Powers Over Me
I once read,
If I am a parishioner,
(or a student
or a child
or some other non-elite ecofeminist identity)
Then someone has power over me.
It would have been more helpful
if this "someone"
had been named,
finger-pointed outed.
I am left wondering,
Who could this Someone be?
And, is this non-indigenous power
used to empower and disempower me?
And/Or, disempower and empower We?
And possibly some of both,
and all fractal four, above?
Or, with the And/Or above,
is this actually another variation
on a perfect octave circling power-string?
This "someone"
could not mean clergy,
usually civil,
civic-minded
more than uncivil;
Called to suffering of servant facilitators,
moderators,
mediators of democratically inclusive theological reflection
on real world experience,
the scripture of ecological dynasties,
Natural relationships
learned as also,
at our best and most resilient,
theologically resonant health
and safe-valued wealth
of co-passions,
positive
equivalent to double-negatives,
Stories
and histories
and herstories
of double-binding bilateral ZeroZone Souls.
Two intersectional stories
for all relationships,
secular Yang
with sacred non-elite bilateral yin-squared power
climates inside/outside,
Fractals of positive empowerment
and negative disempowerment
forMe/ofWe
Within ecosystems ego-sufficient
and concomitantly co-arising
ego/eco-empowerment;
co-incidental transubstantiation
When Ego equals LeftYang hemispheric framing lenses
and Eco equals RightYin political GreenCommons network
of interdependence,
intersectionality,
sufficient left/right co-affirmation
I am a Taoist parishioner
now wondering why Straight White Male Fragility
would have unmitigated retributive powers
over win/win restorative justice We
So, when reading,
If I am a parishioner,
(or a student
or a child
or some other ecofeminist identity)
Then someone
slightly less LeftBrain dominant
and more RightBrain affirming
empowers warmly accompanying me.
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