Daydreaming: Love, Relationship and Loosened Knots*

Daydream with me of a world

Where everyone can see

How connected we really are

Tiny diamonds on Indra's net

Perched each on our own little crosshairs

Shining with inner light and

Reflecting bursts of color from

All our twinkling neighbors

When I pluck a simple note of love

On the intricate web-woven harp

A golden reverberation travels to

Farthest Siberia, Tasmania, Nigeria

And someone in Istanbul strikes a

Harmonizing chord back to me in a

Crescendo that vibrates the cosmos

Daydream with me of a world in which

Wounds are tenderly cleaned and dressed

Pettiness is loved away and

Cruelty is abandoned as nonsensical

Which of course it is

Daydream with me of an earth

On which humans live humanely

Finding ways to take only what is needed

Of feeding many with less harm

To the Mother whose fertile womb

Hosts us and our hungry bellies

We have been trapped so long

In steadily constricting ropes with

Tangled knots of our own making

We can hardly move to draw a breath

Smothered by these old animosities

That defy resolution

Let us dream into being a new kind

Of ingenuity wed to compassion

That we may witness miracles

Of healing, refuge and kinship

Let us dream of a world in which

We all dance before the bronzing sun

And on into the night

Casting handfuls of diamonds

Up into the velvety sky

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* Inspired by John Roedel's poem, "Daydream with Me"