Sense & Sensibility
Two ways of knowing
Combine to create a Third
Sense knows Form
Sensibility knows Formlessness
Compassion and Creativity know
The natural inclusion of Each in the Other
Motion in Stillness
Stillness in Motion
Sense without Sensibility
Breeds the Indifference
Sensibility without Sense
Breeds the Thoughtlessness
At the root of the Pride & Prejudice
Which collide on the Field of Human Conflict
Where Ignorance & Cruelty Abound
Causing endless Distress
At the expense of Loving Concern
This has arisen from my continuing feeling, in these desperately muddled and unpleasant sociopolitical times, of the urgent need to bring the thoughtful awareness ('sense and sensibility') of natural inclusion into the appreciative understanding of 'The Many as well as the Few'.
You might question whether or not it can 'play on the popular stage'. Certainly it won't play on the undemocratic, divisive political stage of adversarial 'populism' and 'majority rule' where the appeal is to the Pride & Prejudice that empowers one partial view at the expense of another instead of seeking the common ground that can bring all valid (i.e. truthful) views together.
But I think it can appeal to the common humanity that values kindness, reasonableness and honesty. And that is what gets my 'vote' - always has done and always will do, no matter how 'unpopular'. And that too is what I have always worked for, especially with regard to my efforts to communicate the meaning and implications of natural inclusion.