Tim Merry
Finding my feet
And already meeting
The slowness of this soil
This land
Which so much has passed over
A Blessing
No messin’
A Blessing
To have been bypassed
By the viral Rampage
Swallowing up my homelands
My Childhood lands
Which are wallowing in quicksands
Wild-life dissappearing
Wilderness becoming parks
Peoples wild side crushed – or called an illness
The digestion congestion
Of people, ideas, worlds
Trying to be controlled
Filling up a bottleneck
No room for breath left
The soul, greater goal bereft
Lonely
But never Alone
On the egdes and deep middle of our humanity
and Planetary
Geography
In the forgotten places
That we have the spaces
To co create
And forge the new
In the fires of the pain
Our planetary host is going through
Open Hearted embracing the bigger picture
Both Vulnerable and Potent
This is our moment
The Solitary spaces
Our time to Shine
Slowly, subtely, simply
We do what our heart
Which is the world’s heart
Guides us to do
Elders
Welders
Of the fragmentation
On the edge of design
At this time
Our conscious creation
In the hear and now
Nothing is more radical than being present
To the biggest whole
Our soul
Can hold
And the smallest next step
We can take
Into the new
We are the few
The crew
Of the Arks
In the solitary spaces
Forgotten Places
We are the few
The Crew
Of the Arks
Of the New Starts.
About the Author
Tim Merry of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia is a change leader who works locally and internationally to support change in communities, organizations and society. Participatory engagement, strategic clarity & collaborative action are the core of his practice. They work in direct response to the reality of the world we live in.
Tim designs, delivers and trains processes that are tailor made to meet the needs of all the people involved. “The complexity of the challenges we face, the speed of change and the uncertainty of our times demand we see a bigger picture that none of us could see alone. We must work together to intelligently plan and effectively execute actions that have far reaching impact.”