My Birthday Bash - the big Three-Zero! A fundraising appeal, please read!

 

My band, F.I.G.M.O, will be headlining a show in support of both
Young Indian Futures and The Sophie Lancaster Foundation.
We are declaring War... On stress, suffering and inequality!

Just a short post this time guys, I humbly present a little poem for you all in anticipation of a charity fundraising event that I'm putting on to mark the occasion, Sept 6th, Ducie Bridge, Manchester.

I debated whether to put this up online or not, but I thought for readers all over the world it would give us all an excellent opportunity to practice a bit of "Dana" (or empathetic generosity), and hope that perhaps some of the people out there that read this will consider making a donation through the "Just Giving" links at the bottom. I figured it would be more skillful to give people a choice of two incredibly worthy causes to support, so please consider making a donation, it would be the best present I could ask for! With that in mind, I humbly offer you this little rhyme after a few weeks reflection....

  

Inspired by moments from others now past,

Weaving a Tapestry though I know it won't last.

Drawing the threads from the living and the dead 

With a sense of 

Direction

Which, under closer inspection

Is not all that different to this buck I've been passed.

I perceive it to be quite fitting to state

The reason we're here,

And how we relate

Because whatever the name or the face is,

The gender or race is,

The space, time, or the places we find ourselves in

Both without and within,

We're exposed to this lie that 

Descends from on high,

To go out and buy,

To consume til you die...

...That selfhood and "I" is enough to supply

The reason and "how" and the "why" of it all.

Thus we all fall.

But don't take it from me, it's what Phil Larkin said:
A poet, a scholar, a genius and dead.
"Being fearful or brave

Saves no-one from the grave."
But he also taught me the value of "Days"and

That's there's more to this life than the Purplest of Haze!

So this is not about me,

Or how old I might be,

Or looking great for 30,

Or false modesty...

This is not affirmation,

Or ideas above stations

Or human morality

Or my own increasingly looming 

Sense of mortality...

No. 

This is bigger than one night

It about stepping up to the plate, guys,

And doing what's right.

So dig deep my friends

Cus who knows when it ends?

But poetry, music and kindness transcends

Us All.

Forever.

In Peace - Jai Bhim!

Please feel free to consider making a donation or read up on these two fantastic groups and the life-changing work they do! Lets make some positive ripples on this mill pond, you never know where they might take you...


Yours, looking for the largest stone,
The Dharma Farmer

Myself and the media students at the Aryaloka Training Academy,
Nagpur, India.

Young Indian Futures:
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The Sophie Lancaster Foundation:
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May any merit gained in my acting thus be dedicated to the benefit of all beings, not one excluded, and to their increasing and lasting happiness. May all beings be well, may all beings be happy, may all beings live in peace.