CLOSED, STILL OPEN

For Anda Winters

how do we improvise in these difficult times?

how to keep our art and spirit alive?

we have to find a new way into the future

that is better than the way of the past.

perhaps now like children who have

woken the kraken from the deep

we’ll learn which laws

of life to keep.

no more can we blame god

or the gods. we are the evil

that keeps on coming back to us.

it’s time to re-examine our histories.

find a new road to the future.

get back to the balance we’ve lost

or we are on the path to dust.

our past has led us here.

but to have a radiant future

a new consciousness is needed.

something brave, beyond fear.

this must be the time of awakening.

the kraken’s here.

can we in these times improvise?

upwards our dreams must we revise.