What’s My Motivation?
Just in case there’s any doubt
I am not motivated by plaudits
Or any sovereign sense of my own superiority
.
On the contrary
My primary feeling
In the zero-point vacuum of my heart -
My innermost receptivity -
Is compassionate concern
For this human world
And its natural neighbourhood
Which inescapably includes me
In deep trouble
.
A trouble that I see being rooted
In a way of thinking
Passed down by Authority
For thousands of years,
Which, for no good reason at all
Either splits or merges
Solo figure
From or with
Birthing ground
Bringing conflict and suppression
To all life around
.
This makes me want
In whatever remains of my days
To do what I can
To help us out of this web
And to accompany others
From diverse horizons
Who see the same way clear
Through the dense entanglements
And disparate voices
Selling their wheres
And paying their dues
To what’s not good news
For our human kind
And this world about us
.
That’s my motivation
What’s yours?
.
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Addendum:- And here’s my demotivation:-
***You Are On Your Own***
I hear being said
By those walls of silence
As I struggle to raise my head
And get out of bed
To face another day
Trying to make my way
To make my contribution
To life’s continuance
Through festoons of dense entanglement
Embodied in idol thoughts
That separate who and what will be heard
And responded to
From who and what won’t
Regardless of what does or doesn’t make sense
.
In which case…
Why should I be bothered?
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