“God grant me the serenity to
accept the things I cannot change”
I note, freed of that dark anxiety, the global mass
extinction our over-existence nurtures every day
Calmly I accept the reality of a hotter, drier, dustier and
dirtier world, where we all must live
No more do I trouble my mind over CO2 levels to which I must
contribute but cannot control
I pursue zenlike tranquility, emptying my mind by flipping
channels thru potentially anxious nights
Unregulated exotic chemicals in our drinking water can no
longer disturb my meditative state
I placidly accept the degradation, poisoning and erosion of
our precious soil by industrial agriculture
Loss of habitat does not threaten me, as I twitter safe and
warm here in my techno-burrow
I gaze into that hazy and starless urban night with what I
can construe to be a quiet satisfaction
There is a blind equanimity to be found in simply ignoring
the poverty and suffering of others
Deep media immersion smothers and deafens any anxiety which
might falsely overcome me
In a benignly-induced trance, I emptily partake of our
grisly and unsustainable food chain
Verily does my true spirit rise above the ever-knottier
cluster constituting our irreversible advance
God granted me the serenity to shut the hell up, bend over
and take all that which I cannot change
I sagely accept that selfish vanity, greed and insecurity
are key traits of modern day leaders
Endlessly repeating the simple mantra of You Cant Stop
Progress properly spins my spiritual journey
I quietly condone piling debt on their futures while we
waste the resources they need to pay them
I have learned that worry over our huge number of
self-inflicted crises is but a false shibboleth
I can rightly get on with the future and leave our guilty
past behind in a jumbled, half-forgotten blur
It is with a certain calm that I adapt the insensate gouging
of good croplands into cheap stripmalls
My health and happiness have been enhanced by letting go my
fuzzy and unrealistic youthful idealism
Trust in the wisdom of His inscrutable way has banished the
awful uncertainty which beset me
I am able to drive right on past our decaying infrastructure
without even a second thought
A vision of the seas as stripmined, unregulated dumps can no
longer perturb my cauterized emotions
No more must I futilely obsess over our sacred,
morbidly-bloated, utterly-wasteful military budget
I lost fear of bearing personal-responsibility for my own
uninsured health and scam-complex finances
I simply cast aside the burden of wasted anger over our
people’s ignorance, illiteracy and attitude
That I must work until at least 70 but will be laid off for
good at 50 no longer fills me with dread
With the sublime detachment granted me by my meds I
disassociate myself from humanity’s future
I have made a lasting peace with all the eternal, random,
angry and empty noise we produce
Internalizing the temporal nature of our vast wastefulness
allows me to see far without seeing it
Accepting our unique possession of eternal souls has revealed
the wisdom of our divine dominion
Now I can embrace my tenured dull manager who remains
willfully ignorant and bristles with venality
I can blandly cope with their artificially-induced stress
over arbitrary deadlines on useless projects
I have been imparted the ability to disagree with a silence
that they act upon as my tacit acceptance
It has come as a relief to see how easily I place ever more
on that big pile of things I cannot change
God has granted me the wisdom to overlook, ignore,
compartmentalize or be far too busy for
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