who tells us who we are?

a larger whole?

we want a larger whole

within which we live

and which then helps us feel we belong,

God, as Creator, controller, who gives life value,

Gaia, Mother DNA, who binds eery piece of life into a whole,

Fox News, which tell us our feelings are right,

and the other is wrong,

we want to be part of a story

whose writer is in control,

whose might is for right,

who tells us we matter in the story,

that we can matter in the story,

how hard, and yet how necessary it is,

to realize that we matter

when we realize that it is the larger whole

who is the self we should indulge,

that our individual whims are lesser

and should not be made into commandments to follow,

but rather insidious whisperings 

from the darker places within.

by Henry H. Walker

November 29, ‘19