Refuge & Arts

To relive burdensome emotions
To assuage tragedy and grief
To temper harsh realities
We take refuge in the arts.
06.01.13

Virtue & Corruption

When virtue
Loses control
Corruption rules.
05.31.03

Listening & Healing

Compassionate listening
Which is an act of love
Heals via empathy.
05.30.13

Attitude & Life

A kind and cheerful attitude
Is the best revenge against life
And the healthiest message to relay.
05.29.13

Choices & Time

Choosing sides is easy
When we don’t know
That we do not know;
The fact that time proves
Most of our choices wrong
Should cause us to choose
Skepticism over certainty.
05.28.13

Memories & Living

Memories, remembered
Keep the dead alive
In the hearts of the living,
Tethering past to present
And present to future.
05.27.13

Guts & Intellects

Trusting our gut-thoughts is dangerous;
Our guts do not have intellects
With which to think.
05.26.13

Selfishness & Country

Civic selfishness means
Choosing what’s best for us
Even though it’s bad for our country.
05.25.13

Desire & Consequences

Desire
Does not think;
It wants and covets
Regardless of consequences.
05.24.13

Interlocuting & Texting

It took nearly 250,000 years
For Homo sapiens to realize
That they prefer texting
To interlocuting.
05.23.12

Souls & Goods

Those of us who already have enough
But persist in acquiring more
Barter their essential souls
In exchange for nonessential goods.
05.22.13

Tragedy & Humanity

Tragedy knows no boarder;
It collectively unites
All of humanity.
05.21.13

Emotions & Chains

Emotions are like chains
Which tether people together;
It only takes one link to snap
For relationships to break.
05.20.13

Masks & Fear

Fear can don many a mask:
It can masquerade as repulsion, anger
Avoidance, loneliness, melancholy, aversion
Frustration, insecurity, despair, disillusionment…
Every negative emotion is laced with a drop of fear.
05.19.13

Existence & Nature

If no one says
Bad things about you
Then you can not exist;
Human nature always finds
Something bad in what is good
And something good in what is bad.
05.18.13

What & Why

The only reason we blame
So many hapless individuals
For what they have become
Is because society does not
Wish to be held responsible
For why they so became.
05.17.13

Faith & Senses

With faith
We cling to intangibles
Because they give us hope;
With our senses
We mistrust tangibles
Because they betray our hopes.
05.16.13

Worry & Joy

When we survive, we worry about aging;
When we sicken, we worry about surviving;
But when we don’t worry
We’re able to embrace life with joy.
05.15.13

Foreheads & Brains

We do not brand our children’s foreheads
With our ethos and our credos;
We only brand their brains.
05.14.13

Ideas & Knowledge

We are always hungry for ideas
Which support our worldview
And angry at ideas that don’t;
We learn less and less with time
And become more and more outdated
The more we cling to what we think know.
05.13.13

Wanting & Affording

If one can afford to buy anything
But wants nothing
One is rich;
If one can’t afford to buy anything
And still wants nothing
One is happy.
05.12.13

Applause & Audience

Applause is guaranteed
When a speaker says
What his audience
Wishes to hear.
05.11.13

Self-evident & Counter-intuitive

Explaining what is self-evident is easy;
Explaining what is counter-intuitive
Is always a challenge.
05.10.13

Human Nature & Nations

Human nature knows no nationality
Because it adopts the nation of rearing;
Since we all could have been reared elsewhere
We all could have been other nationals.
05.09.13

Corruption & Individual

Corruption of any scale
Begins with the individual
Then spreads to the whole.
05.08.13

Behold & Become

When the young behold the old
They find it impossible to imagine
That they soon will become the old
To be beheld by the young.
05.07.13

Creativity & Isolation

Desires
Are kindled by stimulation
Stimulation is kindled interaction
And interaction requires exiting one’s self;
Isolation is the antithesis of desires and creativity.
05.06.13

Domestication & Subjucation

Domestication
Decreases animals’ abilities
To fend for themselves in nature
And increases their dependence on us;
This is even truer when humans subjugate humans.
05.05.13

Emotion & Age

Emotional surges
Are kindled by youth
And dampened by age.
05.04.13

Anger & Evil

Fear
Stifles potential
And anger stifles fear;
We need our good anger
To defeat frightful evil.
05.03.13

Honest & Cheaters

Honest citizens
Can out scheme cheaters
If they would just apply their skills.
05.02.13