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Extract:

If we weren’t unanimous
about keeping our lives so much in motion,

if we could do nothing for once,
perhaps a great silence would
interrupt this sadness,
this never understanding ourselves
and threatening ourselves with death,
perhaps the earth is teaching us
when everything seems to be dead
and then everything is alive.

Now I will count to twelve
and you keep quiet and I’ll go.

Pablo Neruda

What makes a single cell  defy its death?
One should die to make way for the new
Will it show  symbolically our  wrath?

Chance mutations ,errors   make a path
Like a man with  ringing axe might hew
What makes a single cell  deny its death?

Is the immune system prone to gaffes?
Needing not so many, just a few
Why show  symbolically our fear or wrath?

Noone  who gets cancer will then laugh
Our insides  turn around   till all’s a stew
What makes a single cell  defy then death?

O cruel sun that burned my skin no less
In a way unnoticed but to few
Why show  symbolically our fear or wrath?

Accept  emotions, do not self accuse
Accept the anger do not harm  arouse
What makes a single cell  defy its death?
Why  endanger self  with fear or wrath?

 

I cannot heal my wounds by power of will
Unconscious kind  intelligence is king
I can use my will power to sit still

While we meditate, our heart can fill
Till all the body cells together ring
I cannot heal your soul by power of will

When weary do not climb the desperate hill
Why risk the heart or shudder in trembling
We must use our will power to keep still

As the water force works   in the mill
So by harnessed nature we may bring
Healing to  the soul , absent our will

The other self in me  will quietly tell
What I need if I have trained hearing
I must use my will power to sit still

In the forest, make a broad clearing
Then the soul reveals herself to sing
I cannot heal a wound by power of will
All is given free if we sit still