A Vision for the Future
By: Sylvia Clare Msc. Psychol
Tags: Nature, Prose Poetry, Prompt, Sky Collection, Love

The plague swept through, reminiscence of older stories of plague, where superstitions routinely destroyed as many lives as the sickness did.

And now we have that again, the rule of misinformation sweeping across the conspiracy theorists’ mental terrains. Shall we sink into that slough once more with conspiracies and mistrust against vested interests and commandments to hold blind obedience to authority; who can tell?

This is a time when trust is essential. But who knows the truth, What is truth but a relative thing to so many nowadays and the deeper truths are ignored. No one has any trust where superstitions dominate the realm usually reserved for reason, where rational thought is lost in the debris of non-sense.

I want the world to change. I want to grow and change with it and I understand change only happens through suffering, through pain and forced reflections by those who do not embrace this approach to life. We are being globally challenged to look at how we live, all of us, to consider the harm that our apparently simple actions create. The commonplace is now too dangerous, too injurious to the future for us all.

I want fear to end and compassionate loving choices to take their place. I want to feel free to be open to everyone instead of closing myself down against those who would invade others because they are so empty inside themselves. I want people to be whole once more, to be at one with themselves and nature. To feel the gentle pulse of the planet through their own veins and to flow with the seasons. To know heat and cold and embrace them both with resilience. I want the smaller creatures to live without fear of humankind, to know they are loved and respected as equals on our shared homestead called planet earth.

I want an end to cruelty and judgement, to selfish needs against the greater good, for mental illness caused by trauma to be a thing of the past and for total equality to be the only thing that makes sense.

I feel the stirrings of these changes in my blood. I recognise the stripping away of artifice that comes before a collapse of the old and an awakening to the new. It is a pattern I have lived through in my own life and can now recognise happening in this bigger story. We must change everything. There is no normal to go back to. We can only go forwards ever.

If we do not change willingly, it comes anyway, sweeping us away with its tides and currents. Change will come, however we resist it. How often do our leaders talk about getting back to normal but they lack the wisdom or insight to recognise that this is far greater, far more powerful than anything they can control. It is their blindness that has led us thus far.

The prejudices and biases of ideologies will be swept away once we reclaim our true nature, that of co-operation amongst all peoples, all species, all living creatures and all forms of consciousness. When we make brothers and sisters of the mountains, the waters of all lakes and oceans, of trees and forests, the plains and estuaries, we make friends with ourselves. We make family of all creatures and end our divisive perceptions.

I sense the changes coming. They will bring sorrow when we are blinded to their purpose and do not bend willingly with their directions of flow. We cannot stand against the mighty tornado and we cannot thwart the power of nature, no matter how hard we try to pretend our technologies and inventions can master it all.

We need to strip ourselves back to our natural state, to rid ourselves of artifice and surface dressings, to see the raw beauty in all human kind, in all things. Painted beauty on our bodies should be a bonding ritual not a divisive selection process. Beauty is in the soul not the skin.

Do not tell me ‘back to normal’ is what we want when normal has been so inherently misguided. Do not tell me how you miss your old life when that was a way of life which slowly destroyed the planet and the future for our grandchildren. Say instead you will join hands and walk together into this brave new healing world.