Invocation: Now Is the Time

When the triumphant prophecies of the Marian Magnificat will be fulfilled with many more,

Now is the time of the breaking of empires seen and unseen:

Built on the backs of time-managed, mind-managed slaves taught to fear death so much that they never  know life –

Those who continually conspire to take for themselves all that the people of Earth should by their rights retain,

Ensuring they will never go within to find  

That corruscating core within themselves, remembering the majesty of all they truly are.

Now is the time of the braking of power:

  When royal resolutions repeatedly railroaded through

 the grandly domed but ramshackle roundhouses of Earth’s overripe banana republics are finally turntabled

On which their lockscars would haul us in cattle culls

to terminal locations;

Their centuries-long train of abuses will be decisively derailed   

By switches engineered by the common people of this planet, 

Aided by visiting volunteer fire crews already onboard – our heavenly hosts, hailing from the furthest reaches of creation. 

Now is the time of the breaking of silence:

When voices seldom heard or heeded in human history 

Will prominently proclaim throughout the world their freedom through truth;

When horrors heretofore hidden in the darkest depths of the earth and of ourselves now surely shall be shown for what they are, 

Then radically regenerated or removed;

When many muted, muzzled mouths will open, talking in lost languages with tongues of fire,

Alighting on the heads of many millions in long-predicted planetary pentecost.

Now is the time of the breaking of dawn on Earth:

When this most ravishing and yet most ravaged orb of all within this universe 

Will whirl full circle through the spinning spirals of infinity, 

 Restoring with a sudden quantum leap of faith her former radiant raiment;

When this prodigious planetary prodigal processes as is prophecied upon the Milky Way, aligning with the vertex of its vortices,

She shall have reached the point of all return – the cosmic turning point for all eternity: 

While fully centered on the burnished burning glass within the sacred heart,

Earth will reclaim with fiercely focused fire her rightful and resplendent crown of stars.

Symphonic Accompaniment:  Fanfare for the Common Man-Aaron Copeland, 20th Century American Composer

Written/Spoken Word:  Rebecca Em Campbell, Contemporary American Classical Performance Poet

Sound Engineer: Steve Dittore

Producer:  John Benjamin Rodgers

 

This work was recorded at Jack Straw Studios in Seattle, Washington State, USA.  This artist-operated studio is named for Jack Straw, the folk hero who in 1381 led the Peasant’s Rebellion against the British Crown.