OntheWilderSide

I Will Not Bow Down: global version

by Ron Whitehead

I will not bow down

I will not bow down    

to your Government

    to your Religion

 

I Will Not Bow Down

    to your Materialism

    to your International Corporations

    to your Religious Shrines

        your Stock Markets

        your Shopping Malls

 

I Will Not Bow Down

    to your Coal Mines

    to your Oil Refineries

    to your Nuclear Plants

 

I Will Not go crawling down the deep shafts at midnight

 

I Will Not Bow Down

    to your invasion of privacy

    to your moral absolutes

        your religious political might

 

I Will Not Bow Down

    to your Assassins

        the International Corporate Police State

        the World Trade Organization

        your Killing Murdering Machines

 

I Will Not Bow Down

    to your Bureaucracies

    to your Schools

    to your attempt to make me the model citizen

        of your State of your Church

 

I Will Not Bow Down

    to your Fear-Based Hissstory

        of Lies

    to your Secrets

        in the Best Interest of

            to protect

            the People

 

    I Pledge Allegiance

        to those who were here before you

        to those who will be here after you are gone

 

 

    I Pledge Allegiance

        to the woman I love

 

    I Pledge Allegiance

        to my children to my grandchildren

                                to all my children to come

 

    I Pledge Allegiance

        to my family friends and allies

        to my guides and angels

            seen and unseen

 

    I Pledge Allegiance

        to poetry to music to art

        to the global literary renaissance

        to the global arts community

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to the Beat to the Outsider

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to meditation to stillness

        to magic to beautiful mysticism to ecstasy

        to AH and AHA

        to the Big Bang Epiphany

        to altered states of consciousness

 

    I Pledge Allegiance

        to seeing

            into the occult the unknown

        to seeing

            into every day into the ordinary

                and being amazed

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to the Sacred and the Profane

        to gnostical turpitude

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to my physical body

        and to the knowledge that I am more than

            my physical body

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to seeing more than

        the physical world and to those

        of higher frequency vibration

            and consciousness

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to passing through

                the Sacred Fire

        to entering the upper chamber of the golden pyramid

        to levitating over the open sarcophagus

        to out of body experience

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to hard work

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to honesty

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to red wine

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to the hottest sex

        and to gentle affection

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to fractal geometry

            the geometry of clouds and coastlines

        to 2×2 equalling 5

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to Failure

        to failing as no other dare fail

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to taking risks

        to holy daring

        to accepting responsibility for my own actions

        to helping my neighbors

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to not achieving

        the International Corporate Dream of Success

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to trees to green grass

        to brown earth to wildflowers of every color

        to wilderness to turquoise indigenous skies

            to native peoples everywhere

            to dolphins and whales

            to rivers lakes and seas

            to healing the earth

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to the Holy Spirit

        to the Word and to Silence

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to Dreams

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to Birth to the Journey and to Death

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to No Mas to I Am No More

 

    I Pledge Allegiance

        to Candor to Sincerity to Laughter to Irony

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to Passion to Compassion

        to Empathy and to Helping Those in Need

 

    I Pledge Allegiance to Resurrection of the Heart

    I Pledge Allegiance to GOing Beyond Beyond Beyond

 

NO

I Will Not Bow Down

 

Copyright (c) Ron Whitehead 2005 & 2006

 

Ron Whitehead

ron@tappingmyownphone.com

www.tappingmyownphone.com

Filed under: international politics, Long Island Politics, Recommended Poetry