World Without End

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Climate change, coronavirus, these threaten an already much-divided world all but destroying the very foundations of a common humanity;

Racism, sexism, undermining any individuals human right to their own points of view without resorting to violence or - at the very least – bad feeling. As I have asked before on the blogs, whatever happened to agreeing to differ?

Sadly, human nature is unlikely to change even if needs must we evacuate to another planet in some distant future. On the plus side, though, there will always be those whose sense of humanitarianism transcends being pressurised by any socio-cultural- religious mind-set to which they may well have been introduced during formative years but have resisted taking for gospel, keeping an open mind-body-spirit where it counts, open to friendly persuasion and always up for debate, but a closed door to any devils-in-the detail.

The world as we know it may well come to an end someday, but humanity will always find a way to give its free spirits and positive thinkers have a voice; a voice as universal as the universe itself, the voice of love.

It may sound corny and trite, but it is on the power of love that the better, kinder, stronger side of nature and human nature turns, guaranteeing us a world without end who consent to playa part on it, however big or small, wherever and whoever we are.

WORLD WITHOUT END

Pitting itself against the human race

like a marathon runner bent on making history,

challenging time and personal space,

conceding neither grace nor favour, no matter

for leaving mind-body-spirit drained,

but up to its finer life forces to go the last mile

or go down fighting, to whatever end

in store around the next bend, homing in on a blur

of some spurious course

No vaccine to give humanity any space

to tackle some win-or-lose agenda defying culture

and religion to come into play,

fulfil any promises made by dogma or whatever,

bent on refuting any sweet mystery

of life that might see mind-body-spirt take heart,

regenerate, prove itself a force worthy

of Earth Mother’s mentoring in readiness for staying

this or that spurious course

Humanity, fighting back the only way

it knows how, mind-body-sprit drawing regeneration

from a well of hope and determination,

drinking in waters of an earth whose natural quality

lifts endurance and perseverance

 of such magnificence as redefining humanity

for centuries, making and reworking

its history, something of an apology for past mistakes

for this or that spurious course

Covid-19 will take its toll, toll, leaving

its mark forever, but the pulse of human life beats on,

driven by a capacity for hope and love

capable of defeating even the worst circumstances

nature and human nature have delivered

since the beginning of time, history a learning curve

for better, for worse, guiding us

away from any spurious course, enabling all humanity

to listen and learn, to look and see

Such is life, its ethics undermined (if well-meaningly)

by divisive socio-cultural-political expediency

Copyright R. N Taber 2020