Gestalt

GESTALT

I find myself, on the brink of change

Facing an unknown, not quite in range

Feeling alone, but what is strange

Is that all around, others I find

who face change in kind

Friends and family are stepping out

Upon new paths all about

Each one facing change in a way

Letting go of fears, sending them away

Lands far and wide are facing tests

Full of troubles, and unrest

Status quo, that held its sway

No longer works, eroding away

This Earth of ours, once so large

Is showing its pain, by and large

We are testing it to great extent

With our excesses without relent

We are all on the cusp of changes so great

Enough that past and present, doth elate

We will overcome what we face

Of the past, we will leave no trace

We have been promised, a new day

Past dispensations have had their say

So when we think we are alone

A gestalt we are, our planet, our home

This present confusion we confront

Will give way to a common front

Comprised of one and all

As past separations doth fall

So hearken now, and heed the call

-Shiidon, August 2009

Gestalt, the sum of the whole being greater than the parts. This is how I see our dear world and all of us great parts that comprise it along with the animals, plants and minerals. I see change and uncertainty everywhere. It is in our day to day lives as well as the world surrounding us. The world of my childhood does not exist. The tests we face are not the same. The fact is that things went slowly back then. Now things happen to such a great degree that we are almost numb to them. To lose just under half a million people to a natural disaster in the Asian tsunami and almost have forgotten about it is surprising. We remember 9-11 and the twin towers falling but over a hundred fold lost their lives in that natural disaster. The suffering of our brothers and sisters in various contries around the world is so much that we are all but numb to it. No continent is spared. The disasters are natural as well as man made. It is almost foolish to not think that fundamental changes are needed in how we conduct ourselves in this small blue marble we call Earth. The suffering on another continent is the suffering of my brother or sister. The joy in accomplishing something major as the recent scientific discoveries regarding malaria etc. are our shared joys.

We are on the brink of something big and wonderful.