When the armored guardians of the tower look down, call out, demanding that you identify who you are, do not flinch. Stand your ground with courage and humility. Show them the open palms of your hands. Respond and say – you are the Che of the wretched of the Earth, a witnessing advocate for the small lives of creation.
Tell the sinister takers of twisted time and broken promises that you bring the healing medicine of peace to the killing fields of war. That you are the spring light of generosity freeing possibilities from the long, wintery shadows of greed.
The round table is laid out end to end, plentiful with fresh loaves with savory herbs, with cheese, with figs, with olives, with earthen pitchers of fresh, clean water, and with red and golden cups of wine—new wine pressed from vineyard hillsides. From villages of dancing feet.
When patriarchs and oligarchs and false prophets of status quo threaten and command you to go away, reply with prayers of lightning. Let your message sound the psalms of rolling thunder.
The shadow enlargers are warned long enough to understand that towers are built to be toppled. Stop pretending that self-proclaimed masters are anything other than mortal.
Say to the amassers of hoarded power that you are p’lante**, dignity’s legal seeds of the tree of life. Earth is sacred. And the good Earth is desperate for sweeping changes. Humanity is desperate for renewal.
Best of all acts, paths of experience and dreams of action invite the tower minority to come down, to find a place at the banquet of equality. Assure them in their fear of democracy that there is room enough here for us all.
David Sparenberg
*Che is friend..
**P’lante, to plant, to be planting as in a grassroots movement.
David Sparenberg is a humanitarian and eco poet, an international essayist and storyteller. He published four eBooks with OVI Books (Sweden) in 2025, one so far this years. He has just completed a play, political and contemporary but based in the traditions of German Expressionist Theatre, soon to be published and available for performance. David Sparenberg lives in Seattle, WA in the Pacific Northwest of the United States but identifies as an Ecotopian Citizen of Creation.
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