Ron
Whitehead
I
Will Not Bow Down (Global Version)
I will not bow down
I will not bow down
to your Government
--- to your Religion
I Will Not Bow Down
-- to your Materialism
--
to your International Corporations
-- to your
Religious Shrines
----- your Stock Markets
----- your Shopping Malls
I Will Not Bow
Down
-- to your Coal Mines
--
to your Oil Refineries
-- to your Nuclear Plants
I Will Not go crawling down the deep shafts at midnight
I Will Not
Bow Down
-- to your invasion of privacy
-- to your moral absolutes
--
your religious political might
I Will Not Bow Down
--
to your Assassins
------ the International Corporate
Police State
------ the World Trade Organization
------ your Killing Murdering Machines
I
Will Not Bow Down
-- to your Bureaucracies
-- to your Schools
--
to your attempt to make me the model citizen
------
of your State of your Church
I Will Not Bow Down
--
to your Fear-Based Hissstory
------ of Lies
-- to your Secrets
------
in the Best Interest of
--------- to protect
--------- the People
I Pledge Allegiance
to those who were here before you
to those who will be here after you are
gone
I Pledge Allegiance
to the woman I love
I Pledge Allegiance
to my children to my grandchildren
to all my children to come
I Pledge
Allegiance
-- to my family friends and allies
-- to my guides and angels
------
seen and unseen
I Pledge Allegiance
--
to poetry to music to art
-- to the global literary
renaissance
-- to the global arts community
I Pledge Allegiance to the Beat to the Outsider
I Pledge Allegiance
to meditation to stillness
-- to magic to beautiful
mysticism to ecstasy
-- to AH and AHA
--
to the Big Bang Epiphany
-- to altered states
of consciousness
I Pledge Allegiance
--
to seeing
------ into the occult the unknown
-- to seeing
------
into every day into the ordinary
---------- and
being amazed
I Pledge Allegiance to the Sacred and the Profane
--
to gnostical turpitude
I Pledge Allegiance to my physical body
--
and to the knowledge that I am more than
-----
my physical body
I Pledge Allegiance to seeing more than
------
the physical world and to those
------ of higher
frequency vibration
---------- and consciousness
I Pledge Allegiance to passing through
----------
the Sacred Fire
-- to entering the upper chamber
of the golden pyramid
-- to levitating over the
open sarcophagus
-- to out of body experience
I Pledge Allegiance to hard work
I Pledge Allegiance to honesty
I Pledge Allegiance to red wine
I Pledge Allegiance to the hottest
sex
-- and to gentle affection
I Pledge
Allegiance to fractal geometry
------ the geometry
of clouds and coastlines
-- to 2x2 equalling
5
I Pledge Allegiance to Failure
--
to failing as no other dare fail
I Pledge Allegiance to taking risks
-- to holy daring
--
to accepting responsibility for my own actions
--
to helping my neighbors
I Pledge Allegiance to not achieving
--
the International Corporate Dream of Success
I Pledge Allegiance to trees
to green grass
-- to brown earth to wildflowers
of every color
-- to wilderness to turquoise
indigenous skies
---- to native peoples everywhere
---- to dolphins and whales
----
to rivers lakes and seas
---- to healing the
earth
I Pledge Allegiance to the Holy Spirit
--
to the Word and to Silence
I Pledge Allegiance to Dreams
I Pledge
Allegiance to Birth to the Journey and to Death
I Pledge Allegiance to
No Mas to I Am No More
I Pledge Allegiance
--
to Candor to Sincerity to Laughter to Irony
I Pledge Allegiance to Passion
to Compassion
-- to Empathy and to Helping Those
in Need
I Pledge Allegiance to Resurrection of the Heart
I Pledge
Allegiance to GOing Beyond Beyond Beyond
NO
I Will Not Bow Down
Copyright
(c) 2007 Ron Whitehead
