we are the world, we are the muses…

you, we
live to create
live to discover
live to learn
live to connect
live to teach
live to love
live to live
a life
worth living
in a world
a neighborhood
a village
a city
a space
worth living in.
we haven’t
made it
in the old world
but we know it
well.
we’re on the
hustle.
often broke
because
our time
our incandescence
our blood
our sweat
our tears
goes to our
skunkworks
for the new dawn.
we work on
what we love
to do.
we’re curious
we like learning
we’re open circuits
we trust
that if we
do what we
love to do
and if we
are who we are
the rest will
take care of itself.
we dream of a
new world.
we are impatient
with the
old world
but we still
cherish its virtues.
its beauty.
we will use
the driftwood
of the old
to build
the spaceship
of the new.
we are muses.
sometime we muse
or are caught
musing.
we are lumen
light
we illuminate
together
our light
shines brighter
as one
as a collection
of many
diverse
lives worth living.
one’s light
does not
diminish
the others’
we are lumens
not luminaries.
definitely not.
we eschew
the architecture
of the old.
no leader
follower.
no indian
chief.
we love
having money
in our pocket.
but we
won’t sell
our soul
for it.
we know
if we do
what we love
if we become
what we are
the duckets
will follow.
$ is not
the organizing
thread
of our narrative
of our thinking
of our passion
of our life.
we realize
that we
live in a
rare moment
in time.
a time
unprecedented
in human history.
we don’t
need
vulture
capital
we don’t
need
head wrecking
patrons.
aristocrats.
angels
we don’t need
their money
their hangups
their desire
to make our lives
theirs.
we don’t need
financial capital
to create.
to discover.
to seed the new dawn.
to illuminate
the new rising sun.
to tell the new truth.
it’s a world
where human capital
not financial capital
rules
without ruling :)
what we know
what we’ve learned
our knowledge
our skills
our experience
who we know
and what they
think of us
our health
our energy
our passion
our disposition
our transparency
our authenticity
our honesty
our consideration
our conduct
as citizens
of ourselves
our households
our blocks
our neighborhoods
our village
our laboratories
our cities
our states
our nations
our universe.
we are
relentless
in pursuit
of our passion
our dream
our new world.
we don’t want
to change others’
world.
only if they choose
to enter ours.
elective affinities.
not affinities
of force
abuse
oppression
violence
skewed rules
of the game.
engineered
to perpetuate
the province
of the toll booth
takers.
the gatekeepers.
the headwreckers.
those that have
99 of the 100
marbles.
and they
won’t rest
till they get
the 100th.
goodbye
headwreckers.
u can have ur world.
go smart bomb
each other
and rip each other
off
and ponzi scheme
and defraud
each other
into oblivion.
stumble, diplodocus, stumble.
it stopped raining
10 years ago.
you have about 40
more
until you collapse
in a cloud of dust.
trouble takes care
of itself
i don’t need to
be judge
jury
executioner.
i can focus on building
the new dawn
as i see it.
a new spaceship.
and then invite
others on board.
if it’s a better
spaceship
it will fly.
if not, no one
will get on. np,
or back to the
drawing board.
we are bumblebees
we like flying into
different hives
checkin em
learning
eachin one,
teachin one.
loving.
we love flying
to different
meadows
getting a
beautiful
heterogeneity
of pollen
stuck to our legs.
sometimes
we need
shelter from the storm.
shelter
from the
heddwrekkers
the naysayers
the nattering
nabobs
of negativism
we gather together
to inspire
to be inspired
to collect dots
how they will
connect
we know
knot(s)
the universe
knows
we don’t
until
we
awake
one day
and see
a lilypad
on which
we’d
like to
stand
we reach
back
weave the dots
weave the pollen
weave the disparate
threads
in our basket
and step
onto our
magic carpet
our beautiful
new tapestry
our trussed
up bridge
to the new dawn
to the new rising sun
to the new truth.
:) <3