Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Enlightenment

Enlightenment

A step on the path of enlightenment
Current mood: frustrated

You people sicken me.
My pity now turned to scorn
Staring at a flock of people
Blindly following an unknown shepherd

Paralyzed by fear
You take each breath
Terrified to exhale
Disturbing the precious sandbox you stick your head in

Arrogant in your sciences
Assured of your superiority
You rely on technology
Never looking beyond the formula you calculate

You proselytize
You evangelize
Exclaiming disgust for your world
Blaming the devil for the actions of humans

Screaming for a world of love
While you incessantly judge your fellow man

Always quick to quote the ancients
"Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things"

Yet the words pass through your lips
Black and lifeless

Your hearts scarred
Centuries of desensitizing
Humanity destroying itself
One holy quest at a time

Ever the ashamed and humble child
Bowing to a God you claim to know
Yet only by your actions can you attain approval
Your infantile mentality poisoning you

A world in chaos
Like a ruby cube
Separated by little
Divided by much

You are your own enigma
Seeking to understand yourself
Never acknowledging
The human cycle you inevitably repeat

Your impatience
And it's addiction to instant gratification
A drug in your mind
As you yearn for a solution to your self inflicted disarray

Never stopping to think
The hand of self-obsession
You placed in your face
Has blinded you to the reality coming

When you finally see it
It will be too late

1 comment:

Moon said...

A poem about my paradigm shift on how I feel about those in your piece or anyone who holds to religious dogma and how I react to them now.

"Fair Play"

Some say I'm too tough
Hard to comprehend
Hard to deal with
Hard to love
Some say I'm too soft
Easy to push over
Easy to manipulate
Easy to love
It is hard to explain
Easy to cave in
Just shut up
And let the others do their thing
Think what they want
Do what they want
Hold no one accountable
For their actions
We all mess up
We all have faults
We all have lives
After All.
But if we hold no one
Especially ourselves
Accountable
For our actions
For our reactions
For our inactions
Then how do we live?
Responsibility is a big word
And a bigger deed
We are in this life
To learn
And teach
Every moment
Every breath
Every heartbeat
What we get out of it
Is up to us
Alone
Individually
Subjectively
We can do no more
Good
In this life
In this world
In this universe
Than to be the best
Student
Teacher
Partner
To everyone around us
Including ourselves
That we can be
We must not judge
That one person's way
Is better than another
Simply that it is
A different point of view
A different way of living
A different style of loving
The blind can get along
Without the one-eyed man
And if he thinks himself king
Because of his sight
It will only be until
The novelty of him
Has worn off
For the blind have
Everything mapped out
Each step counted
Every object
Accounted for and memorized
Those with sight
Move things around
Step outside the lines
Wonder what is beyond
We can no more
Cause someone to awaken
Than we can restore
Sight to the blind
Hearing to the deaf
Voice to the mute
Though we can offer them
New ways to explore
Their world
Tell our tales
Without expecting
Any of it
To be heard
To be understood
To be believed.
For us to try to understand
Within ourselves
That all find out
Exactly what they need to know
When they need to know it
In ways only they can know it
And sometimes
We are the messenger
Bearing tidings of great joy
And sometimes
We are the lunatic
Ranting unheard on the corner
It doesn't matter what you think
You are
Except to yourself
And you can never
Ever
Make someone see you
Any other way
Than the way that
They do.
Words
Actions
Beliefs
Are up for random
Interpretation
And if you want to be
Unconditionally accepted
For your unique being
Then it's time to ante up
Folks
Because
Turnabout
Is Definitely
Fair Play.
RMRF 08