[CIMC-working] bad and good

[Doug Morris]

Hi again,

This has been an evolving poem...
that started about 1 am this morning...

It is a rewrite of something i posted over on the imc process list...
not quite on topic...
but topical for the current historical context perhaps...
and for that there is now so much more work to do...
for us all together in building and linking our social movements

thought I would share it here...

this is from a note to my friend june about the poem:

there is a place for righteous anger
that'll come again easily...
as much at block heads on the left as fascists

love and strength in community is what will transform this...
our strength is to nurture...

love, doug


bad and good

looks like the usa senate is going republican

this is very bad

this means war, lots more conservative judges, tax cuts for rich, social 
security privatized, medical aid cuts, more police surveillance, repression 
of dissent, and so on

what to do?

there is lots of work to do....

there is a need for diversity of strategies and tactics...

this is how i feel tonight...

in a still place...

i don't feel hate
i don't feel afraid

i feel calm
i feel sad

i don't feel anger

though anger will come again and again at injustice and willful blindness
as much for narrowness of vision on the left
as for the bad on the right

there is a moment of clarity here...

this is the end of something

for many suffering and for more of the privileged here, this is the end of 
a dream, the end of comfortable lives, the end of freedom, the beginning of 
the end of an empire perhaps

this may be a time of a continuing rise of fascism and the militarization 
of police and law enforcement

direct action will be smashed, is already lame here

the media will contract further around conservative agendas

there is a way eventually to end hate, contraction, blindness and the abuse 
of power

this is love, expansion, awakening, and the shared use of power

it's pretty simple

now is a time for love, awareness practice, critique, and grassroots 
community and networking

when things get too hard, we need to get soft a lot... and link up

we need to turn anger to our own rigidities between ourselves and inside 
our selves
as much as to finding the brilliance of power from below

we need to find love and community

if not, we will get lost in the darkness

it is a time for looking deep and long and waking up and being strong together

it is not a time for fear or hate

it is time for going into the enduring common good

gentle and profound strengths flow deeper than hardness

it is a time for saving the environment and building community and 
solidarity across communities and nations and making peace in small ways 
and in nonviolent ways and large ways together...

from this base we can gentle the hardness, the violence, the greed, and 
help more folks wake up

it is a time to move more in love and healing and community and shared 
strength and waking up