The Uncaused Cause of the First
Cause, for what its worth, birthed Earth
with its first burst of
energized force that brought forth
your special life force
interlaced in D N A
codes that rode cause-effect chains
that contained nuanced
change that finally became
the evolving you.
The life force in you that moves
and transforms your tangible,
corporal matter
wishes to be creative
from an incentive
passed forward by the Uncaused
Cause of the First Cause’s pact
to act upon its
creative imperative
to explode into
dynamic reality
from a long static, passive
existence before
the Big Bang, banged, form which sprang:
artists, musicians,
scientists, dancers, poets
and architects, who too, move
to connect with their
inspiration informing
their application
of a fixed concentration
to transform tangibles by
comprehending and
extending intangible
principles ruling
reality’s cause-effect
chains that can be blamed for all
consequences that
naturally occur to
confer rewards or
decimation of a whole
population quickly or
slowly to erode
the evolutionary
road to more advanced
levels of existence to
enhance the chance to seek new
episodes that will
demand your consciousness to
expand further to
gather increased momentum
toward a pristine harmony.
Remember, Joseph,
you are not the Creator,
but Its progeny
set free to explore more of
what it means to, extremely,
be curiously
driven to choose to use your
free will to instill
your life force’s bequeathed, strong
creative imperative
into your course’s
abrasive events that you
use to circumvent
hopelessness with a deeper
knowledge of the agelessness
of the life force’s
chosen course to be the source
of an expanding,
evolving enlightenment.
The homo sapien mind
will bind organic
tissue to inorganic
computing machines
to issue a new era
of brilliant inventiveness.
[Joseph Ward]
But, Marlene, you know
as I know, that trillions of
dollars fill coffers
of arms manufacturers
that prefer wealth over peace
and that this immense
influx is annually
obtained without luck
as Eisenhower forwards
his warranted warning that
a strong substantial
influence borne by our
vast military
industrial complex would
grow cultural context set
to protect and sow
the seeds for forever wars.
Our species is
emotionally, still, quite
primitive and abusive
but quite progressive
technologically and
quite narrow sighted
economically. So,
how do we program judgements
needed to augment
the impressive, vast data
crunching and speedy
assessing by A I merged
under organoid, brain like
processing machines
to glean the best path to take
to forsake mistakes
culminating in our
assisting self-destruction?
Look at Syria’s
Assad who refused to spare
the rod and punish
his citizens who dare to
share control over what’s fair.
Sarin nerve gas and
cluster bombs rained down terror
on mom and children
to choke off and blow holes in
their calm daily movement to
sever life from friends
and family savored at
somber funerals.
Look, too, at Russia’s Putin
who pays homage to Perun*
* Slavic god of war
to win favor for
the slaughter and war crimes that
shine light on his sick
barbaric soul extolling
slyly the decimation
of population
and land to expand Russia’s
territory to
repopulate quickly with
loyal fans to create firm
footing to negate
any irate citizens.
Worse yet is to see
democracy’s bright beacon
falter to alter the spread
of justice within
humanitarian goals
to never bargain
away individual
freedoms and rights utterly
conveyed at one’s birth
upon Earth. It’s worth noting
that U S of A’s
G W Bush’s act
to invade Iraq smacks of
Hitler’s preemptive
attack with the invasion
of Poland to end
a peaceful coexistence.
Then there is the C I A’s
insistence to use
black sites to abuse captured
enemies with their
enhanced interrogation
that shuns the Eighth Amendment’s
policy against
use of unusual and
cruel punishment.
Our moral ground ain’t sound
anymore and, for sure, there’s
a great need for a
cure for the not so holy
Roman Catholic
Church’s decades anointing
child-sexual-abusive
priests, then appointing
clergy who will ably work
well to cover up
and shirk their adult duty
to always protect children.
[Marlene]
Compounded failures
compiled by leadership
strips away correct
steps that will affect chances
to gain prerequisite skills
necessary to
change cause-effect chains away
from instinct to sync
with a consciousness that will
balance one’s cognition with
mature emotion
as a self-checking feedback
equilibrium
system of awesome talent
for reflective, perceptive
judgements for actions
to circumvent such failures.
Recall: grow or die
and try to see the species
must evolve or sink to be
forever extinct.