Am I

Am I the pebble
lying in the stream or the water freed from melting snow
Am I a dreamers sleeping dream
that has no home, nowhere to go
Am I a thought
to build the bridge between two points of view
I am at least one thing
I know, a solitary monument

That always longs for you.

Am I the quiver of a desert flower
or the roots that lie in sacred ground
Am I trapped in my ivory tower
until the day I knock it down
Am I the curious dragonfly
of orange and of blue
I am all things of that I’m sure,
but nothing less and nothing more

Than one that longs for you.

– Graham Russell

Air Supply concert last night at the Arcada Theater in St. Charles!  Air Supply is the soft rock duo from Australia, performing since 1975.  Graham Russell, and Russell Hitchcock continue to hit the high notes.  A first time to experience Air Supply perform live, I could not have asked for more.

During an interlude between sets Graham Russell recited a poem.  The recitation was a quiet moment in the midst of musicianship and lyrics, all transcendent.

I wrestle personally, emotionally conflicted, with a simmering malice toward those who express in words and in policy — racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female attitudes.  I am troubled to think that feelings of antipathy toward right-wing politicos, and their capitalist friends is a mirror image of the raw violence of exploitation they enact upon one another, and upon the earth.

So, where to from here?

The music as well as the point of view expressed in the lines of Russell’s poem is a worthy counter move; a counter argument to the ravening self-aggrandizement when we are possessed by fear,…

unable to see just how inter related we are to one another and to all things.

Time to knock down that ivory tower!