BUSY

The world is busy.
Busy creating & destroying
Busy helping & hindering
Busy at peace & war.
there is so much to do
In our lives these days
So little time to just be ourselves.
No time for friends
And not much time for family.
We have forgotten how to play
Our leisure is just crowd control
Our first priority
Is just to survive
In a world gone mad.

In this world, just to survive
We have to be beautiful
But beauty has lost out
To glitzy excess.
We have to be smart
But wisdom has lost out
To sly cleverness.
We have to be rich
But sufficiency has lost out
To glutinous greed,
Need has become lost in want,
And our excuse for not sharing & giving
Is 'not economically viable'.

I have been busy lately
Busy going somewhere
Busy doing something
Busy being places
I was lost in all the busyness
And couldn't see my world.
The world of my own thoughts
Is where i really live
My little world of dreams & Love
Of goodwill & peace.
This place within us all
Where 'we' are really "I"
Of which the world seems fearful.

Dawn McDonald
© February 2004

Midi: "I Get Around"
(Beach Boys)