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Flagging Down the Ongoing

I have made good this effort.
Getting good things done.
Climbing out of the past. Standing even up with the Oncoming
And it is not enough.

Still things lie untied.
There is much more to do to ready up for the Unexpected.
It is not safe in this deep well of good intentions,
when Change is everywhere.
The sky moving faster.
My focus is on the emerging behind the thick wall.
Behind the Illusion. Strength is needed.
The blending of possibilities.

I lay asleep dreaming.
And over and over I thought to do more in developing.
Developing a deep connection with the Inner Sea of Sharing.
Connecting with the Far Above where conflict does not exist.
Connecting with the Throne of Being seated deep, deep inside.
A Place of Great Wonder.

I took to the dream that it may live in my doing.
Getting things done.
I offered the Dream to others that we all may be builders of a Great Tomorrow
The pressure is on, the walls shored up to prevent cave-ins.
But why bother with the old, that which is leaving,
when all that will be left standing is our togetherness.

I climb out of the pit into Now.
I hope others will come as well.
And that there will be many building a Great Garden,
an Arc of Fertility, moving through the Ocean of Change.
The tall waters in a community of us.
Standing above it all.
Surfing the Storm as a Higher Mind.

Joe Nelson Icet
April 2003

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