Ownership

Ownership is a ritual

of false expectations.

We invented ownership

as a behavioral ritual

probably based

on a myopic sense of fear

with limited input perspectives

and now here we are

lost in the domino effect

of generation upon generation

all in the advance of ownership

but losing the planet

in that process.

It is presumptuous

of humans upon humans

and humans upon the earth.

It is a superficiality

of greed amongst humans.

It is applied erroneously

as it assumes a control

in an obsolete non-integrative way.

It only has responsibility

primarily towards self-interests.

It is a method of objectification

with an enslavement result.

It produces a world occupancy

of side effects and negative outcomes.

What is claimed as eventually native

is not environmentally natural.

It leads to a prominence of remakes

by humans

with planetary consequences.

It is human intent

without

adequate human comprehension.

It is a management style

by narrowed self serving attention

and a force of dominate actions

thus nature presumably exists

as affect

and this earth is functional

as consequence.

A lot

of human manipulated material usage

remains ongoing as litter.

Its symbolic eventfulness

was significant

to humans but has come and gone.

Human attention has moved on

While the denial is ongoing.

It is as if the earth itself

is a display room

from messy children’s listlessness.

Where did that mind style

go so horribly wrong?

What was our assertion

that did not include

the planet itself in partnership?

At what point did we become

so ‘immediate’ smart and controlling

that we also became

so ‘distant’ dumb

and planet destroying?

What is ownership

if it is not the seat

of response ability?

What is ownership

if it is not seeking

right enlightened responses?

What is ownership

without the grand receptivity

towards human and planet

living integration?

Ownership is not a collusion

towards a patchwork

of small dominions.

Ownership is the weight of the world

as it passes through you

moment by moment.

You are that reverence

as you are that response.

We are the living reflection

in relationship to the earth.

What we really see

is who we really are

for what we’ve done,

we’ve done to ourselves also.

For we also are

embodied as planetary

and ownership does not divine us

but limits our eventual participation.