Life is like an ecstatic dancer. To keep your balance, you must keep counter-stepping with the music.
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Knowing a thing, is not the same as understanding it.
One is an extension of a function, the useful repetition of that thing,
The other, of contextualizing, placing it through a dynamic universe.
A hammer develops to be used for a physical need, of hitting at spikes and nails,
But it morphs into a shaping tool, a chipper, or even weapon in certain situations.
Knowing is a one way journey that ends at utility extent,
Building itself into a great pyramid upon a pinnacle ideal.
But understanding keeps returning to see all sides around,
Unable to take knowable form, so that everything it can be.
We know a thing, so we can use it,
And understand it, to make it more.
To be charitable, you need to have something in excess,
To be generous, you only need what you already have.
I love the generous, for they gave me a piece of their soul,
But those of charity, first looked down upon me as lacking.
But, no shame did I feel, when basic services were generously offered,
Not because I required such kind charity, but because I was a human.
When a home’s pricing did not befall me upon streets,
When food and water was provided daily unpoisoned,
When healthcare was a free service healing me proper,
When mentalcare was accessible to help me find place,
When participation was available aligning my interests,
When caretakers educated so my hard walls softened,
When a community sang together so I never felt alone.
Yet, this world of charity, is one of haves and have nots, power dynamics of these ‘benevolent gods’,
But a generous world, is of equalizing governance, pushing to flatten corrupted hierarchical systems,
Allowing quantized individuals, robbed to poverty, be freed to live in a community of generous society.
And, if everyday people can unite around commonality,
Then we can choose to value a far more generous world,
Providing basic needs, without snubbing-high our noses,
Or relying upon charity benefactors who maintain poverty,
And force us, cap-in-hand, to their breadlines for salvation.
But, when we reorient together, forcing changes on this cruel system,
The need for a 'world of charity' shall fade, as we embrace fairer ways.
And together, we shall breath calm, sustaining living ecologies,
We shall seek virtues, to codify laws that regulate equal justice,
We shall loyally protect the vulnerable, not the powerful’s riches,
We shall keep evolving, reflecting on death and consciousness,
We shall remember horrific memories, so they never fully repeat,
We shall meld disconnecting networks, into spacebound society,
And we shall code the machines, so ethics are their root function.
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