Dear Apocalypse,
Of the people I ask - are you yet satisfied? Have you indulged your luxury enough so that your appetite is satiated of the frivolous contributions to the cup of anxiety held in the precious hands of mankind? It's running over now, are you watching with the rest of us?
Our hubris has left us at the mercy of biological, meteorological, political, sociological and completely avoidable judgments.
It didn't have to be this way.
You have looked on while the seasons have shifted more than a lunar cycle forward over the last 20 years.
Global warming? You cry - 'Conspiracy!', while only in the most hushed whispers you ponder the hardest evidence which we all bare witness to - the climb of excruciatingly hot temperatures, the stirring and rhythmic dissimulation of oceanic wind currents - the raging fires, the massive tsunamis.
You have allowed your government's globally to play in the sandbox and incentivise your allegiance of political designation with promises of financial gains.
Now as they act with the authority of our best interest - you are showing yourself to be more greed-filled than those who taught you these ways.
As your governments urge you to take extreme measures for the preservation of as much life as possible and set your money games aside - you are showing what you value by sitting back and placing the threat of financial destitution on the backs of those who built your empires and kingdoms.
You have turned your backs on your neighbors, thought only of yourself and your personal satisfactions.
You have discounted and discredited the value of life, love, peace, fulfillment and the brotherhood of mankind - until you were able to determine a way to brand it and turn it into profits for your pockets. You've slapped happiness on a meal replacement shake, fulfillment into tutorials, kindness into a way to achieve personal gratification - and only then were you ready to start talking about the utter importance of these things.
How I wish that statement spanned only the timeline from the birth of our current pandemic-crisis. The sad truth is it has gone on so long that your for-profit attempts at rediscovering the value in the core fibers of human purpose were brought to the table too little, and with the great misfortune of being possibly - too late.
You have hushed us, stomped over us, ignored us, forgotten us and left us behind. Us, who have struggled to maintain human purpose, maintain the focuses of energy, spirituality, karma, vibes, ethics - whatever you call upon. The mask may be different but underneath it's still the same humanity
It isn't too late to join us - to put forth first the utmost importance of preservation of life, of our earth and ultimately our humanity. I implore you to set aside your cash books, from the top to the bottom.
Of the people I ask - if we must face any Armageddon and risk any single life - can we not set aside our systems and man-made infrastructures of society long enough to remember who we once were?
Who we were when we still loved plants and trees dearly?
When we gave animals the same respect we gave our brothers and ourselves? Whether sustenance or companion we recognized the preciousness and revered the fragility of all life.
When we asked artist to create beauty and musicians to give a language to things that can not be said? When the poet shared truths and the writer gave permanence to things we should have never forgotten - things we intended never to forget.
When we looked after our tribes, and our tribes all looked after one another?
Before the first diversionary systems of religion stole our spirituality, before our first monarchy and dictatorship systems set out to steal the freedoms and liberties afforded to us by the gift of life itself?
Before we divided ourselves with the many separations of man-made constructs.
Dear Apocalypse -
We haven’t exactly met yet but, when we do - I hope that we will have remembered who we were. I hope we all allowed our selves to open up and really connect with each other, love each other, respect and invest fierce effort seamlessly across the face of civilization to protect, preserve and ultimately enrich human life. I hope before we are swallowed in the embers of your scorn and punishment, we can say we made our last days count. I hope that we can recall our nature as humans and not pieces of machine in time to distance ourselves from your impending arrival.
I hope we all remember soon, so that we can cherish for as long as we can all that we were given to care for and look after - all of each other. At least, then when you take us - we will have been together as we were always intended to be.
(written March 21st 2020)