less hub and spoke

Who, in each of us,

invented the concept

behind the concept of the wheel?

Maybe that is simply the concept

of convenience

or the concept of short cuts,

as in a frame of reference

that deals with myopic immediacies

of what is happening

both outwardly

and quite evidentially

at the expense

and lack of expanse

of inner awareness and centeredness.

It would have been more dynamic,

both as a person and a species,

to have subscribed

to the we’ll instead.

A sense of the collective

beyond mass and trust

as the contractual cohesive

of that mass.

It could have approached

the oneness of the mass,

the empathetic of the mass,

the telepathic of that mass,

the collective unconscious

of that mass evolving.

But instead, we are imprisoned,

each with our own wheel sense

and our personalized hub

of singular solicitation.

All agreed upon necessities

for living towards the good life.

The only way around the mountain

is first to have a mountain

to go around and keep it in frame.

Convenience seems to provide

for some levity

to ascend that mountain

while circumventing it.

Mountain becomes the hub

of our existence moving forward.

We are all that journey

that we then speak of.

We are each individually

the global positioning systems

of all storied accounts we possess.

Tweets are small digestive farts

from that ongoing procession.

To turn a phrase;

What we need is,

less hub and spoke

and more we’ll . . .