To Be…

A world of violence
A world of war
A world of terror
Or do you want more?

A world of peace
Of diversity and learning
A world of reason
And kindness are you yearning?

One god is the desire to die
To go on high and find the life of
Every fevered dream you can conjure
All male-centred and straight and devoid

Of diversity and complexity
No grey zones no need to compromise
All given and nothing to give
Selfish and hollow and fake

What do you want in this life?
To destroy everyone
To make it through
Be finally acknowledged?

How about find validation
From within.
Find self-esteem
Through hard work and grit

There is no here-after
No actions in the here-and-now
Which can bring
The Rapture…

Simply because it does not exist.

The true horror of being alive
Is that this is all we have.
There is nothing else when we
die.

Life is all we have.

You cannot let yourself off the hook
Believing and praying and knowing.
You cannot let yourself off the hook
Attacking and hurting and murdering.

We only have what we have right now
In this moment is what we are
How we treat each other
Is all we have.

Three different hues strive
To stay alive
To defeat the others
To be the only ones who thrive

In the afterlife
In death
They have faith
They will conquer the rest.

NO! I say.

We must stop this bloody competition
We must ensure our species survives
And goes on to thrive and explore
And what’s more

We must say yes to our selves
To know what it really means to be alive
To explore all that we are
And help each other as we go so far

As to plant our seed through the heavens
Making the solar system, our galaxy
Known to who we are
Known to every star

There is no choice
But to stop the delusion
The delusion of death = release
There is no choice

But to embrace the pain and
the love
of being alive
as who we are.