The Bubble
(An Ode to MLK)
Whilest I was sleeping last night
A gigantic bubble came and got me.
It was so large
it could barely fit in my room.
But it did
without squeezing
it did
and fit me in it.
It was like an airplane
with no motor
no noxious fumes
killing the air
it was just a bubble.
I wasn’t a lone in my bubble though
there were folks of every age
color
creed and stripe.
We didn’t know each other, per say
but we knew
instinctively
we were connected somehow
that our fates
divined a much bigger fate.
The bubble had no pilot
well, not one that we could see.
We took off from my room
and started traveling.
It was so cool to see out in the world from every angle
below
up high
around
we traveled
when we looked below
we saw now.
We saw all the ugly.
the hate
the greed
the weight of so many people’s anger
on the Earth as a whole
we saw the noxious fumes from the people
their vile energy
killing everything
sometimes slowly
sometimes
quickly
sometimes
the anger caused greater damage than any hurricane
and tsunami
and flood
or any Earthquake
combined.
The angry people feared the natural disasters
but couldn’t see
how they caused them
couldn’t see themselves as they are
they just couldn’t see
anything.
But we could see
miles high in our bubble
we could see it clear as day
how the food was killing them
how the people ate it cause it was there
and they ate, drank and slathered on the poisons
created by man
by corporate greed
by ugly people
who put profits before
the men and women who eat, drink and slather it.
WE saw it all.
from our bubble.
We saw the neighborhoods
where the anger was so bad
people died daily
over the silliest things.
We saw the preachers and leaders
robbing the poorest of the poor people
of their own thoughts
with their words and deeds
.
We saw people stealing from
family
friends
kin.
We saw all the drama and pain all these people lived in.
They did it to themselves
though
they couldn’t see it.
They felt themselves
weak
meeker
than the we.
Those of us in the bubble
they couldn’t see.
We saw it all
the dirtiest things
we saw it all
from our bubble.
As we flew more around the world
we saw AIDS as it spread through the ignorant
and vindictive
and how it started through the insolent
and contradicting
and how prophylactics
are useless on people
who don’t use them.
We saw it all
every complicated detail
up there in our bubble.
We saw the ravages of war.
How people were used as pawns
for corruption
and ego
misinformation
and greed
for the few people
who thirst for power
and who take it by any means.
The saddest thing we saw
was
how we treat and raise our kids.
How we see them as less than us
raise them not
like they’re destined to be the best of us
but more like
the perpetuation of
the worst of us.
Our ugliness
must be manifested through them
some say
out loud as they curse
their
own blood
their own babies.
As the burn them
abuse them
kill them
how they leave them
disrespect them
by disrespecting the mothers
they came in
These men
and women
who lost themselves
walking around the world
as a shell
no vision
no soul
just anger
ugly
and yes, greed.
We saw it all
up there in our bubble
we saw everything we needed to see…
Man against man
Woman against woman
Man against woman
Woman against man
Nation against nation
skin against skin
religion against religion
The Greed against them all.
Then we traveled past this world
through it
to a world within this one
an alternative universe
almost.
All the ugly
we had just seen
melted away
could not
would not
penetrate
permeate
where I was
where we
congregated
where we finally
found
home.
Our sanctuary
the place to heal old wounds
the place where love lives
lingers among souls
through us
a new way became
through us
manifested change
it was no door we walked through
we needed only to close our eyes to get to it
we needed only
to make space for it
make room in our lives
for our bubble to come
and through our collective efforts
it came and got us
and we took it here
to show us what’s possible
when we
let go of our fear.
We saw first hand
what joy looks like lingering in the sky
to be alive
and feel it
we saw it
and was led to it.
this place
knows no suffering
no pain
it knows no hate
no anger
no ignorance
Men and Women
know their truest nature
as equals
no ego
Families stay together here
there are no loveless marriages here
babies are conceived in love
and raised up awesome
in health, wealth and well being
to one day conceive, birth and raise
new generations of awesome people
to continue on the elevation
and evolution of
the human race.
There are no quarrels over color
race, creed or religion.
we live by and learn from the one true religion
the religion
of love.
We exist by the code of truth.
We don’t worship
we celebrate our highest selves
and the God that lives in each of us
through all of her creations.
As we floated above this gorgeous, healthy
disease free new land
in our bubble
seeing all its colors
we noticed
that all the greed from the other world
became finally
obsolete
in fact, there were no class systems
in the world I saw
everyone had plenty.
Fresh food,
clean water
nice clothes
nice homes
everyone made a living doing things they love
things that lit their fire
life for every single body
was about being happy, thriving
not scraping and surviving.
Life was about love.
giving it.
showing it.
talking about it
growing it
raising it
contemplating it
being it.
conceiving it.
It was all love.
When our eyes and minds were as full as
they could be
with the love we saw
and the possibilities
the bubble
lifted
and we traveled again.
it dropped each of us off
to our beds
as though we never left
back to this cold world
of disarray
to stay.
When I woke up the next day
today
I remembered everything
as though I was there
first hand
I recounted
every encounter.
the only thing I couldn’t place
were the other faces
in that bubble with me.
But
I remembered the freedom
I felt
and the love.
Even though
the bubble didn’t say a thing
I knew it’s message
to me
to us
was
more than just about possibility.
It was about clarity
and vision.
It’s hard to see the effects
and affects
of
the ugliness we live in
while we’re in it.
sometimes we have to float above it
to see what it looks like whole
as it ravages individuals collectively.
It’s all about perspective
gaining
the urgency
to
change it.
Whilest I was sleeping last night
A gigantic bubble came and got me.
It was so large
it could barely fit in my room.
But it did
without squeezing
it did
and fit me in it.
It was like an airplane
with no motor
no noxious fumes
killing the air
it was just a bubble.
I wasn’t a lone in my bubble though
there were folks of every age
color
creed and stripe.
We didn’t know each other, per say
but we knew
instictively
we were connected somehow
that our fates
divined a much bigger fate.
The bubble had no pilot
well, not one that we could see.
We took off from my room
and started traveling.
That was my dream.
in it’s entirety.
I didn’t have to die
to get where I went
last night
I simply had to close my eyes.
Then maybe,
wake up and
try.
I also realized
the reason why folk
like to pick at
and try to
“pop”
YOUR
BUBBLE
is because they don’t
know
they have one
of their
own.
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