I Will Not Bow Down: global version 
 
by Ron Whitehead
 
 
I will not bow down
 
I will not bow down     
to your Government
    to your Religion
 
I Will Not Bow Down 
    to your Materialism
    to your International Corporations
    to your Religious Shrines
        your Stock Markets
        your Shopping Malls
 
I Will Not Bow Down 
    to your Coal Mines
    to your Oil Refineries
    to your Nuclear Plants
 
I Will Not go crawling down the deep shafts at midnight
 
I Will Not Bow Down
    to your invasion of privacy 
    to your moral absolutes
        your religious political might
 
I Will Not Bow Down
    to your Assassins
        the International Corporate Police State
        the World Trade Organization
        your Killing Murdering Machines
 
I Will Not Bow Down 
    to your Bureaucracies
    to your Schools
    to your attempt to make me the model citizen
        of your State of your Church
 
 
I Will Not Bow Down
    to your Fear-Based Hissstory
        of Lies
    to your Secrets
        in the Best Interest of
            to protect
            the People
 
    I Pledge Allegiance
        to those who were here before you
        to those who will be here after you are gone
 
    I Pledge Allegiance
        to the woman I love
 
    I Pledge Allegiance
        to my children to my grandchildren
                                to all my children to come
 
    I Pledge Allegiance
        to my family friends and allies
        to my guides and angels
            seen and unseen
 
    I Pledge Allegiance
        to poetry to music to art 
        to the global literary renaissance
        to the global arts community
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to the Beat to the Outsider
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to meditation to stillness
        to magic to beautiful mysticism to ecstasy
        to AH and AHA
        to the Big Bang Epiphany
        to altered states of consciousness
 
    I Pledge Allegiance
        to seeing
            into the occult the unknown
        to seeing
            into every day into the ordinary
                and being amazed
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to the Sacred and the Profane
        to gnostical turpitude
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to my physical body
        and to the knowledge that I am more than
            my physical body
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to seeing more than
        the physical world and to those
        of higher frequency vibration
            and consciousness
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to passing through
                the Sacred Fire
        to entering the upper chamber of the golden pyramid
        to levitating over the open sarcophagus
        to out of body experience
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to hard work
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to honesty
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to red wine
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to the hottest sex
        and to gentle affection
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to fractal geometry
            the geometry of clouds and coastlines
        to 2x2 equalling 5
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to Failure
        to failing as no other dare fail
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to taking risks
        to holy daring
        to accepting responsibility for my own actions
        to helping my neighbors
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to not achieving
        the International Corporate Dream of Success
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to trees to green grass
        to brown earth to wildflowers of every color
        to wilderness to turquoise indigenous skies
            to native peoples everywhere
            to dolphins and whales
            to rivers lakes and seas
            to healing the earth
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to the Holy Spirit
        to the Word and to Silence
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to Dreams
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to Birth to the Journey and to Death
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to No Mas to I Am No More
 
    I Pledge Allegiance
        to Candor to Sincerity to Laughter to Irony
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to Passion to Compassion
        to Empathy and to Helping Those in Need
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to Resurrection of the Heart
 
    I Pledge Allegiance to GOing Beyond Beyond Beyond
 
NO 
I Will Not Bow Down
 
 
Ron Whitehead
 
Copyright (c) Ron Whitehead 2005 & 2006
 
Ron Whitehead
ron@tappingmyownphone.com
www.tappingmyownphone.com 



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