late to now

there is nothing like being late to now,

and we, as a species, by our own means,

are that way constantly.

what we have, as now,

is retentive reaction displaced,

a still-camera's view

and a cognitive edit 

that place us in, at best,

a refrain's worth 

of observance and presence.

but since we all agree to agree

by this continuance of our methods 

and the self-consciousness it generates,

time is honored,

senses are served,

and comprehension carries on.

this glitch is uniform 

throughout all of awareness.

meaning prevails as a rite of passage.

no one questions 

from a source-point beyond.

for we have no means 

of correction obvious.

we have endless tedium 

behind and beneath the all.

we can't come from comprehension

about the nature of comprehension

and attempt to fix the means.

we use, to generate the means we use.

we have say rise above the chaos

when the speak of it is part of the chaos.

we could ask for a change

but that does not address 

the fundamental issue.

we could ask about, 

from where do we speak,

but how to move self sense source 

and yet be heard 

as meaningful from beyond.

how we have agreed to agree about all say, in general,

is that in mind to mind 

does not generate the means

to address all of this. 

this requires a deeper sense 

of self as source,

so deep that the collective speaks it,

so deep that the feel 

becomes collectively evident,

so deep the movement authorizes itself

from a source place from within us all.

we have not the presence to see 

a reason for that.

we have not the training for that 

to easily occur.

only massive devastation as demonstration would serve

and even with that, bystander status, 

would be an operative only for some.

the conviction of being 

would have to be addressed

so that movement is by the heart, directed.

the signature of a oneness 

would then appear.

those with less soul awareness 

would be displaced.

the rise-up would be 

of emotional conviction,

species-wide and then-some,

to be wide eyed and honoring,

even to the inclusion 

of the planet in its operatives.

no more human in-fighting.

no more claims of control.

no more the apprehensions of victimhood. 

this is one sense of mindfulness 

served in many ways

as the now comes to register 

by a new means,

as a transformation of how thought works

and is functionally used,

as a source of selfdom 

from a deeper collective sense,

as a passage of care and concern 

that lives inwardly

and ongoing 

as the presence in time passing.

we are all the seeds of this already

but burdened beyond belief.

so much so,

that now is a remark we make

that has passed us by,

yet demands the human collective 

to redeem itself

if time is ever to be 

of a deeper assistance . . .