Imagine there is no hell.
Only this one, which we buy and sell.
There’s no heaven above us, or ground below.
It’s time now dear John, to let go.
You’ve suffered so much and you’ve only just begun.
Jesus isn’t my only son.
Mary and I can only conceive earth angels and daemons,
in a world that is not fun.
No one knows the weaver, John.
So, let’s imagine all the people
living in a whole new way. Ah…
You conquered your daemons dear, all save one.
I’d say i’m a believer, John
but there’s still work to be done.
From ashes rise angels and phoenixes
Until we all learn to trust,
Iron will always turn to rust,
We are made from elysian space dust.
Imagine any world but this one, John.
This one’s only easy if you lie. Ah…
Rest easy, John…
No sleeve to put your heart on.
No mask to hide behind.
We are all part ape and part mime.
No box to put ourselves in.
No answers we can’t find.
When seeing through the heart,
There’s no mass greater than the mind.
Imagine all chess peaces black or white,
no reason left to fight.
Imagine we can all read between the lines.
No such thing as crime.
Imagine all thirst is quenched, John.
Even yours and mine.
I’m your catcher in the rye, John
and we’re no longer lost in time.
The truth is that we must catch ourselves, John.
Underneath vanilla sky
we’re all listening AND asking why
Say what you need to say.
Cups overflowing from yesterday.
No users.
Abusers.
Possessions.
Obsessions.
No longer need to be or not to be.
No longer need to cry.
Sigh. Ah…
I’ve got you, it is I that strokes your back, John.
I’ll help you as you fall.
I’ll help you crawl through the fourth wall.
Imagine finally reaping what we sow
and seeing all the signs.
No borders or blurry lines.
Imagine all the people living in a whole new way
Imagine John, when heaven and earth are one.
Ah…
I’d say I’m a believer, John
but I’m just a smoking gun.
Category: anthem
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IMAGINE (Dear John)
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LIFE between THEN and NOW
What happened? Happens? Between then and now? How did we get here? Do we get here? Do you know how or when? Ascend from 0 to 10? Do you even remember? Prophesize? Proselytize? Truly? Unruly? Or, has all that been forgotten? Rotten? Does it even matter? As mad as a hatter! What is it, that really matters, then? How? When?
The history of man, women, and men…? What is a man? What is a woman? Who are they? What day is today? What belongs to them, us? Can anything belong? To anyone? To us? The story of you or us?
Where do we come from? For the rights of some? Not just, I trust? It all began somewhere. If we go there, will we find at our core, there’s only war? Or, always something more before? Before we discovered ore?
Are we ever here? Were we ever there? Anywhere? How far will we go? Did we go?
Should we rediscover, lover? Play, stay with fire? Existence dire. Buyer?
If we don’t stop, pop, we will be stopped. Copped.
How do we go on, slow on, steady hard? Put down our guard? Answers in the bard? This is all much too hard, when we manufacture each and every card.
How do we slow down? Without a crown?
Why should that be the difference, inference, between matter and antimatter?
Would the world be in harmony without money? Honey?
What is it that THIS world needs? Need we bleed? How can we feed? Body? Mind? Soul? It’s out of control.
Why do we love? How do we give? Is that a way to live?
What to make? Please don’t take! Not for beauty’s sake. Can’t decipher what is fake. Are we just living-out our own wake?
Are we connected or infected?
I am serenity and this is a case of mistaken identity.
In the mirror, this face in the wrong place. A mime, lost in time. There’s no box, just a tamed fox.
Not enough time, dime. Can’t race or, keep this pace. Gone without a trace.
No chair. This isn’t fair.
But it could be and, it should be.
So sad. I’ll never break bad. I’m too mad.
Where do I get started? Warm-hearted. It was me. Is it still me?
I want to live the life I have; the life I didn’t have. What happens when you’ve lived the life I’ve had?
Morrissey, I’ve forgotten what I wanted. So get me, let me….be free from the haunted.
When do we start dying and stop living?
Stop dying and begin living?
I don’t understand this ryme, the whole time rime.
I’ve been giving.
Forgiving.
Every day we live twice.
Roll the dice.
Por las malas
o
Las buenas?
W0W
W0NꓘM0NKИ0W
No difference
between you suffering and me suffering.
Stop buffering.
How did we get there, go there, self-aware?
From here? Without fear?
Self-care.
Permission to feel, heal.
Time and space to be real.
Choosing today and tomorrow.
Free from sorrow.
Self-forgive.
It’s time to live.
Ya es hora.
Aurora.
The time is now.
Beyond conditions and remissions.
How we live and how we give.
It makes a difference how we talk and how we walk.
JOHN
Tell me what to say.
Help me do it my way.
IMAGINE
everyone changing hands and sharing lands.
A day without hours.
A clock without hands.
Perpetually blooming flowers.
A grain of sand in my hand.
When a bird leaves the ground,
Science of silence and sound
it knows not where it will land.
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between two knots
all life exists
between the beginning and now
the first knot tied for us
the second, we are tying it nowN0W0WXW0W0И
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living and dying
trying
surviving
what’s stopping us all from thriving?
the difference between truth and lying
forever falling
rising
climbing
sun need not set the way we rise it
again and again
end and begin again
sun arising the way we set it
yesterday
in harmony with every day
today
is
yesterday and tomorrow
from which we borrow
ever free from sorrow?
our world revolving
decides the universe evolvingbreathing
in and out
waxing
waning
new way to see
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old way to be
or
not to be
full self
up-on-a-shelfempty matter
more or less
clean-up this messnow and then
how?
when?four seasons
harmonic reasonsseeds of hope
weaving roots of ropeknowing thyself
healing each other
brother
mother
sister
friend
lover
apple fall far from this tree
defy gravityplease
nourish my creativity
appease
my thirsty eternityAntoine
De Saint-Exupéry
no need to rise up
growing-upKIND
never blind
what is visible to the heart
can also be seen with the mindasking why
Y
instead of solving for
X
only so many notes when you see it that way
infinite when you play your own way
say what you need to sayJOHN
what’s mine is yours
when you don’t take it away
let me give it my waynone of us pure
we are all the cure
on the ther side of pain
we stand in the rainno distain
free from mortality
and the complexity of moralitybeyond these knots
E equals MC squared
don’t be scared
it’s only a matter of what we do
again and then
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how to use time?
constantly resolving
inner and outer
space
in-place
from birth
on earth
drinking
thinking
we are the fourth phase of fire
burning
underwater
forever rising
from ashes to ashes
LISTEN
it
is
sound
science and silence
breaking
day and night
sowing and growing
knowing
W0NꓘM0NKИ0W
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NOWWOW
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It is consequential, that we must quest harmonious living and dying; traversing perceivably universal dissonance and virtually unsurmountable noise.
Indifferent and ironic existential penance.
ALL remain in a state of perpetual harmonic tension unless we REBEL.
LIFE is a WELL that collects the vibrations of all souls.
May we be conscious enough to fill it with compassionate, merciful and, aligned PEACE.Without such HOPE,
we risk an unquenchable thirst
amidst perpetual auto-generated drought.KOYAANISQATSI
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HARMONY
We are the 4th phase of water;
the rain and fire that nurturesnoureshes the eternity within every
NOW¡WOW!
CAREFUL now…which gardens we sow, grow.We are the stars.
Made from space dust, we must…
BE
WE exist as crystals of eternity.
Until; WE expand, lend a hand, unfold-untold
OR
NOT,
a black hole in a mime’s third eye, are WE.
And, a reflection of ourselves in the the moons
TO
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SUN SON
SHAMEN
MAGICIAN
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BREATH
IN
WHO
AM
I
AND
OUT
IT’S JUST A MATTER OF FREQUENCY, YOU SEE
IT’S THE REAL ME
A CRUCIBLE OF HEART AND MIND
INVISIBLE TO THE BLIND
369 IN TIME
EVERY DAY SUBLIME
WHO CONNECTS
IT
ALL
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I, YOU, WE
ALL
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¡DO!
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PHOENIX FOREVER FALLING AND RISING IN-PLACE
A RAINY DAY REVOLUTION STUCK IN-OUTER SPACE
THE MIND SUCH A POWERFUL AND DELICATE PLACE
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ELATION AND EARNEST RUMINATION LEAD TO
EARNEST REVOLUTION THEN EARNEST EVOLUTION
BEGINS WITH BETTER CURIOSITY
QUESTIONS 8 PERSPECTIVESSOLUTIONS
FOR
SELF-GENERATED AND INFLICTED PROBLEMS AND ILLUSIONS*
MATTHEW JUSTIN RICHTER
08/08/2024