Love Poem: Ancient Exhaustion
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Written by: Gerald Dillenbeck

Ancient Exhaustion

Asking why our partisan democratic experiment
appears to be
failing feels like asking why our global climate
appears to be
failing feels like asking why old age
appears to be
a failing.

Political minds,
natural bodies,
spiritually cooperative individuals
reflecting upon lose/lose thought and felt
tragic and absurdly nihilistic outcomes
where we originally anticipated 
growing together toward win/win Paradise

Found in what is personal and political
and economic re-investment
in healthy 
and not pathology 
choices

Earth and Her extending families center
toward more health
to also win wealth of yin-flow
potentiating powers slowing down
to process Business As Usual Failure,

Winning capital-monopolized shadow-wealth
to win unhealth of evermore
isolating Yang-strength
to overpower
where matriarch/child love re-memories
could only empower with hugs
and songs
and re-creation stories

Asking
why our partisan democratic win/win experiment
in win/lose competitions
appears to be lose/lose trending

Failing feels like asking why our global climate
appears to be pathological
Failing feels like asking why
mythically pre-historic 
cooperatively owned communal-matriarchal ages
appear to be
a tribal failing.