"Exhibiting You" - Story
Wake Up
By: Barbara J Hunt
Submitted: 04/01/2009
| Wake Up The heat from the sun is melting me into the sea And it feels like I can hardly breathe The things that you do suffocate me But if you can wake up; you've been dreaming I supply your every need But if you can wake up, see you've been dreaming You can wake up You'll see that the heart of me Cos if you can wake up, see you've been dreaming |
The lyrics for this song were inspired by the mathematical cosmologist Brian Swimme who is a poet at heart. He says that survival of the fittest no longer determines which species ultimately live or die: the most important factor in the survival of any species is their relationship with humanity.
We have an enormous responsibility to unite our efforts to redefine and evolve the ways we live together and learn to thrive harmoniously, respectfully and sustainably with all the other forms which share this planet with us. It should be our primary and most urgent task.
I also believe that the best way to use "fame" is in service of evolving culture. That's why Planet Earth deserves to be a celebrity. Surely it is worthy of infinitely more admiration, attention and devotion than we give to our human celebrities who, let's face it, can't really compete with the awesomeness of billions of stars in the night sky, or the unstoppable force of a waterfall, or a stunning blackcurrant and raspberry sunset, or the purity and silence of freshly fallen snow, or the burgeoning of spring, or the diversity of millions of every kind of creature, or the simple miracle of water in all its forms. And if we would just "wake up" to it and our place in it, our responsibility to it, all will be well. We have the technology, the vision, the creativity. Now we just need to choose it.