Scientists say there’s a vacuum in space,

A place where nothing is.

Darkness, oh darkness, please open their eyes

To the light that surrounds us.

A robotic sensor sends an impulse

Over electric wires

To a computer brain

That applies logic as gates fire,

Sends out a signal to adjust a voltage,

To maintain closed loop control,

Air conditioners, reservoir levels,

Electric trains, steel mills roll.

The scientists calculate,

The engineers automate,

The lawyers regulate,

The medical doctors pontificate,

The achitects masturbate,

Erections in the sky.

Who will close this loop?

Mother Earth will seal our fate.

Glaciers melting devastate,

Hurricanes and rising seas

Will bankrupt the nation-state.

Barry Commoner wrote The Closing Circle,

Trying the population to awake,

Wholism and reductionism,

The eagle and the evil snake.

When we love one another,

When a man and a woman mate,

When they reach inside each other,

When their energies embrace,

Then we must follow through,

Then we must be honest and true,

Pulling each other through

Coming out the other side of

The wall that separates us from Love,

These two forever mates.

When thoughts are not completed,

When actions are left undone,

When there is no accountability,

When there is no care, just lots of fun,

Then Nature cleans the waste away,

Lets others try a different way.

When all is insobriety,

Nature will cancel the electronic key.

Such surplus is soon stolen by rats,

The disengaged feed those in packs,

Hunting for their next repast,

Knowing it might be their last.

Close the loop for integrity.

Follow through for that’s the key.

Don’t leave good intentions at the door.

Be prepared to fight for evermore

If that’s what’s required to stay true

To the creed of justice and the Golden Rule.

There is no escape for those who rue

The choices made that lead to shame-

The Law of Karma’s still the same.

Close the loop,

Make the connection,

Complete the cycle,

Pay attention,

Speak the truth,

Follow through without ruth,

For that’s the secret to the path,

The Way, the Tao, the secret math,

The formula for ensuring care,

For being responsible.

For freedom dare!