POEM: To The See Tossing

Even
As a serious looker
She wore a millstone
Round her neck
Never experiencing a
Long enough
Too go
To the see tossing

This is a Monday poem for of you wage slaves.  It is far too common for working folks to dread their , particularly Monday morning.  I suspect that the overwhelming majority of workers have fantasized, perhaps even planned a little, about embarking on some other than their current trajectory of and career.  Given the tumultuous of many workers' , I am at times taken aback by how “even,” or even fateful, they seem, and how even relatively few “serious lookers” actually take the plunge into the apparent .  I reflect on my own multiple years process of disentangling from my own long (17-year) career path and “regular” .  After taking the plunge, my dropped precipitously and my quality of catapulted to previously unimagined heights.  As deliberate, measured and astute that I thought I was, I profoundly underestimated the benefits of taking the plunge.  This counts as one of the greatest lessons I have learned in my .

This poem alludes to the metaphor of a millstone around one's neck and being tossed into the sea, found in the , Matthew 18:6-9:

“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come! If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of .”

This passage sets a high bar, the , for causing a child of to stumble, to block the highest hopes in life.  This is a powerful condemnation of the bosses and that crush our in the coarse of their .  I don't blame workers, wage slaves, for their predicament.  They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price -- Kahlil Gibran quote POLITICAL BUTTONStill, the stakes are high for the oppressed worker.  Better to “enter life” maimed or crippled than live in .

Due, you need a .  Longing enough/Too go.  However slim it may appear, may you find that ever precious opening to life-affirming vocations…

 

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