I Will Not Bow Down: global version

by Ron Whitehead


I will not bow down

I will not bow down
to your Government
 to your Religion

I Will Not Bow Down
 to your Materialism
 to your International Corporations
 to your Religious Shrines
  your Stock Markets
  your Shopping Malls

I Will Not Bow Down
 to your Coal Mines
 to your Oil Refineries
 to your Nuclear Plants

I Will Not go crawling down the deep shafts at midnight

I Will Not Bow Down
 to your invasion of privacy
 to your moral absolutes
  your religious political might

I Will Not Bow Down
 to your Assassins
  the International Corporate Police State
  the World Trade Organization
  your Killing Murdering Machines

I Will Not Bow Down
 to your Bureaucracies
 to your Schools
 to your attempt to make me the model citizen
  of your State of your Church


I Will Not Bow Down
 to your Fear-Based Hissstory
   of Lies
 to your Secrets
   in the Best Interest of
   to protect
   the People

  I Pledge Allegiance
   to those who were here before you
   to those who will be here after you are gone

  I Pledge Allegiance
   to the woman I love

  I Pledge Allegiance
   to my children to my grandchildren
    to all my children to come

  I Pledge Allegiance
    to my family friends and allies
   to my guides and angels
    seen and unseen

 I Pledge Allegiance
   to poetry to music to art
   to the global literary renaissance
   to the global arts community

  I Pledge Allegiance to the Beat to the Outsider

  I Pledge Allegiance to meditation to stillness
   to magic to beautiful mysticism to ecstasy
   to AH and AHA
   to the Big Bang Epiphany
   to altered states of consciousness

 I Pledge Allegiance
   to seeing
    into the occult the unknown
   to seeing
    into every day into the ordinary
     and being amazed

  I Pledge Allegiance to the Sacred and the Profane
   to gnostical turpitude

 I Pledge Allegiance to my physical body
   and to the knowledge that I am more than
    my physical body

  I Pledge Allegiance to seeing more than
   the physical world and to those
   of higher frequency vibration
    and consciousness

 I Pledge Allegiance to passing through
    the Sacred Fire
   to entering the upper chamber of the golden pyramid
   to levitating over the open sarcophagus
   to out of body experience

 I Pledge Allegiance to hard work

 I Pledge Allegiance to labor unions


 I Pledge Allegiance to honesty

  I Pledge Allegiance to red wine

 I Pledge Allegiance to the hottest sex
   and to gentle affection

 I Pledge Allegiance to fractal geometry
   the geometry of clouds and coastlines
  to 2x2 equalling 5

  I Pledge Allegiance to Failure
   to failing as no other dare fail

 I Pledge Allegiance to taking risks
   to holy daring
   to accepting responsibility for my own actions
   to helping my neighbors

  I Pledge Allegiance to not achieving
   the International Corporate Dream of Success

 I Pledge Allegiance to trees to green grass
   to brown earth to wildflowers of every color
   to wilderness to turquoise indigenous skies
    to native peoples everywhere
    to dolphins and whales
    to rivers lakes and seas
    to healing the earth

 I Pledge Allegiance to the Holy Spirit
   to the Word and to Silence

 I Pledge Allegiance to Dreams

 I Pledge Allegiance to Birth to the Journey and to Death

 I Pledge Allegiance to No Mas to I Am No More

 I Pledge Allegiance
   to Candor to Sincerity to Laughter to Irony

  I Pledge Allegiance to Passion to Compassion
   to Empathy and to Helping Those in Need

  I Pledge Allegiance to Resurrection of the Heart

 I Pledge Allegiance to GOing Beyond Beyond Beyond

NO
I Will Not Bow Down


Ron Whitehead

Copyright (c) Ron Whitehead 2005 & 2008