Birthright from The Panopticon by Melissa Finn

Struggles in social and political spaces
Are guideposts
For a collective to identify its purpose
And rectify
Unacceptable status quos
End the control of thoughts, desires, and actions
Of people on their journeys not causing injuries
And acceptance that they should be made controllable

Oh, the joy when we re-thread fraying social fabrics
And heal our collective connectedness

Squeezed by life
We learn the meaning of existence
Gain tools to teach leadership
Resilience beyond rationality
Seeing the good in people
Growing our politics in strength and compassion

It is through intuitive understanding, consciousness, silence
Not logical analysis
That one finds guidance
Locates principles for governance
A physics of a higher intelligence

Found in those places
Those spaces
Where living is in the sheer force of the certainty
Of people as human beings
All sentience. Entirely
All worthy of flourishing

After all, what Is, is
And Is, is a birthright
What is the vibration of those who give freely
And manifest goodness over and over again?

We master our experience
When we switch our vibrations
Love and transcendence dissolves
The pain in our hearts

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