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Of Cooperation

eric mccarty
2 min readSep 8, 2021

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Of Cooperation — Poetry — Headless Now — Moca McCarty Photo

Of cooperation;

what we most truly are is a process of cooperation — of infinite seeming parts expressed as life in whole display. From the absolute of nothingness to the first hint of particles swirling to atomic structures, molecules giving form to cells and further still there comes a world of varied objects all held through common space.

existence lends itself to existence.

and even through the violence of survival there is the benefit of continuation — how one life is tied to the flourish of another. We see this in nature through the relationship of predator and prey, life linked in the prospect of another, and how both survive as species due to this dynamic.

life is an intricate balance.

or better truly seen as balancing — and this brings us back to process, that life is always expressed through motion, giving in the very moment of its loss, cyclical, as breath in both release and draw. Cooperation is the world’s soul, a lending of things across spectrum to the point of being seamless. A delicate balance of the whole.

to see this, of this cooperation — is our a return.

we are balancing, but tipped now to near extreme, our environment seeks solution through the violence of storms and excess of heat, wildfires, and loss fauna and flora so needed to the whole…

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eric mccarty
eric mccarty

Written by eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student

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