Rootsie

We have spent these
many dark centuries
saying no and no:
What happens
when we say yes?
Don’t ask yes to what,
just say it and feel your mouth
stretch and smile.
‘No’ speaks to smallness
the furrowed brow
the pursed lips
of the severe schoolmistress.
Say yes to whatever comes
and unleash the true teaching,
for yes attracts only what is good.
However it may appear
you will look back one day
and see that this too was good.

The world is littered with the refuse
of all we have refused.
We throw up our hands
and cast away the cup.
What would you do
if you had the power?
Whatever it is, do it.
Because you do.
‘The few, the rich, the white’
provide an out for you.
You can just blame them.
They possess no more power than you
though everybody thinks they do.
What they choose to direct their power to
will reap its own reward,
as the corruption of intention
seals their fate.
These are not platitudes,
but the principles.
You can set your watch by them.
You can learn when to wait
and when to move.
The difference between creation
and destruction
is everything.
Worship creation only
and to destruction-nothing.
Like the wise bard said,
‘Nothing comes of nothing’