[Donald]
The city-dweller
of our concrete jungle
barters symbolic
coins and paper to gather
resources to support life.
Such economic
abstractions are distractions
from the fact that we
are a parasitical
force within Earth that must be
subdued with renewed
practical regulation
through self-imposed rules
that must protect our host
and will reject our greed
that impedes Nature’s
sustained rhythmic harmony.
A transformation
from death dealing parasites
to harmonious stewards
demands reflection
of the participation
we choose to embrace
with the fabrication of
our praised economics
that fails to perceive
that self-interests ought not
trump the decency
of harmonious caring
over unchecked exploiting.
Implementation
of accountabilities
make true, real standards.
[Kevin]
A difficult lesson learned
that earned me heavy troubles.
Remember the one
shot through the heart that brought death
and dire changes?
It was naught but my improved
marksmanship prowess taught by . . .
[Donald]
my keen expertise.
Kevin is quite capable
to dispense defense
against incorrect action
laced with violent intent,
yet there is deeper
cognizance critical to
perseverance from
malice intent that will end
with the other’s biter death.
It’s easy to view
enemies as evil shrews
but you must breakthrough
the personality cues
to view behavior only.
To demonize souls
is to mistake your role in
ending cruelty.
Abiding Joe’s Honor Coin
moved me to reconsider
not the actor but
the act applied that defied
standards set by law.
Accountability spurs
an investigation that
first must consider
behavior to determine
if the act done runs
counter to legislated
behavior and then to find
the actor to blame
before The Court where he will
claim his chosen plea.
As you can see behaviors
can be angelic or they
can be demonic
but souls are neither. Either
they are ignorant
or they are naïve until
consequences defeat both.
[Kevin]
This understanding,
commanding moral high ground
unbound my grim thoughts
fraught with shame and guilt that found
hatred, while powerful
against enemies,
festers and poisons fated
spirits to erode
into an empty black void
as zombified hominoids
incapable of
flourishing in the warm light.
My plight earned the right
to an everlasting night
in a psychiatric ward
as a reward for
my swift action to pervert
Twisting’s urge to hurt
myself and my lover, Bree.
[Donald]
Compton’s keen instinct perceived
that you were headed
toward conflict with wicked souls
extolled with venom.
[Kevin]
Either way, Hastings would sway
white gowned captors to defer
their angst against me
and set me free as the law
clearly saw my right
to take flight from oppression
and take back the possession
of my life-process
to assess every challenge
that will manage growth.
[Donald]
Talking at length with Crystal
helped reshape my consciousness
that she insists good
and evil are subjective
views that can be skewed
one way or toward the other
depending on the culture.
The future we seek,
as we keep Joe’s coin clearly
in view to enjoin
the pursuit for truth to be
permanently conjoined to
universally
stated precepts from concepts
that will reflect best
the harmony inherent
in sustainalility,
is critically
replete with nonlinear
elements that will
circumvent one’s best intent
to perceive absolute Truth.
But, for my work I’ve
surmised that I can abide
much more easily
correct and incorrect acts
as facts to determine force.
I no longer see
people as good or evil.
So hate dissipates.
[Kevin]
Twisting’s behavior was met
with the right force to offset
his aggressiveness
when deep sleep’s vagueness made us
most vulnerable.
[Marlo]
Kate’s face displaced the joyful
sparkle of her eyes with trace,
somber lines that bind
seriousness to facial
distress and unrest.
[Kevin]
I understand this unplanned
operand may befuddle
your calculations
to employ adaptations
to my past actions.
I grant that you can’t implant
this new news conveniently
into the gentle
personality you thought
I ought to channel
into a saintly, fruitful
harmony, but the events
of my current life
prevents such naive feelings.
Fostering true peace
requires acts that decrease
the incorrect use of force
that coerce weaklings
and gentle folk to submit,
unwillingly split
from core values, to commit
undesired deeds from fear
they’d be made to bleed
physically or suffer
emotionally.
Thanks to Donald, I can now
react to sack lethal acts
against myself or
friends who will always defend
lives that won’t abide
greed and narcissistic pricks
who seek to trick or enslave.
[Donald]
Hey, here comes Robert.
Hello Bob, want to exert
yourself for some fun?
[Bob]
Can’t. I came to alert you
that Crystal wants to pursue
your understanding
of polar opposites and
the grand quest to best
improve social position
through power acquisition.
[Marlo]
Horseshoes were quickly
set efficiently against
the post as all moved
to resume their hosts’ most kind
invitation to shun fun
for presentations
of sober reflections shared
to prevent erred views
of youthful souls who must choose
how to live well to quell woes
from predators’ skills
to foist ills that wound or kill
through voiced or unvoiced
deceits or lies that seep or
creep into naive hearts fraught
with uncertainty
who ought to have family
and good, honest friends
who won’t defend nor accuse
but defuse lies and deceits
that cheat sound judgments.
Crystal and the youthful four
scored their refreshments
but maintained their commitment
to penetrate unknown facts
from a confident,
trustworthy, strait-shooting friend
with questions while
feasting on pie, soft ice-cream
and wild berries to appease
keen bodies and souls
wanting healthy nutrients
upon which to grow.
[Crystal]
Here comes Donald now. Greetings,
my fine fellow explorers.
Sarah wants to know
why all received remittance
for the consequence
of hard work and long toil
that would spoil their slumber
on a Saturday
when other teens play freely
accept for Diane
who seems to be embroiled
in a scheme to withhold cash
for tasks completed.
But first, before we reveal
Diane’s strategy
to seal her future humbly
with informed mercantile zeal,
I would like Donald
to unhobble our sane
but constrained beliefs
concerning inertia and
power dogma that laces
throughout social ties.
[Donald]
Well, I’m just a simple cop
who tries to stop crime
from sliming the sublime, fine
human advances from those
who chose ignorance
over sound enlightenment
or had to dispel
naïveté the hard way
as with Twisting’s poor foray
into Kevin’s home
where cruel consequences groan
with dying men’s moans.
Whatever I learned, I earned
from conversing with Crystal
about inertia
and Robert’s consilience
point of view to skew
physics into human acts
granting interesting facts
that impact my thoughts
about power’s chemistry.
There is symmetry
inherent in opposites.
Negative and positive,
when once they’re added,
ensures and restores the point
of neutrality
or the point of origin
that conveniently leads to
one more common law
in the canons of physics.
For every action
an equal and opposite
reaction exists, but is
often missed when twists
and turns affirm that many
forget what they’ve learned.
To feel the real connection
between inertia, power
and opposite sides,
reside in the most complete
comprehension of
science’s explanation
of illusive energy.
‘The ability
to do work’ is the active
characteristic
that defines all energy,
but, one basic trait, only
frustrates a classic
identification of
what is exactly
its specific uniqueness
that grants classification.
It’s easy for me
to see that energy is,
quite clearly . . . power.
Consider, please, that power
is synergistically
made as Nature’s way
to display the source that works
evolution’s course.
From my perspective, power
is neutrally passive like
a gun in a safe
until a human finger
pulls the quick trigger.
Weapons, like power, will serve
to destroy or to protect.
The ploy one deploys
determines the lessons learned
when motivations,
accurately revealed, seal
the category to which
the event’s story
can be judged as power spent
to grudge enemies
or to protect families.
There is no good or evil
power upon which
to shower praise or distain.
There are but events
in which humans choose to act
tragically or lovely.
[Cole]
Diane’s unpaid work
does not support anything
you purport as true.
[Crystal]
Donald and I discovered
the neutrality of force,
but we needed more
nitty-gritty clarity
concerning power
that will make others cower
from fearful thoughts of demise.
Patience was advised
to reflect more and surmise
power’s vague contours
that oft times is ignored as
insignificant decor.
[Donald]
Power is a force
so it’s neutral to one’s choice
when picking a course
to follow from an invoice
of thoughts voiced internally.
Consequently we
perceived neutrality NOT
to be inherent
in decision-making tasks
which have apparent bias
and prejudicial
tones that will sort all choices
as acceptable
or rejectable so deemed
by events experienced
and by lessons learned
or ignored that underscore
states of consciousness.
[Crystal]
Opposites come into play
in this array of concepts
to offset power’s
inherent neutrality
with appropriate
judgments that prevent bullies
from doing what ill they please.
[Donald]
The yin and the yang,
the dark and the light are NOT
about force but more
about choice of magnitude
to include with the forced choice.
[Sarah]
Why is it “forced” choice?
Choice implies freedom to choose.
If “forced” then we loose.
[Donald]
Granted, we must consider
the bitter truth of Two Sides
of the Same Coin’s creed
that responsibility
is infallibly
decreed as permanently
fused to personal freedom.
[Crystal]
But before we go
chasing that tributary,
bury Cole’s query.