gained and understood
that could and should be applied
to what I survived.
I have some, but not complete,
control of the whole discrete
brand of humankind
that becomes entwined in my
cumbersome attempt
to balance criticism
and self confidence granting
easy acceptance
of wise words preventing self
deception’s poison
from my hinderance to hear
what I fear will adhere to
my reputation
as a force of salvation
for others less than
my aggrandizement of self.
Good friends help the betterment
of my soul’s journey.
I choose who to use as my
tool to defuse pride.
I choose who to use as my
sounding board to absorb my
insecurities
that would please bullies seeking
openings to reek
foul unpleasantness to mess
with the delicate blossoms
of emerging spring
to bring breathtaking beauty
and sweet fragrances
to once barren winter worlds
curled tightly around its core
making sure to keep
vital organs warm to reap
comfort to avert
depression from being cold
on a platform of dazzling
white snow glistening
under pale blue sky sporting
eye piercing sunlight.
To grow holistically,
I know to fight attempts to
enslave my spirit’s
right for fascinating flights.
This is my best choice.
[Donald]
Fascinating flights are not
unbridled passion cradled
in deep desires
to immerse one’s self in steep
vile harsh longings
for lustful satisfactions
belonging to narcissists.
Nature’s never free
from gaffs and calamities,
and we, too, follow
that path of imperfection.
Recognition of that fact
exacts vigilance
of our incompetence
to mend one’s mistakes
and never take for granted
people bonded to assist
fixing errors made
individually and
communally, too.
We, few, are here to protect
and support your imperfect
journey by sharing
the perks from caring others
who bothered to help
us overcome our quirks
and mistakes to remake lives
to thrive much better
from their singular service
to invest in us.
Unfortunately extremes
exist that resist changing
fixed trajectories
of preconceived maladies.
Tornados destroy.
Fierce hurricanes and cyclones
devastate which complicates
humans wishing for
stability from Nature’s
insecurity.
We’ve invented tools that would
fuel our rule to secure
further advancement
from our predicament
of being puny
before awesome natural
forces that exasperate
humanity’s fate.
Yet, not wanting to berate
human potential,
I need to state a glaring
pairing of facts: tornados
aren’t as destructive
as humans who know the truth
but ignore the facts
to explore perfect half-truths
that will depict fraudulent
realities to
deceive the voting public
to see criminals,
fakers and money grabbers
as perfect civil servants.
Best governments rest
on accountability’s
test to arrest those
who oppose law and order.
While it’s absolutely
correct to amply
rehabilitate persons
mired in actions
that frustrate harmonious
social order wired in
our governance
that seeks peaceful transference
of power to rule,
there exists dense ignorance
determined to obfuscate
reality’s truth.
There are those who refuse to
rehabilitate
or are beyond our skill
to alter their ill spawned ways.
These are the people
whose ill will must be restrained
to contain their vain
ambition to rule over
events and everyone void
of remorse of course.
When such a bipedal force
barrels into your
peaceful journey, physics rules
to school you on inertia’s
basic principle
that to cripple a great force
one must enforce a
source of power greater than
the intruding amplitude
of fierce contention.
Kevin rued the day he learned
that awful lesson.
Then, there are those who defend
Iago’s whispered poison.
This villain deceives,
cons, lies and manipulates
to escape his deeds’
just accountability.
These two major arenas
of ignorant acts
are the genres of anguish
intentionally
levied person to person
to banish harmony from
civilization.
Suffering in the world sprouts
out from human acts,
not from disembodied fiends.
What I’ve seen in my travels
are dainty people
trapped in ravines of troubles
unable to climb
out of badly formed routines
seeking a much better life
than their current strife.
The ravines seems to be etched
deeper and deeper
with each stretch traversed making
matters perilously worse.
Unfortunately,
routines begin when children
are young and naive
born to parents of varied
abilities to conceive
the breadth and the depth
of the predicaments they
will have to resolve
to evolve into fervent
pursuers of clarity
of thought and feelings
that will set them free from their
parents’ almighty
decrees of inconsistent
proclamations of their poor
perceptions of key
aspects of The Creator’s
true reality.
Consequently, the effects
of naïveté being
programed to obey
flawed opinions of power
as the dominion
of absolute truth, beckons
the child’s future burden to
reckon with power’s
abuse of truth to maintain
their ordained control.
Errors abound around how
to be in harmony when
premises are based
on unsound assurances.
Earth’s suffering is
the result of incurring
one’s inadequate learning.
[Marlo]
Concerning Tina’s
response to comments made, she
kept private her thoughts
to the onslaught of feelings,
opinions, beliefs and views
exposed by those who
fought similar forces that
sought to wreak abuse.
Nevertheless, Crystal’s use
of this support circle was
cause to call all souls
within their community
to rise to the size
of hidden suffering felt
from real consequences dealt
from ignorance and
numb insensitivity.
Tina agreed with
the decree written for the
DOJ’s need for her deed
to destroy to be
nulled with full compensation.
She signed speechlessly.