"Travel Safely My Love"
A Poem About the End of the World
We are at a point in history that is impossible to explain.
What I mean is…
How could I possibly say...
Humanity is reaching a great convergence…
of corner, key, and column-stones.
Foundations of her existence…
What I mean to say is…
Humanity is reaching a convergence
of all culture,
society,
politics,
lies,
technology,
destroys,
through,
pathetically meaningless wars,
religion,
lies,
science,
lies,
media
lies,
economy,
steals,
physics,
extends
metaphysics,
pretends
What I mean to say is…
We’re living in a matrix,
What the fuck are we doing here?
What is reality anyway?
Are we literally time?
and does any of this fucking matter…
What I mean to say is…
Humanity is reaching a convergence, more like a vicious explosion of everything.
Something akin to a thousand 8-lane highways all meeting in the middle of civilization for The Billion-Car-Pile-Up-Death-Royale!
(In your dramatic announcer voice):
“VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER!
NO SPEED LIMIT!
8 BILLION PEOPLE!
BABIES DRIVE FOR FREE!
AUTOPILOT IS FOR PUSSIES!!!!!!
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
NONE OF THIS IS REAL!
FATHER, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?!?!?!?!?!?!?!”
I mean,
A convergence that will tear a hole through everything
inside of us
and around us
like 10,000 years of human history lighting the atmosphere and the human soul,
on fire.
An unquenchable fire.
Total obliteration.
Too many of us will simply stare at those barreling automobiles and fiery skies in a stupor of helplessness,
playing the role of the Lord’s hapless sheep, perfectly.
But if you are one of the lucky ones; the insane ones, who enjoy being mentally, spiritually, emotionally and (“Coming Soon!”) physically crucified…
Then you rank among the rogue and unbridled flailers, screamers and nonsense speakers
of tongues and babel.
Maybe because
You hoped you might accidentally blurt out the magic words.
You know…
That spell…
That perfect sentence that would change everything. That calms the enraged, comforts the broken, heals the sick, and transforms the wicked.
The “Voice” of the Bene Gesserit, the Word made flesh, the Holy Grail, The Philosopher’s Stone, The Elder Wand, The Jesus Christ himself, returned.
Jesus-Christ-Superstar-False-Messiahs rise up everywhere with all the best intentions, trying to clean out the cobwebs of civilization and,
surf the wave of transcendental objects
and concepts
at the end of time.
The last big kahuna. The Zeitgeist tsunami.
Trying to thread the holy needle through the infinity keyhole in an attempt to make a place for humanity in an absolutely, uncertain future.
And yet they fall
because they fail
to understand
the great I AM.
“I am going to my Father’s house to prepare a place for you.” Christ said
“But what the fuck is he saying?” replied basically everyone else.
“…I know what the fuck he’s saying…” said the few who knew.
The Lord’s wee baby sheep will not understand.
They are just along for the ride with you and I.
Just try to keep them away from the slaughterhouse. Moloch is hungry like he hasn’t eaten in 2000 years,
and you are their only hope, Shepard.
They will ridicule you
and spit on you for
your noble arrogance,
your audacious acts of truth to power,
claiming your birthright of Christ,
your inherent divinity.
And yet you will endure,
with the hope that you might create the medicine of the ages, even if you damn yourself to hell in the process.
All the fear, all the hatred, all the confusion brought forth by impossible problems and improbable lies,
will descend upon you like Babylon herself.
That’s of course, when they aren’t descending upon every aspect of humanities relationships with each other. Splitting people apart, by race, religion, gender, sexuality, politics, ANY. FUCKING. POSSIBLE. WAY. TO. DISCONNECT. US.
Prepare to bear all the pain of destruction of the absolute severing of one from another
over petty things like propaganda fueled belief system incongruities and elaborate pieces of worthless paper painted with funny colors and adorned with the faces of men who opposed such evil things.
But oh,
when you shine a light on the whole thing, especially if you do it well, especially if you are convincing…
Oh the fire of a thousand suns will incinerate you.
The dropping of a thousand guillotines will eviscerate you.
And the unwashed masses will devour the messiah like communion…
Unless he does a magic trick!
Jesus: “The problem is we do not love with all our being. The wickedness, first and foremost, lies in all hearts who choose evil over good.”
The mob: “...Kill ‘em!!!”
Jesus: “Wait! Wait! Wait!”
(Jesus flutters his fingers and pulls something out of his robe)
Jesus: “You guys want to see what I can do to this glass of water?”
(The mob, intrigued, begins to calm down)
The mob: “...go on.”
And there’s just as many false antichrist stirring a wicked brew of arrogance and hatred. Trying to dim the fucking sun, trying to public health, trying to tyranny, trying to mix iron and clay, trying to UN-human the world, trying to force phallic-metallic objects through any orifice they can, trying to force the flesh and bone of living breathing humans into fiber optic network cords and stack them into black-cube-server-modem-router-matrix-Hell.
Is.
Real.
And.
It’s.
Coming.
For.
You.
Turn.
Off.
Every.
Fucking.
Screen.
If.
You.
Want.
To.
Live.
Fear
Bitterness
Heartache
It can make you do terrible things. Unforgivable things.
Arrogance
Self righteous,
zealousness.
It can justify any means to (UN)holy ends.
Assemble the phalanx!
The four horsemen of the apocalypse have stopped up their ears and blindfolded themselves to charge at full speed uninhibited. The AI False Prophet guides them now like existential GPS.
Ephesians 6
Ephesians 6
Ephesians 6
What are we to make of our power?
What are we to make of our God in Heaven?
What would we do if they became
One and the same?
Faith
Love
Righteousness
These are the only things that can remain after everything has been stripped and stolen from you. After your life has been ripped to shreds, and there is absolutely nothing about you that remains.
Not because they exist underneath all the chaos and order. But because they must exist, in order for us to survive this chaos in store.
The Christ story may be important because absolute suffering creates absolute character…
when it doesn’t drive the persecuted insane.
The Christ story may be important because Jesus was a quality control test for God to prove the human being was a perfect build so he didn’t have to destroy the new and improved batch.
The Christ story may be important because after everything that was done to He Who Is, after everything Yoshuah did for the people, with spears in his side and thorns in his head, and nails in his bones, with ridicule and spit laid at the foot of the beam on which he hung, by those he healed and cleansed and fed and ultimately came to save and die for.
As those same people
Cheered for his death,
he still chose to love them,
have faith,
and remain righteous to the very end.
The limit case for everything good.
The perfect human being.
Imagine if there were just ten people,
with half that resolve,
in the world right now…
So Get Beaten
Get Bloody
Taste Death
and Breath,
New,
Life.
I have no idea where any of this is going, what God’s real name is or if anyone is rooting for good in the cosmic drama.
I just know, there are things that work for human beings. And there are things that don’t.
So let’s head back to Eden. Because God and Humanity have been separated for too long.
Because…
I have faith
that there is a keyhole
that we can fit through
to make it to the other side
and build a better world.
I’ll see you there
or maybe I won’t
but I hope that I do,
in the blink of an eye
or a thousand years from now.
Somewhere that will surely be named,
“Heaven”
Travel Safely my LOVE.
I pray hard that God will provide us the strength we need to fight by His side to the bitter end. Carry the banner and don't let go my good man.
Wow, this is really deep and heartfelt. Thanks for sharing it. So much division going on and people don't even realize we need to come together to survive. Love, both for self and others coupled with the togetherness of community will see us into the next act, whatever that may be. My background is evangelical Christianity, which I could never truly agree with. I feel both frustration and compassion for them. They don't see how un-Christ like their words and actions are and that they've been duped into blindly accepting a vengeful punitive God who smites everyone who doesn't measure up.