Last night, I was a mermaid...

I was a mermaid, beautiful turquoise tail...
swimming through the beams of light filtering through the water...
schools of dolphins and magical fish
playing in the columns of light streaming down
from the water's surface.
An intense and beautiful energy of love,
passion, delight streaming through my body...
grateful for my life.
I swam away to attend to some underwater business.
After a while I began to swam back to the area
where the light was streaming in and in the distance
I saw long, oily dark fingers reaching through the water,
wrapping around my friends, who were very confused.
As I swam further, I could see the fingers getting thicker,
turning into a large, thickly muscled arm and
then just a formless, endless watery, oily horizon.
Bodies of my playmates began to lose life-force,
and I realized I was being coated as well...
Wailing. Devastation.
Ear splitting cries of terror and devastation.
My heart breaks wide open.
Unable to be separate,
unable to even desire to be separate from my beautiful world.
Our mother is bleeding.
Our greed and never-enoughness has wounded her,
and the bleeding hasn't stopped.
Her blood is purifying our hearts...if we let it.
Go ahead, let this uncomfortable feeling settle in.
just take a moment, and let the tears come.
Allow yourself to wail, to weep and mourn for this Present Moment
in our Planet's story.
Let it tear you apart. So often we won't allow the tears, our heart shuts down,
afraid it will never open again.
This is a time to allow the flow of tears...
our own healing waters given freely to our oceans...
each tear drop a symbol of purification.
Call a friend, we don't have to weep alone.
Although that is healing, too.

What more will it take to bring us together, my sisters and my brothers?

A round planet has no sides.

Not in the workplace, not in the family,
not between self-imposed boundaries.
Separation is just an illusion.

We are all on this boat together.

I pray for all of our hearts to
awaken and bring us closer and closer...
allowing peace to enter this planet
in such a healing and powerful way:
for humanity,
for all the other beings that make up the majority of life on our planet.

For the plant-beings without the ego-sense that we have,
posessing the wisdom of being on this planet for ages before we arrived,
I am open and ready to receive the lessons you have to offer us.

Awakening the memory in our cells that water is the connection between
our very own bodies and every living being...
there is no separation...
we are water, surrounded by water in its gas form,
completely connected to the Gulf,
no matter where we are on this planet,
from the water that we are to the water-form that we breathe...
no separation.
All One!
With Love,
J