Consider This a Prayer

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My Culture

is western Euro-centric

and Patriarchal

at its base.

It is filled

with self-righteousness

which washes out

any awareness

of the limits of its thinking.

It is Human Centered

and Absorbed,

not with the breadth

of understandings of Human Cultures,

but rather enamored by its own thinking.

This ideology has split

with the Life Force

of this Earth.

Actions of my Kind

may come

from Naivete,

Immaturity,

or Self Absorption.
Actions of my Kind
exhibit a kind of powerless
which makes change
seemingly unreachable.

Tragically,

such Humans

are Pied Pipers

seeking to woo away

other Cultures

from their Traditional Beliefs

to that which is "better",

a model of themselves.

Regardless,

these Humans

and those who wannabe

like them

are on a Path of Destruction,

a Path of Death.

Media with Blinders

conspires 

to support interests
of Sponsors. 

Such Media focuses

on Economics as bottom line.

Such Media forgets

Ecology is bottom line.

Deep in the Hearts

of all

who live at this time

is a recognition

that we are in trouble. 

The Women know it most,

Children and Elderly too.

When will we wake up?

Can we wake up?

Consider this a prayer.

~~~~

Glinda Crawford, 2011

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