Look up from your keyboard and set yourself free!

Hi Everyone,

Today’s blog is actually a repeat of a poem I wrote a little while ago and a friend asked me to republish it, so to speak. And so here it is.

Apologies to those who may have read it before – but some of you may have missed it, having only recently joined the ABTY Blog, so I thought it could have a ” redo”!

If you have people in your life, who you think may benefit from reading it, I would love for you to share it, as I believe there is an important message within, and one that we can all use as a reminder in our own lives now and then – myself included.

The irony that this message is shared via technology is certainly not lost on me either – but in the absence of a postal address and a carrier pigeon – here I go ha ha ha!

Enjoy – share – and may it inspire you to put down your devices and truly connect, because this world is an extraordinary place not to be missed. And direct interaction, in my opinion, is the only way to truly experience its depth and treasure. 

An Ode to Connection

The platform’s so busy

With people so sad

As they bustle like robots

No joy do they have

As clouds drift by slowly

So free and so wild

Below them – humanity

A blithering child

Consumed by their Facebook

And thousands of friends

Ignoring what’s present

The crazy won’t end

Despite all this techno

To take up their time

Humanity is failing

Unable to shine

Their souls they are crumbling

Weighed down by such grief

Of connections once fertile

But now lost and so brief

Oh i-pod, oh i-phone

The scourge of our day

You cut off the people

And hid them away

In prisons of music

And Facebook and clouds

No longer connecting

To joys that abound

For just past those keyboards

Earphones and email

Is a world full of wonder,

And nature and scale

So look up – and see

All the joy that’s around

Connect with the Planet

Results are profound

For in every one of us

Our soul cries out loud

To look out from the prison

To this joy that abounds

So unplug those earphones

Dare to look – say hello

This grandeur is waiting

To put on a show

A show that can take you

To where you are best

A place that will nurture

Encourage your quest

For all your sweet pleasure

And the cost – it is free

So look out from your prison

And set yourself free.

For to know your full glory

And bring it to be

You must be connected

You must want to see

The wonder that’s waiting

When you dare to just be

So look out from your prison

And set yourself free.

[ Christine Denny 2014 ]

#DiscoverYou, #LoveYou, #BeYou

Christine