"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves,
and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love
only the reflection\n of ourselves we find in them."
- Thomas Merton
Ok one more time...
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Spring Murmuration of the Heart
The Cape's Bird Man outlined
The chapters of his forthcoming book,
Of how trench warfare of words and attitudes
Grows deeper and more adverse
Between the right and left
Leaving the marginalized drowning in the wake.
Yet , he observes how birds come and go faster than people
And how they don't act worried.
Even the the Great Teacher observed how sparrows and other
Winged messengers don't seem overly concerned
As somehow they know they are loved.
They say it is instinct for starlings to fly in murmurations ,
Communal constructing of complex spectacles
Swirling in seemingly aimless wild group flight.
Their secret mission is their common welfare, their communal preservation,
Their collective love and mutual selflessness in unison.
Iconoclastic stragglers and prodigals become vulnerable
To hungry hawks and those mischaracterized predatory eagles.
Other feathered paracletes mimic the starlings .
Who did it first is not of concern nor competition.
Meanwhile sentient beings have possibly devolved to be more lost by being locked down
And continue less concerned about who really inherited the earth or the wind.
Starlings and most likely most of the divine's creatures may not worry about
Or miss the absence and demise of humans . Many of the Homo Sapiens really
Don't seem to care much about the common good....
Hiding in their own nests, filling them up with this or that.
Or maybe, just maybe these two legged creations forgot their own murmuration
Or maybe they just don't love themselves or each other
As much as they say they do or
As much as the poets and mystics speculate.
- JF Sobecki
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What the World Need Now - Jackie DeShannon
This song is still quite relevant
Give me Love - G. Harrison
What's So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding - N. Lowe
Change Myself - T. Rundgren
We Can Work it Out - The Beatles
Quote from "The Princess Bride" - Mandy Patinkin
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- Lennon and McCartney
