I am now a teacher without teams or students
I am now a teacher for myself and the others
who want to hear me
who want to read me
who want to talk with me
and that is wonderful,
i can celebrate life every day!
SONG TO A NEW MORNING

There are teachers who say that the world is a gas.
There are others who think it's a pain in the ass;
There are some who insist that we never will know,
and those who reply that we'll know if we grow.

There are teachers who preach that we all must be celibate,
but others say sex is divine as THEY tell of it;
some say have orgasms, others say "no,
turn the energy inward and feel how you glow."

There's karma and dharma and chanting and prayer
and yoga and acid and "Christ-ian care.

There are teachers who preach that we'll reap what we sow
while others insist that we let go and flow.
There are some who hold out for us pie-in-the-sky
with spirits to guide us around when we die.

Some say we're doomed to eternal damnation
unless we wear hair shirts "and love flagellation.

The physicists give us a relative space
with particles bouncing all over the place.
They tell us we never can know what is true
because seeing it changes the whole point of view.

There's tantra and mantra and teachings like honey.
Some give it away and some charge lots of money.

Elizabeth Gips