Love Poem: Mom's UnderGround PeaceTrain
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Written by: Gerald Dillenbeck

Mom's UnderGround PeaceTrain

A transitional skill
my Mom taught me,
good to use when I start to feel at-risk,
somehow 
anyhow,
whether in my relationship with her,
or with EarthDays more kosmic travels 
through naturally wild 
and domestic spirits.

Remember to ask permission 
before you are sure of how they will answer
especially when you may not yet fully know what 
or how 
or when 
you have sufficient rights to ask.

“May I ask you a question?”
can be felt as a stab in hearts
for lovers who thought you were their safe
always question-space,
their primal source of both mystery
and childlike endless curiosity
inviting multi-reiterated 
“Why and how did you arrive
at this active curiosity station”
soaking deeper into your most richly fertile 
non-judgment souls
and trauma-free
vulnerably transparent communion.

If, when you ask
about your right time
to express curiosity with your Mom,
Earth,
Lover,
Child,
Colleagues,
Political and Economic Leaders,
fellow pilgrims along our co-invested nurturing way,
if they seem to not respond at all,
your best translation of this silence might be
“Apparently not right now.
Please try again later.
I will probably be back campaigning
complaining
impatiently explaining 
your way again soon.”

If, when you ask
along your poli-economic peace train path,
you hear something like

“I’m sorry, what did you say, again?”
your warmest translation could be
“Please repeat.
I was not available for your question,
but now I might be.
However, beware,
my mind-train is in transition-mode right now,
and I might not fully engage
as compared to another
better appointed departure time."

Here it could be helpful
to memorize a script:
“May I share a few of your minutes later today?”
or variations on this quarter-turn 
of compassionate communication,
meeting each other halfway between

Your hope to gain my full attention 
at all your most convenient times
everywhere you turn for answers
and warmly safe and healthy relationships

And avoiding your negatively correlated parallel hope
to not receive EarthTribe’s traumatic dissociations
intending no forth-giving generous response

to whatever it is that you are passionately investing in
just before you asked for this transactional nutrition train
to become invested in your right of say

“Why can’t I have your attention
in this deep listening 
peace train way,
right now?”
kinda’ pushy, but maybe worth 
an actively curious 
win/win cry.

If, when you ask for emotive engagement,
"People get ready"
verbal performance,
peaceful intentions extending 
co-empathic win/win relationship,
such as “May I ask you 
an openly transparent
and curiously vulnerable
peace-trained question?”

If sacred EarthTribe responds with
“I have always hoped you are my most curious resource
for engaging life’s richest, 
deepest, 
most indigenously therapeutic
and appropriately intimate 
touching
feeling
wisdom-seeking questions.”

And then goes on and on resonantly, 
redundantly,
passionately,
pleasantly good humored

Especially about healthy relationship choices 
and love as life’s peace-train pilgrimage,
co-mentoring how to truly
trustingly 
and beautifully communicate
both within
and without
our network of neurosystemic brains
destined for mindful peace stations

Our most fierce "People Get Ready"
conductors for golden ticket rules
extending EarthTribe's warm conditioned peace-train 
compassionately pleasured landscapes

co-redeeming
Non(0) safe-zone peace
and passion
and pleasing verbal flow 
connecting EarthTribe's cooperatively curious
win/win circle charts

Rescheduling
natural rights to sequester 
Earth-embedded active hope
for WinWin inside/outside questers
despite LoseLose trauma histories
of despair 
death 
and decay

Invoking actively curious
peace train questions,
great and small transitional nation stations 
exploring EarthTribe rights
to peace-train climate trends

"Would you be surprised
if I believe
we already feel
resonance ready?"

If you hear anything along 
considerable peace-train lines
of compassionate curious questions

please don’t worry so much
about forgetting what your LeftTrain 
competing-for-attention 
closed off ego-mongering answer was,
or might become
without furthering MyBrain
constipated undevelopment.

Rather, refocus 
on why did you think you need to voice 
this relentless right to question 
your humane rights
to receive a free grace ticket
on EarthTribe's sacred peace-brain
here and now?

Why not just ask your originally intended 
win/win openly transparent question?

Is this your healthiest and best primal question 
restoring each peace justice response?

Wondering why we are healthiest 
engaging warmly curious 
peace-brain resourcing 
child-felt questions

People get ready
our train is coming,
warm healthy climates 
winning health rights
openly engaging
unconditional passions
leading to EarthBrain's
CuriousCity

May I ask you an open question?
“I most certainly hope you will.”

Namaste, for mutually-assured 
peace-train pilgrimage

Indigenously retraveling
re-ligioning MuseMystery

Curiously
courageously waiting
within each neurosystemic way-station 
to become more politically empowered
economically enlightened
peace-train networked 
cooperative re-connecting opportunities
to compassionately ask “Why not Win/Win?”

Receiving health and safety 
PeaceRights answers
to extend sacred EarthTribe 
democracy communions
intelligently co-designing
actively questioning
openly transparent
win/win empowering
loss of unenlightened
win/lose baggage

retraining faith
in peace-train tickets 
toward co-infested tranquility.

May we ask you a question
for a healthier train system now?

Why?

Because I do not know how to answer
for Earth's healing time now past
or ask in future communion stations
before this Why freedom to speak
wealthy win/win rights now.

Why not yet another
win/lose repulsive snow job?
degenerating unease
against all Othered.

People Get Ready
every health rights way 
igniting 
EarthMother's peace-train

You don't need a ticket
to speak on board.