Love Poem: Buying the Farm
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Written by: Gerald Dillenbeck

Buying the Farm

Have you chosen what you will become,
my son,
or will you become something yet unchosen?

Become?

How will you keep yourself gainfully occupied,
dare I speak of vocation?

Oh yes,
I will be absent.

Absent from…?

From you.
Absent from you.

My wisest son,
thank you for your perfect gift of omission,
and yet your future commissions
provoke my valiant interest now.

You are more curious
than absence would allow.

And you less curious
than vocations would avow.

Not true.
You rush to judge rashly
evidence only future time could carry.
I would become absent from inside voices,
those demanding I use mine,
closing minds to outside voices
ignoring body needs for outdoor vocal crimes
of raucous laughter,
shouting at echoing self-greetings
to outside experts too busy writing their competitions
to read my mutually polypathic cooperations.

Would it kill you,
wisest son,
instead of flaunting absence from inside voices
to market sacred presence speaking outside voices?

It might,
yet here lies opportunity
for graceful great transitions.

Ah yes,
transitions toward whom doing what
and why,
these are my tired questions.
So what are these golden opportunities
with minimal risk of becoming fleeced,
naked with loss,
intimately vulnerable to cold dark death?

I could not know of transition without risk of loss
yet comprehend this time
discerning how to find our co-opportunities
as EarthTribe MultiCulture Revolutionaries
(0)-Interest Bodhisattva Economic PlaceHolders
Beloved Community Occupiers
Earth CoOperative ReGenerators.

Each new morning brings great transition opportunity,
alternatively and coincidentally firing fueled anger and fear
or floating love and contentment,
but usual busyness a hybrid of
Yang+ and dualdark yinyin’s transparentcy
wu wei
interior mindbody Right Elder integrity-elational
nondual co-arising dipolar LeftRight correlational
AnthroCentric CoPresent Holonic Empathy—
DNA/RNA root  fractal-familiar ecosystemic,
seasonal issues and regenerative tissues.

Where is your risk of loss
within this nondual bicameral landscape?

Loss comes through my over-active AnthroEgo,
dominating elitism of LeftBrain addictions
to commodification without concomitant nutrient value,
to deduction without bilateral inductive trusting balance,
averse to reducing competitive edge
without cooperative expansion of collateral health,
hypnotized by policies and procedures devoid of nutritious v. toxic beliefs,
severing the value of mindful communication from healthy v. pathological
political and economic experience 
of relationship investments within RealTime.

Your healthy future is your daily great transitional choice,
your Ego AND EarthTribe optimizing healthy future
emerges a more cooperative plan,
like uracil with cytosine.

What if I choose to play games for a few decades?

Commit to cooperative team building games
and play with resource ownership variables
as influenced by poli-ecological WinWin Gaming assumptions.
Find ways to heal air and water and soil.
Explore ways to rehydrate Earth
and slow down our AnthroLeft dominant acceleration.
Invest in healthy slow dense polycultural growth
for stronger therapeutic polypathic outcomes.

Sounds more like your organic farm-therapy community dream.
I suppose that could be one way to play WinWin.
But, not mine.