Marriage & Fear

After love and passions die
Marriages are held together by fear;
Fear of adversity, insecurity, shame, change
Fear of the tyranny of obligations and beliefs
And fear of facing the unknown all alone.
09.30.12

Politeness & Humility

Politeness is the epitome of courtesy
Courtesy, the epitome of respect
Respect, the epitome of humility
Humility, the epitome of self-knowledge.
09.29.12

Noise & Disruption

Loud people have no notion
How offensive and disruptive they are
To those listeners trapped within their corral.
09.28.12

Enlightenment & Peace

Enlightening the primitive
Promotes world peace;
Suppressing the primitive
Invites terrorism.
09.27.12

Efficiency & Dictatorship

Democracies
Given enough life
Engender dictatorships
In order to rescue efficiency.
09.26.12

Democracy & Primitiveness

One cannot democratize
Primitive peoples.
09.25.12

Disease & Death

Disease and death
Are the two ambushers
Of unsuspecting humanity.
09.24.12

Sides & Loves

Side loves
Like tree suckers
Should be clipped when young
Lest they become burdensome branches.
09.23.12

Sickness & Nations

A sick population
Breaks its nation.
09.22.12

Memory & Gratitude

How quietly we forget
Those who have paved our way.
09.21.12

External & Internal

People and nations fall
When they have been vanquished
By internal decay rather than by external forces.
09.20.12

Power & Loyalty

Double standards are the norms of human societies;
Corporations are disloyal to their employees
Insurance companies, to their clients
Governments, to their citizens
Patients, to their doctors
And the greater the power
The more egregious the disloyalty.
09.19.12

Morality & Ethics

While morality is dictated by human communities
Ethics are dictated by the human conscience,
Which is God-given, not man-made;
One may circumvent morality by changing communities
But one cannot circumvent the conscience
By relocating or changing alliances.
09.18.12

Decisions & Vision

Most of our decisions would change

If we could foresee the future.

09.17.12

Good & Bad

Some of us are always good
And fewer still are always bad
But most of us are good and bad
Good when they can or should be
Bad when they want or need to be.
09.16.12

Love & Passion

Those who fall in love with so many things
Who are easily excited and surprised
Who dream with younger minds
And feel with frailer hearts
Are the fountains of joy
For the mass of humanity.
09.15.12

Happiness & Recognition

Most of us
Don’t know how happy we are
Until our happiness is taken away from us.
09.14.12

Ball & Damage

In ballgames, teams compete for the one ball
Which is then signed and given away by the winner;
In life we all compete for the one planet
Which is torn and damaged by all.
09.13.12

Passions & Actions

We do not choose our passions
Nor do we choose how to channel them;
Actions and outcomes depend on the balance between
The power of passion and the strength of character
Both of which are given, not chosen.
09.12.12

Good & Bad

The bad are three and the good are three:
The born bad, the reared bad, and the turned bad-
The born good, the reared good, and the turned good-
And to what ever group we end up belonging
Depends more on chance than on effort.
09.11.12

Roses & Thorns

Love has two arms
One holds a bouquet of roses
The other, a bunch of thorny stems;
To the lover, love at times presents the one
At times the other, and at times the two together.
09.10.12

Love & Youth

When one falls in love
One feels new and young
Regardless of how old one is;
Something about love is rejuvenating.
09.09.12

Nature & Prediction

Human nature
In spite of infinite variety
Remains infinitely predictable.
09.08.12

Age & Disgust

Whenever you feel repulsed
By something or someone old
Imagine them vibrant and young
And you’ll find beautiful dignity
In their implacable infirmity.
09.07.12

Know & See

It takes one extra step to see beyond the top;
Decisions based on what we think we know and see
Change when one more question is asked and answered.
09.06.12

Peace & Survival

The survival of species is peace-dependent;
Species that cannot share a peaceful coexistence
Will be replaced by ones that live in natural harmony.
09.05.12

Myths & Beliefs

As myths were once
Yesterday’s deeply held beliefs
So will today’s deeply held beliefs
Become tomorrow’s myths.
09.03.12

Memories & Being

We are only what we remember
And we are reduced to nothing
When we can remember nothing.
09.02.12

Passions & Pursuits

Passions
Our prime movers
Lurk within our genetic codes
Define who we are and what we pursue;
We can obey them or fight them
But we cannot chose them.
09.01.12