by John Seed
I pray To dissolve myself in the Earth To feel humanness dissolve back into the Earth Whence it came With each outbreath to ask the Earth To purify To mingle To dilute This over-concentrated humanness And with each inbreath To breathe in the ancient flow The unconditioned pure certainty that comes From 4000 million years of uninterrupted success And for this to dissolve the crystal Craggy structures within Of habituated poverty and fear Of this tiny identity turned inwards upon itself Breathing only its own emanations Dancing only to its own petty tune To gently waft through this poverty consciousness With playful, generous, exuberant abundance Exultance And with the outbreath To tease it out into the world (as much of it as will surrender) And out in the world To mingle, comingle, dance and disolve So that the next inbreath comes in Pure and uncompromising From the vast southern ocean breath From Antarctica, (remembering Gondwanaland When that land and this land were one And my DNA scurried out of the way Of dinosaurs) And once again dissolve The puny structures of the ego The wretched disconnected human song within So long deprived of connection With the great billion voices harmony Which alone can give it meaning and endurance And each time the inbreath Is like a sponge soaking up the bile The corpses full of fomaldehyde The foul rotting vapours For so long feeding on themselves Hidden from the sun Divorced from the exchange The interplay That alone can keep things fresh and alive And on each outbreath squeezing the sponge dry Allowing it to soak up Pure alive sparkling water Which pours cleansing, diluting, dissolving Thru ancient holding, ancient arrogance... And as the human falls back into the dance Back into harmony With the tune that created it I offer my eyes to the Earth So that it can have my perspective Offer all my senses So that all that I see from this place The Earth can see I quit refusing to be Her organs Quit holding back my perspective Quit blinding Her to what my eyes see coming down Become that part of Him That can see Warning Her Preparing Him Alerting, waking, and pleading for more More diversity please More eternity More time To dissolve impurity and be dissolved To be aligned again within the Earth To fall once more into ancient harmony