SamadhiMuse

Let me place the dream before you….

Imagine the world we might have
within a balance with the biosphere.

Governments elected by educated populations
to govern by the will of the people.

Wealth and the opportunities spread by intent
fairly across all people; each with enough.

Our deepest goal to maintain the biospheric balance;
and everything else naturally following.

Constraints on our growth and on our freedoms surely;
but only that we not breach the balance.

Progressing still, within the limits,
and developing an ever clearer intent.

An intent to live compatibly within the biosphere
and to slowly assimilate our possibilities there.

Nature all around us, still flourishing,
diversity unfolding; beneath our beneficent gaze.

Thousands of years passing and we deepening here;
amid deep abundance and missions to the stars.

There is nothing to prevent this future
but our own reluctance to transcend our biological imperatives.

gallagher
13Nov22
christchurch

A new emergent property
of matter manifested
when chance molecular
self-replication occurred.

And thereafter, complexity’s rise
was no longer prevented
by the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

And we are that consciousness
which has arisen within matter
grown ever more complex.

We are risen through
the inevitable and unconscious
processes of evolution.

All of this is written
in the very stones we trod on
if one but wields Occam’s Razor
and searches for the truth
thru the many illusions of
our still small minds.

Not all adaptions are successful
and this, our self-awareness,
is problematic.

Just newly risen, are we,
above the tooth and claw.
And this adaptation’s power
threatens to end us
even as we’ve just begun.

That which was conserved
to support our rise is that,
which if now unchecked,
foretells our fall.

gallagher
17Jan24
Christchurch