Occupy Your Heart
I spent last night
at the Occupy camp,
Sharing stories, food and love with strangers
Who are now my friends.
I have given three
paltry gifts to Occupy.
The first, a little fire to ward off the night
Around which the cold and lonely can warm their hands,
Dry their socks, hold hands and sing a song of hope.
My second gift...
a Christmas tree of wishes for a better world.
My thanks to all who have hung their hopes and fears upon it
It carries on it my vulnerability,
And bears a gift of a liberated rasta-fairy-an.
Thank you Linda for making her. Her name is Libertina.
Little tree, I hope
you can survive
Even though you are plastic and not real
It doesn't matter, you only cost me 50p in a charity shop
I wonder whose children you made happy before I rescued you
My third gift is My
Love, expressed in this poem
For Occupy has sustained me
As I have tried to sustain Occupy
The snow is falling
as I write and turns to white
A little encampment in Dalton Square
That has fed the homeless, the lost, the love starved
Think of it, and all that it represents
A true belief that another world is possible
This is the real Christmas,
for we together in One Love
Have re-Occupied a message spoken
By Jesus, Mohammed, Ghandi, Buddha, Mandela
And so many more.
The voices of a righteous
peaceful laughing anger
Carried to us by eternal champions of the poor
Stolen from us by the cold hearts
With lost souls
That seek to profit
From the trust of little children
They should be ashamed
and hang their heads
What would Jesus have said to see such hypocrisy
Mr Banker, as you tuck into your opulent turkeys
And munch the squalid profit of Wall Street,
Think of us and repent. There is still time.
If you believe in
Occupy...
Give it one gift this Christmas
You. Your Heart. Follow it. Live it
Be there, stay there, hug and laugh and cry there
For Occupy is the
true spirit of every religion
Of every political movement
Every prophet that stands outside the temple
Every peace warrior, every tree hugger
Every simple small act of charity
EveryOne
Give it Your Hands
Give it your Head
Give it Your Soul
Give it Your Time
Give it Your Love
Occupy Your Heart
Jxx