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What Wetiko Is And What We Can Be
A Poem about the Native American concept of Wetiko and our true human nature
Note: This poem is a follow-up to my previous post, where I examined the deeper psychological and spiritual meaning of the viral song and video “Hi, Ren” using the lens of a Native American concept called Wetiko, which author and shamanic healer Paul Levy has spent many years writing about.
Wetiko is…
a cancer cell,
growing for growing’s sake
until
there’s nowhere left to grow
and everyone you love and know
is dead and gone,
Mission accomplished.
Wetiko is…
a hungry ghost,
seeking satisfaction
it never finds,
yet always finding more ways,
more ways to consume the world,
boasting and toasting its way to the top
hoping to fill the empty hole it has
in place of a soul.
Wetiko is…
a vampire,
sinking its teeth
into the neck
of anything living,
sucking us dry,
until
there is no more…
