Awareness & Comfort

Comfort is inversely proportional to awareness
The more aware of humanity’s sorrows
The less comfortable we become;
Our penultimate comfort state is coma
The state of total unawareness just before death.
05.07.11

Rich & Poor

I’ve never met a person
Who was rich in love
And was poor
Nor a person
Who was poor in love
And was rich.
05.06.11

Honesty & Purity

Honesty blossoms out of contentment;
Justification is the spin-doctor of want;
It’s difficult to stay honest when hungry
And hard to remain pure when in need.
05.05.11

Adversity & Attitude

The best defense against adversity
Is an indomitably blithe attitude.
05.04.11

Compassion & Blame

Compassion is incompatible with blame;
When blame rises, compassion falls.
05.03.11

Passion & Reason

When passions rise
Reason shuts her eyes.
05.02.11

Censorship & Opinions

Censorship invites pretense;
The suppression of opinions and beliefs
Considered immoral, blasphemous, or unpatriotic
Drives them underground where they grow unhindered
And return to haunt the censors at a later date.
Allowing unpopular beliefs the right of expression
Invites debate, which promotes mutual understanding
And diffuses aggression before it becomes a tsunami.
05.01.11