The Truth....

Things change
When we see ourselves
As Trustees and Stewards
Of all that we own as precious to ourselves…
Our savings, that stock, a home.

Status.

Even the washing machine.

 

The cognition

That we own nothing

Nothing

-          For that is the truth -

But hold in Trust all that we have

For the Earth.

A larger, deeper Purpose,

Much greater than we ever will be.

 

The realisation

That the stone left on the river bed

Is of far greater value

Than when part of a wall. 

For every wall – every single wall -

Divides a space

Somewhere

When what we need is to add.

 

The understanding

That all that we accumulate

Can be spent in our lives

Not to build an ode to hubris

Not to cocoon an heir

But

To get someone to spring back from perdition or despair

To elevate a state to happiness

To restore a patch of Earth for fungi and worms

To listen

Where there is nothing for us

But everything.

The knowledge

That what we do not buy

Defines us more

Than what we do.

 

Things change

When we believe

As Trustees and Stewards

That nothing matters more

Than the Planet

Than that elusive, shy smile of a child

Than hope revived

Than the generation, a hundred years hence,

that will judge us and say,

“You did the right thing.”

Brahmagiris

November 2023