Love Poem: Doing the Math
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Written by: Gerald Dillenbeck

Doing the Math

When I was eight
I knew Paradise could not be merely secular humane
and yet be justly and omnipotently divine,
when a Great Horned Owl
breathed her last sacred breath toward me,
left alone
while she flew away
to where I would thinly follow
in my robust adult time.

It took me eight cycles of octave eight
to realize why
Paradise must include multiculturing nests for fowl
and ecopolitically cooperative seas for fish
and surf's bilateral co-gravity
eco-measuring timeless here and now eternity.

Because a monocultural Paradise
would be polypathically oxymoronic,
an economically and nutritionally ridiculous 
metaphysical paradigm,
not ecologically sustainable,
not even basic harmonic healthy balance
because not synergetically 
multiculturally
and polypathically 
or polyphonically healthy 
wealth intelligence
of regenerative/degenerative 
ecopolitical 
co-empathic/dyspeptic design.

Everybody knows that Heaven
begins and ends in an organically holistic Earth Garden,
with zero-balanced degenerative waste stream,
and nonzero-soul potential 
panentheistic integrity,
yes?

So how does denying our climate
and Earthscape wasting pathologies
help us become the ReForesting Paradise 
we might cooperatively become
through healing these dissonant
decaying apartheid anomalies
together?