Connected To Everything (Revised) Poem by Margaret Alice Second

‘The World is dead, only humans are conscious
or self-aware’; the idea made me feel so lonely,
commiserating with a mindless existence for all
other things – I cried over repetitive cycles of
mating and dying, the meaningless ‘being’ in
an unfeeling universe, then found spiritualism

Where all particles of everything have degrees
of awareness, purpose of life is to strive against
non-existence, all forms of being delight in form
change, moving to solar rhythms – quantum
physics provides explanations that save us
from Western materialism, a view changing

The whole world; I feel connected to everything –
no-longer a ghost in a machine, each particle is
alive like me and the basis of a physical world is
consciousness created by intelligent, benevolent
energy rejoicing in each creation. We’re free to
experiment with all possibilities, an unlimited

Range of imagination, our choices change the
World as it evolves according to our ideas – a
release from materialism’s static sadness, a
freedom knowing that life is infinite possibility
and not as was predicted to be a lonely ghost
in Descartes’ dualistic machine!