Rainbow  light above my home in Soquel hills

New Season

3/20/09

On the edge of morning fog, Spring,

back in this home of many years,

the beauty of this land healing me,

I consider all that is shifting,

being birthed, subtly and not so,

in the world, nations, humans, myself,

and our great opportunity to create

that which we've only dared dream

for the perfection in timing is 'now',

there are no guarantees of success,

or security, or painless transition,

this life is a risk to 'simply live'

death awaits us with no exception

what we leave is the 'heart of our efforts'

witnessed in love manifested physically

felt emotionally within daily encounters

mystifying the brain to make sense of

as our spirits recognize it in each other

when free to choose without constraint,

or need, for protection from fear scenarios

born of our hideous shadowed history

thinking humanity's character is concrete,

deeply flawed, unshakably engrained,

but it's our light that is constant

and from the darkness we burst forth

to bring a new season of evolutionary change.