digital art: sharon auberle
Everything You Ever
Wanted
by
Christine Swanberg
One
day you may wake up to find
you
have everything you need.
What,
then, is
this stirring inside you?
Perhaps,
like the Dalai Lama,
your
soul is gathering forces
for
its next incarnation,
or
maybe the urge to refine
right
here,
right
now,
manifests
on this good planet.
Could
be you are part
of
a windy current
flying
above the jet streams to nirvana,
or
another current
has
simply sent you skating
past
a sociological dream
into
a post-consumer world.
I
read once that the Danish
are
the happiest people in the world.
They
live in a dark climate
eclipsed
by winter.
They
ride bicycles
and
eat lots of ice-cream,
have
less sex and suicide
than
the Swedes.
They
have less divorce, violence,
use
of guns, anti-depressants, locks,
and
religion than we do.
They
have higher taxes,
and
socialized medicine,
They
are not gobbling up the earth
or
each other.
One
day they woke up
to
find
they have everything
that
they ever wanted.
~
first published in SOUNDINGS
