Do I Really Know? {poetry}
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When I feel overwhelmed, distraught, hopeless about the events happening in our world, politically, environmentally, interpersonally, I turn towards curiosity instead of hiding, denying, or condemning.
I look to find my blind spots, things I haven’t considered. Looking for a way to understand the magnitude of that which I cannot control. I am doing my part step by step, question by question. There’s much work to be done to help our world, and it won’t be solved by thinking that projects blame or fear. It is through the heart the clearer direction lies. After all, do I really know the master plan?
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Do I really know what another feels?
Watching the forests burn
The animals perish
Many populations without water or food
My only perspective is my own capacity to assimilate what it might be like
But I don’t know
I haven’t been a mountain lion in this life
I’m not a tree
I assume there is suffering because I would be uncomfortable
And yet I trust that the Divine plan is
Just, loving, kind
That there are many realities, evolutions happening that I cannot yet conceive
As my consciousness grows
My trust evolves
I believe in mercy
I believe in divine intervention
I believe in a complex web of order
I believe everything is giving itself to the greater good
It may not look pretty
It may not seem just
It may look horrific
But do I, a singular human, truly know the whole story?
Is it possible that evolution is happening in the wake of destruction?
Is it possible that the sacrifices of many are for the species as a collective, not only humans?
Is it possible we are watching parts of our own systems crumble to give compost to new births?
What does it all mean?
Stay curious to the mystery
Some may argue we are facing the end
Some may say it was all our doing
Some may say there’s no hope
Others may add there is nothing to fear
We are near the end
And also the beginning
The beginning of being aware
The beginning of taking responsibility
The beginning of dying illusions
The beginning of building relationships with nature, one another, ourselves
The beginning of believing in oneness consciousness
The beginning of our evolution as conscious creators
Maybe we’ve done this before
Maybe we are an experiment
Maybe we learned something old, in a new way
Maybe what is falling away is the weight of shame, greed, separation
Maybe we are all walking the planet home
Home to a new beginning.
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As a Clarity Coach, Brigid Hopkins is devoted to helping people bring the clarity of the heart to the mind. With soulful awareness, Brigid guides clients to support their next phase of growth, drawing upon multiple healing modalities including Shamanic, Practical Reiki, Chakra Wisdom, guided meditations, crystal therapy and sound therapy. She connects to the community through writing and public service. Brigid serves on the Board of Lake Erie Institute, where she leads Moon ceremonies quarterly. Brigid’s personal writing culminated in a memoir, “Feathers of a Phoenix,” an exploration of her own journey to draw meaning from her experiences. You can find the book on Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.com. When not spending time with her husband and family, you can find Brigid penning away in a coffee shop, exploring the shore of Lake Erie, or taking contemplative photographs of Nature.
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