In secret, they shepherded legendary cultures forward
Coaxing unconscious epiphanies towards gradual zeitgeists
Till a threshold proportion of starving souls assented
Noble figures noted only for their prideless anonymity
Venerated in principle, their safety secured by benevolent ignorance
And a populace still haunted by a shadowy recall of Edens

Presently concealment needs more devious devices
For the goodness speaks openly but ears lack attention
Evil agents hold reins cloaked thin by crafted distractions
Humans now have the power to probe directly laid bare treasures
And also the cleverness to presume that nothing’s there
The abject silence of the heavens forms a screaming call to listen
But indifference closes the time-ripened portals
While money reigns and lust numbs and even artists glance askew

“Speak plainly!” — the generation’s mass outcry
Impatience and Laziness and Inattentiveness hold sway
The intelligentsia long for a reductive ethos in all things
But the Spirit is complex and your vanity can never simplify it
Your AI thought salad only paints a flimsy veneer across the void
Harken to this with urgency if you would penetrate to what is:
Only when you can grasp a single grass blade is a miracle
Only then do you have the possibility — the possibility, to begin.

_______RS

Image : An ancient monastery near the mountainous border wilds of Georgia and Russia. Photo-essay by Tiago and Fernanda link.

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