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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