Aftermath: Gridlock

Aftermath: Gridlock

Power has defeated Love.

The game is over.

Commonality has been buried by difference.

Connectedness shredded to separateness.

Peace unto you, John Donne,

but we arenow islands unto ourselves,

irremediably different,

antiseptically separate.

Power has defeated Love.

The game is over.

Power, once unleashed, begets power.

Separateness feeds difference

and difference legitimates separateness.

So round and round it goes,

Power growing

Love diminishing.

 

The war is over.

All sides have won,

all sides have lost.

A shattered world revealed,

Power without Love.

difference

without commonality,

separateness

without connectedness,

while everywhere righteousness and bitterness abound.

Amid the rubble,

there is a whisper from Love:

“As Power begets Power

so also does Love beget Love.”

Connectedness, once risked, reveals difference andcommonality

and commonality, once revealed, tears down barriers to connectedness.

Risks will be taken

and from this war’s rubble will emerge

a world of Power

and Love.

Is it true?

Oh yes, it is true.

But is it believable?

Aha, now that’s a deeper question.

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