I urge you to be gently
and respectfully
dangerous
to the status quo
for they will benefit mightily
from being confronted
by the adventure
of your refusal to conform.
If you think average means safe,
you’re not paying very much attention.
I’ve found that I’m happiest
when I fit in with the weird ones.
Those different,
sweet and savage souls
who have chosen to be
unique notes in the song of life
who follow some
silent and invisible signal
known only to them
not the same constrained
monotony of
mangled chords
which the suppression of spirit
strangles out quietly
in a sea of manipulative
meetings and
loosened neckties
denoting faux freedom
these are costumes
meant to hold up customs
and
long dead antiquities
such as retirement
centralized control
and treating people
as fodder in the decaying
machine of manufactured needs;
customers consumed
in the dying gasps
of a crumbling patriarchy
Freedom isn’t free
but it is simple,
requiring only
the constant choice to move
against the enormous
social gravity of a society
filled with the buzzing
momentum of drones
and a few weakly held
positions that are soon to expire.
Follow the song of your soul,
that soundless hum that whispers
inside your heart and gut.
It knows your reason
for being here and it will
show you the way if you let it.
If I may humbly
make a suggestion…
Stop chasing,
for you ARE the prize.
Stop controlling,
for surrender contains
more freedom
than you can right now
imagine.
Start listening.
To yourself, and to others,
and to what this planet
can tell you.
Start moving,
for movement is life.
And be responsibly dangerous.
Because
In a world
of dulled conformity
it’s the only way
to advance.
