Quite the poem! Sums up much of the past to present, and reminds of Tecumseh about the white man..."never contented, but always encroaching", but nowadays also, for examples, Chinese mining, 'sell out/corporate Indians', ignorant settlers, and more...
Thanks for sharing that. There's a line from the Tao Te Ching (Thou Dei Jinn) that suits the topic: "Attain utmost emptiness; practice utter stillness."
Beautiful ❤️
Quite the poem! Sums up much of the past to present, and reminds of Tecumseh about the white man..."never contented, but always encroaching", but nowadays also, for examples, Chinese mining, 'sell out/corporate Indians', ignorant settlers, and more...
And as I'm reminded, of Robert Service's poem, The Men that Don't Fit in, which is what likely put this idea of "can't stay still" in my head:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58012/the-men-that-dont-fit-in
Thanks for sharing that. There's a line from the Tao Te Ching (Thou Dei Jinn) that suits the topic: "Attain utmost emptiness; practice utter stillness."
Thank you, Elisabeth. Hard truth.