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And Mother is holding the globe on the end of her
necklace out
For us to look at; for us to look into
And we look and the globe gets bigger
It is the size of a basketball
And we take it in our hands
And we spin it around
And it spins fast!
It spins fast this globe does
We watch fascinated at how quickly it is able to
spin itself around
And now Mother grabs hold of the globe
And stops its spinning cold
And all that is on the Earth keeps moving forward
It is as when a speeding car suddenly stops
And the passengers keep moving forward
Into the front windshield they move
So this is happening to all on Earth
The globe has stopped spinning
But they keep moving forward due to momentum
It is a few moments before they stop
And when they do they are not at the place they
had been at
No one is
Nothing is
No one and nothing is where they had been
All on Earth has moved
Every single thing
And the people look around in a daze
What has happened
And
Where are we
They had not even perceived the spinning of the
globe
They only felt it when the globe’s spinning had
stopped
And they kept moving
That is when they felt the motion
While the globe was spinning they had not
perceived
Anything unusual, nothing at all
The scientists had, but kept quiet about it
Because their governments told them to
Because their governments did not want their
citizens upset
Did not want the populace destabilized
And now nothing is as it was
Land is where water was
And water is where land was
And people are in each other’s countries
And know not which country they are in
What is this strange place
What am I doing here
What are we doing here
How did we get here
And the people wish to return home
They all get up and move
And again there are mass migrations
For each segment of the population longs for its
own home
And so they move
Not realizing that their home itself has moved
And they travel about looking for their home
And truly the population is lost
They recognize not the landmarks
They recognize not the Earth
They find not their home
And the people are bewildered and lost
And all is in a state of flux
All is in a state of change
That period after the before state
And before the after state
That state in between
When all is in transition
And all are confused
And some are frightened
And some are angry
But most just want things to go back to the way
they were
But of course that is not meant to be
Things never go back the way they were
Things move forward
They move forward
And the people must move forward along with them
But the people do not know this
They want to go home
They want the familiar
They want what they know
And so they wander the Earth looking for home
And find it not
And there is a great mixing of the population
Due to all its wandering
And all the people are now intermixed
Those who had been contained within one
geographical unit
Are now interspersed with those from another
And this is true the world over
And the people have no choice but to help each
other
For they are all in the same plight
And so we see stranger helping stranger
For the former stranger is now a neighbor
Is now a fellow
Is now someone in the same predicament as oneself
And the people reach out a hand to each other
They unite to help each other
They try to help each other
And their brotherhood and generosity with each
other
Is touching
Yes it warms the heart
And slowly, gradually
The people stop their insistence
On returning to the way things used to be
And start looking at their new reality as it is
And together they start to accept this new
reality
This new geography
This new Earth
And they settle in place
And they find that their new neighbors
Are people of a different color than they
A different ethnicity than they
In fact the new neighbor on the right is of one
color
One ethnicity
And the new neighbor on the left is of a
different color
A different ethnicity
And thus all the world’s people are interspersed
Are mixed together
For it as though they all got jumbled up
When the Earth stopped spinning
And of course
When they all migrated searching for their home
They all went in different directions
And now that they are coming to the realization
Of the reality of their situation
As they come to this realization
They stop in place
For truly they are tired of migrating
Truly they have realized that home is not there
anymore
And that they must make for themselves a new home
And each person
Comes to this realization and this acceptance
At his own pace; in his own time
And when he does
He stops, he stops, he stops
In bewilderment he stops
In confusion he stops
In dawning realization he stops
Do such things happen in our lifetimes
Aren’t such things confined to history books
Yes we know the Earth had changed in the great
distant past
But the past is over
We had expected stability within our lifetime
We had thought things would stay this way forever
And no that is not the way it is playing out
Earth has undergone massive transformations
before
And she is undergoing a massive transformation
now
And the people slowly, gradually, each in their
own capacity
Come to, albeit reluctantly
They come to accept it
And when the moment of acceptance comes
It is usually accompanied by a moment of
exhaustion
For truly it is the exhaustion that hastens the
acceptance
And the person stops in place
And decides to settle where he or she is
And thus it happens that the people of the world
Are now all interspersed
And who had been living in the north
Is now living in the south
Or in the east
Or in the west
It is random
It is all random
There truly seems no rhyme nor reason
As to why each individual ended up where he did
But settle down they finally do
Accept their new situation they finally do
Look around at their new reality they do
Look around at their new neighbors they do
And yes they have no choice
For all are in the same boat
And all are in need
And to survive one must help each other
That is the only way they can survive
And the people know this
And truth be told
All the old distinctions
All the old divisions
Seem so irrelevant now
One forgets how or why they had ever been
important
One forgets
And one is grateful for the neighbor’s helping
hand
And one reciprocates as one can
And thus stability returns to the land
And thus the people create their reality anew
To correspond with their new situation
And it is as though all are starting from scratch
Truly this shakeup has been a great equalizer
And all are starting anew
And all are starting from the same relative
position
For truly the old distinctions no longer hold
Rich or poor are no longer relevant terms
They hold no meaning
No not yet
It will take a long time for these terms to come
back
Into the people’s reality
For now they mean nothing
They mean nothing
And it is as though all are immigrants
And it is as though all are refugees
And no there are no refugee camps built
For there are no ‘saviors’ to build them
There is not a healthy, whole, untouched group of
people
To take charge and to control the refugees
No there is not
The people themselves take charge
The people themselves create their new reality
The people together create their new reality
And surprisingly enough
This new reality
Is more peaceful
And yes more satisfying
The people are more content
There is less depression and neuroticism in the
world
As the people go about with purpose
Building their new homes
Helping each other
Working together
Helping each other to survive in this new Earth
of theirs
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