Choose your battles well, since battle on you must
There are battles built on strife and battles built on trust
Will you battle to conform to social expectations
To find significance in ideas and systems that promise
validation
To carefully behave in ways that you think will protect you
from
the wounds and judgments that remain buried in your
subconscious
Will you fight to conceal the parts of your humanity that
invite scorn and disapproval from yourself, if not others?
Will you struggle to be nice, offering your silent smile as
a poor excuse for compassion
Putting away truth and honesty as if they were sharp knives
too dangerous to be handled
Assuming we know what others can handle. Reinforcing the
paternalism around us keeping us bound and restrained like infants in a playpen
who need to be protected for our own sakes.
Is this, is this what you will fight for.
Or…
Will you battle to find your center, your true self
Will you courageously embrace your humanity and divinity
Will you cease stuffing and hiding, blame shifting and
escaping
Will you boldly go where no one has gone before into the
terrifying silence of your unprotected self
Will you be a player in someone else’s game or a co-creator
of a better reality in a real living, breathing universe
Will you defy empire and champion community, measuring
success by the least and the weakest
Will you battle from the ground up rather than the top down,
toes planted in moist rich earth, soiled hand joined to soiled hand, cheered
on, energized by all our relatives of creation seen and unseen
Choose your battles well, since battle on you must
There are battles built on strife and battles built on trust
