A Poem For Today - We are alive and this is life as we know it

[KEN DICKINSON]



from our very own Kurt

We are alive and this is life as we know it

We experience our lives through this tiny window

inside this enormous electromagnetic spectrum. 

It is tiny because our world is seen 

through this narrow band of visible light waves

and heard through an equally narrow band of audio sound waves.

Yet within these limits  we can hear all other animals

and the world of machines we have created, 

plus the sound of the human voice 

and the music we humans can create.

Nevertheless we have continued to expand 

what we can see and hear 

by expanding the height and depth of our vision 

and understanding through our social contract 

of historical accumulation. 

Here we are only limited by our belief system 

that can narrow our minds 

through these primitive religious beliefs.

These are the beliefs that were given to us

by our parents and ancestors,

and the social historical world around us 

as we grew into it as babies, toddlers and youths.

Our eyes have some limits that we have overcome

through our collective acceptance of education 

so that although the world around us appears flat 

based on what we can see from our mountain tops, 

we accept that it is a large globe that is so big it appears flat. 

And through the beauty that we have created 

as humans in art, music and science, 

we can see that there is something more to our nature 

than the flat and dull that at times seems to surround us.

We can know the infinite worlds 

through our telescopes and microscopes, 

and read the infinite from our social history, 

and hear the infinite in the silence 

inside the quiet of our relaxed minds.

All of this greatness is reflected in our world 

when we can see past the belief systems 

imposed by religions and blind ignorance.

By the ridiculous blindness of our acceptance 

that we humans are the center of the Universe 

and that GOD must look like us, 

a He not a She GOD.

These very primitive beliefs lie at the bottom 

of our concept of human life,

egocentric, flat and male dominant.

Perhaps it is time to have a look at ourselves, 

to look for a god within us, 

to light us up.

Kurt Heyl

[Patricia Rios]

Wow...! 

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[Isabel Torres-Carrilho]

Wow indeed!

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I really like this poem!!

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