[Joseph Ward]
Not to be confusing, but
dictators and autocrats
absolutely choose,
without any diplomates,
the regime’s format.
[Marlene]
True, and a detail like the
circle’s center can derail
a person’s thinking
by taking the next step that
perplexes, vexes
an otherwise stable path.
Joseph, my good friend, do not
suspend what you’ve worked
hard to comprehend about
principles over
tangibles being the best
solution to cover the
cost of what is lost
when infinity’s growing
possibilities
deflate to facilitate
only those that pose homage
to the correctly
chosen principles true to
your approved world view.
Ultimately, the first choice
must voice Tina’s allegiance
for taking guidance
from tangibles, or, making
principles her core
perspective for decisions
regarding resolutions
which society
must also tackle to lift
humanity far
above animalistic
behavior and tendencies.
This is the kernel
choice that sets ascendency
to discover acts
to be either reactive
or proactive and that is
universally
true for one person, or, the
whole community.
Joseph, which do you live by,
principles or tangibles?
[Joseph Ward]
Truthfully, by both.
[Marlene]
I grin at your resistance
at my insistence
to thin minutiae into
principles to govern life.
Like all animals
you hunger, so you eat to
deter starvation.
Carnivorous principles
apply with ravenous glee.
Vegetarians
fuss over the ruckus of
harvesting fresh meat.
Then there are the omnivores
who adore all edibles.
It’s incredible
to note that some ascetic
monks are emphatic
about consuming no more
than a few grains of rice each
day to suffice their
need for food to elude sins
of extravagance.
To say, “both” lessons the growth
I’m loath to simply ignore.
I’m certain that you
comprehend the scheme I mean
to send. Just pretend
for a moment that Tina
has learned that principles more
aptly discern traits
of character that best rate
mates better than states
of physical beauty or
rippling muscles that pound.
Once a person grounds
their decision making in
the sound support that
principles comport with their
intended quest for their best
goals that will improve
or degrade their souls with the
roles they must assume,
that person’s challenge will hinge
upon gathering stark facts,
understanding each,
with interrelationships
leaching throughout one’s
consciousness to convey a
vast array of principles
gleaned from every day’s
interplay of tangibles.
Tina has yet to
bet on principles over
the allure of tangibles.
You, my friend, defend
and challenge principles as
an elemental
principle to cripple voiced
misconceptions, flawed judgements
and skilled deceptions.
You’ve lived through many events
over many years.
I cheer your thirst for learning,
but regret your hidden tears
and the fear imposed
by those who chose poorly from
strong enticements bred
in tangible, flesh vessels
through which human spirits move
to prove truly what
was learned and approved, aiding
the self to improve.
What have you learned about your
lessons learned that in turn helps
your understanding
of Tina’s condition next
to your position?
[Joseph Ward]
Three years of E M D R’s
tough, white-knuckled, rough treatment
led to my healing
epiphany that the dread
bred from my childhood
predator could be conquered
by me if I would ignore
the flavor of fear
steered by mean brutes who refute
victims’ boundaries
to poison territories
of dreams with screams of night time
terrors that sever
peaceful sleep with past horrors.
Fifty years later
I would gather my courage
to assess my damage with
a piercing stare at
what scares me about the bare
truth housed in all those
who chose to abuse and use
my gentle innocence that
would then confuse my
navigational compass
to express the best
access to a meaningful
process for a healthy life.
I had to bang heads
with my strife to shed light on
the fact that I was
my salvation if I act
with determination to
call into question
others’ behaviors that weren’t
in my best favor,
but I had to endeavor
to discover principles
that would negate the
fate thrust upon my early,
not so great, childhood
adolescence. At present,
the lesson learned is to earn
back self sovereignty
by finding and applying
principles alined
with healthy governance of
the sensuality of
fleshy tangibles,
but, at this very moment,
what seems to me to
be very improbable
is my newly found arrant
arrogance with my
believing that I could save
Tina by solving
the dilemma that always
is only her’s to resolve.
[Marlene]
We care and we share,
but we can never, ever,
absolve anyone
of the challenges of life
that may ravage or bless them.
Regardless of the
goodness in your heart, life starts
with labor’s sharp pain.
Precipitous challenges
stem from creation’s fine gem
of evolution
that abides by a rigid
mantra: Grow or die.
You know intoxication’s
prison because your brother
suffered the effects
of alcoholism’s slow,
pungent decay toward
death’s final rest that blest his
athletic prowess stolen
by a drunken rage
that engaged fist to ram glass
that slashed back sharply
severing hand from his arm.
Don’t be alarmed, Joseph, I
know much about you
that does not outwardly show.
In time all will flow
into your consciousness, but,
for now, focus attention
on the extension
of what you have earned thus far
in this plush bazaar
of jarring reflections gained
from investigating pained
memories restrained.
Tina must choose as you must
choose to trust this course
as the source of your success
to manifest an evolved,
ever expanding,
consciousness that cares and shares.
Accordingly, the
fusing of living correct
principles to bipedal,
fleshy tangibles
dashing around here and there
brashly committed
to square away, crassly, their
nagging animalistic
desires that are
hard wired into flesh’s best
interest to breed
frequently, instinctively
to heed the need thoughtlessly
to procreate must,
then regulate actions through
the filtering gate,
Order of Operations,
to resist an adverse fate.
At twenty-five and
still alive, Tina will thrive
and survive on her
choices, voiced (or not), foist first
upon her at birth that starts
the cause-effect chain
that charts her gains and the pain
of severe losses.
You, my self assured friend, have
endured the same gauntlet set
at birth that unearthed
similar trials equal
to her discomfort.
You’ve traveled through your torments;
nursed your bruised and battered soul;
rolled out infused with
staunch determination to
launch the formation
of self-reliant, somewhat
defiant, stubborn, public
steadfast personas.
You’ve grown past her position.
Your decision now,
as one who cares and shares, is:
What will you transmit for the
public wit and its
possibly harsh censorship?
We’ve come a long way
this trip, but to lay our
burden down now sounds unwise
because we would skip
the last imperative task
to be unzipped to
equip our consciousness
to assess what the Order
of Operations
will mess up if left to slip
into the vast void
of negligent ignorance.
The importance of choosing
the appropriate
principle to implement
from the palate of
your lessons learned won’t render
sufficient returns if your
application lacks
the exact sequence needed
for resolution
from the execution of
multiple, picked principles
that are required
for the desired outcome
free from fatal flaws.
In twenty-eighteen you deemed
it most prudent to stream the
internet to get
good information on arms
exportation that
teemed with sharp revelation
why world peace currently is
a sad illusion.
In that same year, as you feared,
the top ten nations
engineered a cool twenty-
four plus billion dollars with
the U.S. being
the leading exporter with
nine point eight billion
in gross sales to prevail as
the top arms dealer worldwide.
Please do not chide me,
Joseph. I did not hide my
truly uncanny
ability to know more
about you than expected.
Forgo suspicions.
You’ve not been misled by me.
I’ve elected to
push forward toward completion
to get the satisfaction
I guarantee will
be received with glee by both
you and I, no lie.
Essentially, vitally,
peace must increase to decrease
war before A I
and O I advance into
the O A I squared
pair that will be prepared to
become the S C (O A I)2