Universal Heartbeat

"Universal Heartbeat"

I am --
And like the thunder
It shook them all,
But only some were
Awake enough to notice

Within their steeled hearts
Their weary souls
Cower and respond: Ignorance (wrapped in wonder)
And then softly: status quo

Dreams have been
Left for
Such sleeping star children
It plays them each
A melody of hope
Pulsing galactic
In their veins

It beats
I am, I will
I am, I do
I am, I am

Waking star children
Let their eyes drop ice-sickles
Across keyboard handshakes
Of cold, blue screen-reflections
And meet brothers and sisters
On wires, in mega-computers

They're anchored tightly
Into a necessity
Food, air, shelter, water... love
They become the machine
And bound to its devices
Respond they: status quo
Noting nothing, no

Unshielded realizations
Inside them all
It beats
It beats the call
I am, I am
Forever have I been

But they have forgotten
To be, to say
What it is they have forgotten
But then, there is the breathing
And the beat
I am, I am
Sounding slightly louder
Neighbor to neighbor

And casting off the cold
It beats -- on
--Quit pretending
--Start believing
In the universe
I am,
A whisper

Ear to breast
Leaking messages of
Activist souls
Into the wave of all communication
In battlement with: status quo

Slow and steady
Slow and steady
They get ready
I am,
I am

It beats,
And star children wake
And secret wisdoms wake
It beats some
Til they break

I am,
I AM

Awake --

Neighbors sleeping near
Suckled on their: status quo
Ask the wrong questions
Follow all the same directions
While searching for meaning
In a chapter
That's long been closed