Natural Balance

"It's Human nature.."

Implies nature 

Is a collection

Of human attributes.

Rather than, 

To be 

Human. 

is 

To be

 Part of Nature.

How then 

To delve below 

The surface?

Of my 

Very humanity?

Why of course

By 

Going down 

The rabbit-hole!

Ironically 

That quest began

At a time 

I would have believed

To have

"Hit the bottom"

It was. 

A bottom.

Determined by me.

But it wasn't,

As low as, 

Could be gone.

Nor was it, 

The core of being. 

There are endless

Categories and classifications.

That are virtually, 

Useless, at defining 

The nature 

Of

The nature 

of 

Self

Different collectives.

Have very little 

Concern,

For how 

You might choose

To define yourself.

Theirs 

Is a design 

To co-opt 

Your energy

To the further 

Power and existence

Of the group entity 

In a widespread

Evolution of consciousness.

And to provide a correction, 

To the gross disparity, 

and

Widespread oppression. 

Of 

Women

A necessary

Swing of the pendulum

Such that women

Are able 

To more 

Readily define

Career path 

And 

Autonomy

A global 

Work in Progress

To be sure

But does it stop there?

No.

There are those, 

Whom would presume.

To not only, 

Chart their destiny, 

As women.

But 

Define 

What it is 

To be "a man."

For any group, 

Or individual,

To 

Push their agenda,

On another,

Group or individual.

Is a violation 

Of their soul.

Yes history 

Is replete with examples 

Of a table turned.

Still. 

It doesn't begin 

to  address

Cultural group mind,

Being forced on 

Other cultures

And these mores

Were upheld 

By both genders

It behooves each.

To determine

From their own core.

From their own, 

Heart and soul.

How they, 

Hold themselves 

In the world,

If it was wrong (which it was)

For men

To 

Be defining and limiting

The lives of women. 

It is no more 

Appropriate that men's 

Lives be determined 

By women.

There is a profound need

For a dropping 

Of widespread divineness. 

And a meteoric rise,

In empathy, compassion and understanding. 

A recognition that humanity 

Is "in this" 

Together.

The "global village",

And the "Human family",

Need to become, 

More than idealism,

Crushed beneath.

The boots 

Of dogmas

And a plethora

Of "ism's."

Growing in numbers.

Are those, 

That are throwing down,

The chains of their oppression..

Deep rigorously honest

Self-examination

Might well discover

One is, their own oppressor.

This can be seen constantly

In examples of 

Individuals that empower themselves

To rise beyond the status quo

Even where totalitarian regimes

Are in power

Soul-aligned self-determination.

Is behind thriving, 

For the individual,

Which would directly benefit,

Their community. 

The deeper one connects

The "themselves."

The deeper they realize, 

They are connected,

To everyone else,

And the planet we live on.

No one ought be left behind.

It is not "human nature,"

That threatens humanity. 

Nature sees to it 

That survival is 

Provided for.

It is greed and power-lust,

That see fit to seed,

The disparity in the world.

Humanity needs 

The collective power

Of all it's diversity

Focused on 

The good for all.

Continued division,

Will lead to, 

Humanities elimination.

Nature. 

Always seek to restore,

A balance.

If humanity, 

Refuses to align,

With Nature.

Nature will make, 

The necessary adjustment.

R. O'Neill (August 19, 2017)