Trapped in fear
Stifled by control
Cowed into compliance
Cancelled by censors -
Unable to breathe freely,
Sleepwalking backwards
Into digital slavery?
Deep grief wells up -
A sense of human future lost,
Of time being short,
Earth in the balance,
Breakdown and breakthrough
Coming into view.
Will this culture of hope
Be stillborn again?
Or can we finally deliver
This new world together
With courage and love?
The Earth has long awaited
This moment of deliverance
From violence and secrecy,
From deception and evil.
The world can torture
And crucify the good
But the light of love
Endures,
Comes through –
Human hearts crack open,
The birth pangs of one humanity
Awakening oh so slowly,
Agonisingly
Emerging
From the cave of suffering
To greet the rising sun.
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