Pretense & Media

Those who wish to study
The art and science of pretense
Should do time watching the media.
09.01.13

Hearing & Beleiving

Of all the creatures in nature
The one that readily believes
Almost everything it hears
Is the human being.
08.31.13

Nomenclature & Truth

Our nomenclature
Homo sapiens
Is a misnomer;
Given our history
Instead of Wise man
We should be renamed
Foolish man, Homo insipiens.
08.30.13

Power & Decay

The greater the external power
The greater the internal decay;
What undermines great powers
Is greater inner powerlessness.
08.29.13

Abuse & Laws

Those who are most accomplished
At manipulating and abusing our laws
Are the very ones we entrust with our laws.
08.28.13

Affordable & Available

What’s unaffordable is unavailable;
An arrangement too expensive, is not an arrangement
A relationship too expensive, is not a relationship
A treatment too expensive, is not a treatment
A solution too expensive, is not a solution.
08.27.13

Denial & Realities

Denial and disbelief
Of our grim and sad realities
Postpones our pain, but hastens our fall.
08.26.13

Success & Excess

Excess
The prodigal son of success
Like a contagion spreads;
No society or government
Are resistant or immune
To its wasteful decadence.
08.25.13

Opinions & Reception

An opinion voiced
Is an opinion shared;
We owe it to humanity
To express our ideas
Regardless of how   
They might be received.
08.24.13

Opressor & Oppressed

Throughout recorded history
Oppressed peoples become resilient
And return to oppress their oppressors;
For in time, the oppressed grow stronger
And the powerful, grow weaker and decay.
08.23.13

Seesaw & Honesty

Between the rich and poor
Holding the social seesaw
Lies the hinge of honesty.
08.22.13

Money & Means

The promise of big money
Hypnotizes the frail conscience
Allowing it to justify dishonest means
With the hope of bringing about a rich end.
08.21.13

Opinions & Comrehension

Opining with feigned authority
On topics beyond our comprehension
Invites adversity and wasteful conflicts;
Having the courage and integrity
To hold back opinions and say
“We honestly don’t know”
Fosters fruitful debate.
08.20.13

Terrorism & Heroism

Without the ideal of heroism
Most terrorists would be less willing to die
For what they believe to be an honorable cause.
08.19.13

Age & Stage

Celebrate age
As an act on a stage
Were youth, made up as old
Plays the part, and feeling young
Walks off the stage to grand applause.
08.18.13

Ideas & Love

Falling in love with our own ideas
Is detrimental to our intellects;
Searching for evidence
Against our ideas
Keeps our minds open
And our intellects razor sharp.
08.17.13

Fat & Love

Fat is a possessive lover;
Once it finds us
It clings to us
And refuses to let go.
08.16.13

Simplify & Tolerate

The brilliant simplify
And the bright legislate;
The bureaucrats complicate
The powerful misappropriate
And the rich dominate;
The rest of us
Tolerate...
08.15.13

Terrorism & Peace

Terrorism comes of ignorance
As peace comes of enlightenment;
Fighting terrorism with enlightenment
Takes more time but gives better results
Than fighting it with sheer power alone.
08.14.13

Thoughts & Temporary

Thoughts that intrude upon us
When good, should be enjoyed
When bad, should be ignored;
For thoughts, uninvited
Are thoughts, temporary.
08.13.13

Dying & Living

Dying well 
Is as important
As living well;
Many a good life
Has been spoiled
By an ugly death.
08.12.13

Knowledge & Ingnorance

Knowledge 
Is always limited
Whereas ignorance
Is almost always limitless.
08.11.13

Thinking & Humanity

Thinking clearly 
Is not possible for humanity;
How prosperous we would all become
If every one of us could always think clearly.
08.10.13

Deception & Belief

Deception, as a trait, is so integral to our nature
That we can become oblivious to its falsehoods
To the point of believing that its lies are truths
Unaware that the more emphatically we believe
The more transparent we become to all others.
08.08.13

Mindsets & Traps

Mindsets are mental traps 
Which suspend our intellects
In a state of immutable opinion;
Escaping the bonds of our mindsets
Paves the way to intellectual freedom.
08.08.13

Ideas & Love

It is how we feel about certain issues
That determines how we think about them;
That is why the very same issue
Viewed by different factions
Generates dissonant reactions;
Often, our feelings control our thoughts
More than our thoughts control our feelings.
08.07.13

Self & Age

A good exercise in humility
Is to visualize our elderly
When they were young
And visualize ourselves
When we get old.
08.06.13

Simplify & Governments

Because governments 
Are seldom able to simplify
They cause the lives of their citizens
To become more complicated with time.
08.05.13

Freedom & Sensorship

Freedom of speech
Censored by political correctness
Makes dictatorships out of democracies.
08.04.13

Anger & Peace

Many a violent life 
Wasted on anger and hate
Could have been saved
With love and peace.
08.03.13

Wrong & Ethical

Whatever seems right
If it harms our country
May be ethically wrong;
Whatever seems wrong
Even if it helps our country
May be ethically wrong.
08.02.13

Beauty & Self Love

To see ourselves beautiful
Regardless of age or deformity
Is essential for our mental health
Because it’s an indicator of self love
Without which, we can never prosper.
08.01.13