Sunday, August 22, 2010

"A Momentary Revolution"

Did You Know That Mama Shaq
Is A Remarkable Woman
Who Encourages Us All to Walk with Purpose?

Do You Realize You Have the Power to Renew Your Mind
And Can Tap Dance Your Way to Inner Freedom?

There is a Current in our Cultural Waters
A Movement that Yearns for a Life Beyond Material Gain
When a Six-Month Old Baby
Reaches for You with Wide Open Arms
And Strangers Can Smile at You on the Train

Did You Know that Musicians of Yesterday and Today
Could Feel this Too
And the Famous Tunes of U2 Had Biblical Roots
Where John Lennon Was Not The Only Dreamer
And Frank Sinatra Said We Could Live 'Our Way?'

Did You Know That Annie Really Meant It When She Said
'The Sun Will Come Up Tomorrow'
And That 'We Are The World' Was A Call
For Us To Awaken
And Be More Than We Thought We Could Be?

Did You Know That Professors of Psychology
Are Studying the Power of Presence
And Teenagers Learn Yoga in School
And That There is Real Value
In Just This Moment
Between Me and You?

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Lovely poem.Keep writing & smiling.

Love always.

Patnaiwi said...

What great lines! I loved the part about the six month baby with open arms.

I like your depiction diversity. Your reflctions are both sad and optimistic.You tell grim facts as well as the gusto and fun of life.

junkie said...

Very nice. Thoughtful and lotsa references