Staying

“It will not be easy, but this is our next move I feel, not to remake the system but to LEAVE it in whatever ways we can. This is what remains for us to do, to band together and "Sysexit." The time is NOW.

That WE, as ONE, the children of Love, are the Saviors of this world, and that the power is in us, AS us, IS the Truth that will set us free. Come OUT of here. Let the system crumble when we exit. We will still BE--and we will be FREE.”

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Sometimes I want to quit

Sometimes I want to say, “No matter what we do, it doesn’t work.  I am out of here”

Sysexit

Indeed

But I cannot do it!

I cannot let the system crumble as I exit

with my “principles” (or whatever) intact.

I cannot walk away

and rejoice in my liberation

for it is not just about me

and I have to ask

at what cost my freedom?

what happens to the poor

to the children,

to the emigrants,

the mentally ill?

What happens to all those vulnerable people,

If I walk out because of, well, “me”?

When have the true “saviors of the world”, the “children of love”

the people of the Spirit, the “spiritual elite” ever walked out?

That would be like Gandhi running from India, because it was too big of a mess

Martin Luther King hiding some place safe because the way was hard and dangerous

Jesus, ascending before the cross,

leaving the world without the lesson contained in his death

These are hard times

staying and working is hard, dirty work

it does not allow for a spiritual exceptionalism

that places one above others

it is tiring, frustrating, and oh so costly

ask Gandhi, ask King, ask Jesus.

as for me I will stay in the mix

and will do the best I can to work for justice and equity

in a world without either

I will work with people who are imperfect

I will take small successes, and celebrate

I may not always get what I want

I may not always succeed

but I will stay

I will stay