For Bill & Us
How could I leave you?
When you are all
I have ever
known.
I love too many
to ever
abandon ~
for 10 years now
never giving up
with love
silent in the periphery
that’s where you kept me
and others
banished
but we are still here
many alone
aging now and ill
a life devoted, with no title
white walled one bedroom friendless end of life
silent, gentle suffering, like him.
I just texted that I loved him last week,
my goodbye.
We must firstly be aware,
unplug
recreate community that faces
each other,
not the principal
and then love and
take care of each other
no matter what profound darkness
has befallen.
It’s time finally to
include and value *all*
starting today
despite our culture
of youth, wealth
and narcissism
great bliss & stain wrapped in brocade
for centuries
revealed.
Our love
and conscience,
are much stronger
a carbon based diamond prism,
going forward
is choice-less.
We will become
better than ever before
in the Shambles
and Ashes
like a phoenix of human
decency
that arises from the
violent fire.
Let us be reborn not into
lofty rainbow body aspirations,
but simple
earthy
care from here, to our small children,
and theirs.
Make that vow again
renewed
feel it alive from flesh to bone
you now have your offering
of body, speech and mind
an activists protest of beating heart
passion
and softened eye madness~
may we be mad
not one day longer,
the gate is now open again for all.
The Kingdom is nothing more
and nothing less than genuine
love.
Tantra is the continuity of that.
Samaya is that which sees beyond fear
to unconditioned space
where there has never been any trace
of punishment.
We are the conduits of warmth
so ordinary, so simple.
I wish only that my arms were so wide
as vast as the earth itself
to wrap the whole planet with love
and healing~
all tears dry.
Let us feel the poignancy
and preciousness of each other
our families, the earth, animals~
and work
to foster the source of true,
nonviolent peace
a revolution of
recovering
the best that’s within us all
starting right
now
we reclaim this colorful Kingdom Mandala as ours.
We are the Earth Protectors,
it’s always
been us.
Dawn Boiani 