DESTINY GOES VIRAL
Say something about Destiny?
I have nothing to say about Destiny.
It has quite a bit to say about me
though.
And you, friends.
It’s saying quite a bit right now.
. . . Remember?
Remember how it was when the calendar turned to this new millennium,
timezone-by-timezone?
A seamless televised unfolding. A glorious, numinous, roaring
world gala.
Humankind aligned
on something universal,
utterly un-partisan.
Ecstatic us, clear on the size of that moment.
Once in a lifetime—ours. The planet of us,
paying attention, hearing the same beat, dancing the big archetypal turning.
And now we get another chance, a chance,
this time, at a unity that could save us,
people and planet.
Now, the whole world at attention again, on one same Covid page,
outside of our must-go-do,
we who are well and awake could all be clambering
for the mic, for the floor, for the headlines,
for good
and blasting out the truth —
Corona has felled us, the forest of our collective lives.
Control rests with a WHAT, not a who.
Hear it yelling? “Stop now! Will YOU listen? YOU must choose! While I have YOUR
attention!”
Just look at the blaring maps and photos, Nature’s Powerpoints,
that shout for a blue-sky return of conscience,
now that toxic clouds have lifted to show us what can shine again.
We can have this . . . if we stop the ploys and games, the poison, the blame.
Conjure lungs that breathe
without pain.
It’s our birthright.
Crave that breath
for our children, grands, and great grands.
It’s our blood longing.
Be the global parent-adults now, grands and great-grands
who remember Earth and community and hold these hallowed for our beloveds.
It’s in our bones to do. Here, control rests with a WHO.
Now while normal is suspended until further notice, if then,
Now while those of us with homes are directed to stay in them,
Now while even the urgent that’s typical gets pre-empted
by the urgent that’s terminal . . . (Do we need more alarms?)
DO YOU FEEL THIS TOO ?! —
Each of us is
organ-by-organ
one body
one vulnerable elegant body
zero politics
bent on living.
We are
culture-by-culture
one body
one vulnerable elegant body
so weary of the war and the politics
so ripe for healing.
We depend on
ocean-by-ocean, continent-by-continent
one body
one vulnerable elegant blue-green body
now wasting, from bad deals and vaunting partisan power wasting,
and waiting, waiting for the 100th monkey of 20/20-visioned mind-changers (look in the
mirror)
to find its most mobilizing stadium voice,
its cable-Twitter-Instagram-Facebook-Zoom voice,
and for all as one body to finally hear and heed.
It is for us humans, now, while all are on this same Covid page, to finally get
that we cannot go back and sleep yet again,
that we must utterly repair
our cells
our selves in community
our selecting of leaders
our sense of other, when “other” is really us
our sense of us, when “us” is really one global human neighborhood
our sentinel watch over each other’s well-being, well-doing,
for our collective sake,
for the love of our elegant blue-green body,
while
there is still time
to turn together
and together
turn around.
- Irene Myers 4/12/20
Photo credit: Theresa V. Burciaga
Irene Myers is a life-and-career/retirement coach by vocation, a fiddler of traditional Nordic music by avocation, and a poet by gravitation. As a coach, Irene has co-creatively helped people navigate work and life transitions since 1991. She brought to the profession a new model she authored, Archetypes of Calling, to facilitate more compelling, meaningful and sustainable work and life choices. In her work, music and writing she is committed to promoting happiness, well-being and beauty through pattern recognition that leads to new thinking and effective action, and through fostering and creating harmony—personal, interpersonal and musical harmony. Irene incorporates coaching, poetry and fiddling in her ongoing workshop series “On the Verge—Incubating Your Next Big Thing.” Her writing and her traditional and original music (CD entitled Sommarstormen) have contributed to John de Graaf’s book Take Back Your Time—Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America and his documentary Redefining Prosperity—the Gold Rushes of Nevada City.