LET US UNITE AND SAVE THE WORLD, TOGETHER
1 February 2015
Saving or destroying the world
is a choice – a simple choice
for cynics and defeatists and cowards to mock
and for the brave and determined merely to do.
Let us dare to recognise the constant of change.
Let us dare to open our minds to it.
Let us dare to be different.
Let us dare to be mocked.
Let us dare to guide the lost.
Let us dare to fail and try again –
and again and again and again.
Let us know the triumph of failure
and the glory of repeated failures
for failure is merely the badge of attempt and determination,
an achievement of note
and without which we fade into nothing and die.
Let us dare to smile
through our tears
and face and conquer our fears
and look back and wonder
why we let them keep us prisoners.
Let us want, with united breath,
to save the world, one element, one baby step, at a time
and let us go ahead and do it.
Let us not wait until the well is dry
to learn the value of water.
Let us tread lightly and with compassion
on field and the hearts of foes.
Let us awaken in the seed of our beings
that which builds and nurtures and illuminates.
Let us use our skills and talents
to blend old wisdoms and modern living.
Let us cherish and honour the moral code
which bonds us, teaches us, protects us
limits us to that which is good for all.
Let us paint a wide-sky future
for a diverse but united world.
Let the wind and rain cleanse us of greed
and replace it with the exhilaration of giving.
Let us take from the earth and each other
that which is freely given and only what we need,
and let us return those gifts a thousandfold.
Let us remember we chose our leaders
and let us choose wisely those who truly lead.
Let us use our complaints to find solutions.
Let us clear the garbage from our minds
and fill them with forest-air.
Let us expose the delicious secrets
of harmony and balance
and savour them on our tongues
with exquisite delight.
Let us excite in each other
a desire to protect, nurture and revere, each day
at least one person, one animal, one plant, one idea, one beauty
and uncover one ugliness to expose the beauty underneath.
Let us look for a problem a day, to solve
in the pleasure of the path to unity.
Let us notice and relish
the microcosmic and macrocosmic
wonders of our miracle world
of multiple hidden simplicities
and intriguing complexities.
Let our spirits grow our spirituality
and harness them with power for progress.
Let them overflow their limits
and flood the earth with the growth and joy
that our planet offers, if only we accept them,
so that all beings can celebrate them together.
Let us do, say and think that which is positive and effective
for what purpose would any other actions, words and thoughts serve?
Let us embrace our differences
and use them to repair and strengthen
what we cannot ourselves -
and revel in our similarities
in song and dance
of body and mind.
Let us take the effort that comes from caring
and wrap it around the world in adoration.
Let us take the camaraderie we know
and leak it to a namaste, ubuntu world.
Let us invest in the youth, the spring of our world,
to blossom in their summer,
and consolidate in their autumn,
and pass on to earth’s progeny in their winter.
Let us grow humility
to drown our pride and egocentricity.
Let us stimulate our intellect
and explode in all, the joy of thought.
Let the buck stop with us.
The solution is as difficult as it is easy.
Are you in?
