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Surrender


The doorway to transformation

Is built on surrender

Acceptance of what is

Allows space to grow

Clinging to outdated beliefs

Serves no one but tyrants

Justifications for murder abound

The answers only found

Within our own hearts

As much as we

Say it is all

Illusion

Do we truly understand

The nature of collusion

Islands we are not

Our realities intimately connected

With all living beings

To think we can

Escape the law of

Cause and effect is

Foolish

Denial avoidance and disconnection

Does not equate to detachment

Polarity defining the binary

Is not the same

As willfully and deliberately

Claiming rights to murder

Granted by devious aristocrats

Desperately hoping to cling

To ill-begotten power undeserved

By making us question

Our allegiance to humanity

Now are the times

Foretold in our myths

That we must choose

To stand in truth

Or crumble in lies

Middleground is non-existent when

Two wrongs are deemed

Right forcing us to

Fight among ourselves about

Whose murder machines offer

A chance of salvation

Meanwhile knowing full well

There are no sides

Only planetary citizens united

By our dependence on

The air we breathe

The earth we tread

The water we drink

The fire in our veins

Reminding us that separation

Is the greatest deception

We do not hold

You to account because

We hate you

We love you

We hate to see

You destroy yourself in

Pursuit of worthless ideals

That bred the delusion

Of individualism and suffering

Rather than establishing firm

Boundaries

So your childish fervour

For war and annihilation

Does not threaten community

Built on values of

Universal truth and interconnectedness

Truly I am because

You are not mere

Stolen words bereft of

Meaning

Deep knowing heartfelt oneness

Described in the scriptures

Proven by metaphysical sciences

But yet denied by

The masses

Follow

Only your heart

You will know

When it is time

To arise

In love

Blind to the reality

Of cause and effect

Embittered sinners lament not

Their own misguided deeds

But instead seek to

Cast blame on others

Those not quite

Right enough

White enough

Tight enough

With old colonial narratives

Those who don't

Sit down enough

Shut up enough

Look away enough

When facing mass genocide

Those who can't

Condone this shit

Be complicit in it

Keep trying to fit

Into outdated modes of being

For the first time truly seeing

Consequences

Of long-forgotten actions

Chickens

Coming home to roost

Being called pestilence

As denial runs deeper

Than Zionist pockets

Willing us to abandon

Our humanity

Our sanity

Our faith

Our trust

Our spirit

We remember who we are

We know we are love

We refuse to be co-opted

Into supporting pure evil

Advancing agendas

Of death and destruction

Lulling us into oblivion

Medicated and sedated

Begging for more

Scientific intervention

We reject the lies

Our only ties

To our heartsong

We have survived

For so long

We will continue

To resist

 
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