Resolution OR Addressing Mind-Body-Spirit

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Here we go again in 2019. Some of us will have made New Year resolutions which most of us will either fail to keep or forget we made them anyway, which is why I never make any.

All of us, though, can and must do our bit to make the world a kinder, happier, more peaceful place, and it doesn’t require any New Year resolution because it comes naturally to us, and if it doesn’t, it damn well should. True, whatever one person says or does may not, in the grand scheme of things, make much difference, but like a stone thrown into a pond, it will make ripples, and as we watch those ripples spread let’s imagine thousands of pebbles thrown into thousands of ponds all over the world … for that’s where hope has a head start over despair. Nor does any religion have a monopoly on spirituality; the human spirit is bigger than that, accessible to anyone who seeks within themselves for the better side of human nature and is willing to play their part in whatever they may find there.

RESOLUTION or ADDRESSING MIND-BODY-SPIRIT

I can but do my best

in the worst of circumstances

created by a society

whose betters presume

to lead the way,

expecting the rest of us

to follow blindly, nettles

beyond grasp for a preoccupation

with straws

I struggle to do more

in the lesser of circumstances

created by a mindset

nurtured from first cradle

to final grave

by those ever anxious

to catch us out

with home truths incompatible

with their own

I will fight for you,

whenever, wherever circumstances,

threaten your space,

infiltrating mind-body-spirit

with a view

to exposing the flaws

in that sense of freedom

inexplicably giving us the edge

over closed minds

I am an affinity for humanity in you,

seasons of the heart running true

Copyright R N. Taber 2018