Retreat

Is everyone in retreat?
Meditation retreat,
Detox retreat,
Loving couples retreat,
Yoga Retreat,
Women's Retreat,
Men's retreat.

"Open your mind,
Open your heart."
(Open your wallet).

Open your eyes.
Don't retreat.

The world needs less retreating and more doing.
More sharing and less going within.
More community and less solitude.
More pull, less push.
More Courage, less fear.
More Forgiveness, less ... ... ... fear.
Now is not the time to retreat.

I nudge my self from within:
"Step forward, relax,
speak from your truth."

I encourage with firm and gentle words:
"Donate, volunteer, reciprocate.
Share, ask, communicate.
Balance, stretch, breathe.
Listen, research, read."

And together we pray:
"Let unity come.
Come unity, come.
Let Community swarm,
A rising breath of passion,
a sea-swell heaving.

Let its nature be its nourishment.
Let people be its roots,
Let community be its core,
Let it sprout ideas a-plenty,
and project its branch-like projects,
throwing out leaves of abundance and gratitude.
Let it bloom glorious flowers of completion
and radiant achievement
for all to enjoy.
And benefit. And learn. And find peace therein."

And thus our mantra,
my self and me:
"Come unity come.
Don't ever retreat."

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