Change Many

Raised water tower structure in preparation for new foundation.

Lakeside Organic Farm, Watsonville, California.

Change Many

2/10/11

Habits can be hard to break

whether drink, drugs, tobacco, caffeine,

throw in sex and love as intoxicants,

then there's constant work for survival

unless you have lots of money

and even that brings patterned response

perhaps in needing more, as greed,

or worrying incessantly about losing it,

include our supposedly healthy routines

like this daily writing of mine,

for what, but to feel good, virtuous,

imagining I'm doing myself, others, service,

mothers, fathers take pride in consistency,

teach manners, etiquette, to fit society

which is full of norms and mores

on march toward progress in future,

all these dig deep grooves in us,

in brain's gray matter, through repetition,

and it's difficult escaping the matrix

created my emotional connection to life,

either from failings or successes,

the former, in relationship, often debilitating,

yet, I remember when quitting cigarettes,

where written in book that freed me

was wisdom, 'Pulling one item

from interdependent parts creates longing in rest.

Change many and your whole being finds transformation.