light in dark times

upon completing the 15 minute repair it took three days to get done
I felt a particularly helpful thought arise within
in regards to the coming global economic crunch times

there seems at least to be a growing consensus
of those willing to look at the reality of our situation
that economic collapse is as imminent
as our society is ill-prepared

October is the best guess
for the final tanking of the dollar

unless interrupted by the civil unrest
generated by the forced vaccination campaign
and arrest of resistors
simultaneously scheduled

or some concocted pretext
for World War III
also in the works

____________

I've considered a number of strategies
to meet needs for self-protection

before the singular thought shone through
proclaiming

I am already dead

what a relief to remember my mortality

there is a reason I suppose
I chose not to have kids
and this is likely it

so I can maintain my liberty until the end
choosing between dumpster diving

and sitting on the bank of a river
discontinuing eating
until I perish
and roll in

you may think this awfully maudlin
morose and overly dramatic
or just insane

it is liberating

for now I know I will neither run
nor fight

________

thus in the meantime
I will have all that precious energy and attention saved

for imploring community celebrations
while living with a loincloth
and pot on my head

unafraid to speak truth to power
suggesting the Central Bank be dismantled
amnesty granted to all nonviolent prisoners
and a jubilee of debt forgiveness for everyone

it would be a way for the criminals in charge
to save their skins
and repent

for there is a time coming
and it may be a month
or it may be another 10,000 years

when the forces of creation
will again find balance

and I want to be there
with you

__________


if I must go to prison
or be sacrificed in a death camp
along the way

I will go dancing
in community with my ancestors

and descendents with no enemies

looking to the end
for the rainbow bridge
between heaven and earth

knowing polyrhythmic prayer
sung in witness to the miracle of life

persists