Desire & Infatuation

Desire can be sustained
Fulfillment, not;
Hope can be sustained
Achievement, not;
Love can be sustained
Infatuation, not.
07.01.13

Old & Good

Growing old is good
When one has had a good life
Because nothing can take that away;
Growing old is also good
When one has had a bad life
Because total relief is on its way.
06.30.13

Thoughts & Viruses

When negative thoughts assail us
We should endure them like viruses
Which cause us to fee sick for a while
Before they are conquered by our immunity.
06.29.13

Love & Beauty

The eyes of love can re-beautify
Our faces and our figures
Which time has robbed
Of their beauty.
06.28.13

Compliments & Hubris

Compliments
Unlaced with flattery
Pass unnoticed
By hubris.
06.27.13

History & Myopia

Nations cannot think
Outside their cultural biases;
This cultural myopia is the reason
Why history repeats itself.
06.26.13

Imperfections & Cheerfullness

Laughing at our imperfections
Begets cheerfulness;
Denying or hiding them
Begets melancholy.
06.25.13

Fools & Prime

We behave like fools
When we refuse to accept
That our prime has already passed.
06.24.13

Traditions & Anachronisms

Traditions
That do not evolve with time
Become burdensome anachronisms.
06.23.13

Legal & Unethical

Using the law unethically
Is taking advantage
Of the law’s vulnerability
To implement legal injustice.
06.22.13

Society & Country

Sick societies make sick countries
As healthy societies make healthy countries;
The health of a country is inseparable
From the health of its people.
06.21.13

Never & Always

Lust never lasts
But love often does;
Youth never lasts
But age often does;
Life never lasts
But death always does.
06.20.13

Honesty & Dishonesty

Government institutions
Cannot differentiate
Honesty from dishonesty;
Treating all suspects as guilty
Is a punitive bureaucratic blunder
Which deflates public’s trust
And harms the country.
06.19.13

Youthful & Youthfulness

The youthful
Don’t appreciate
Their youthfulness
Until they age.
06.18.13

Blind Spots & Truth

Blind spots are universal
Especially for criticisms
Levied against us;
Whoever criticizes us
Is always deemed wrong
Especially when he’s right.
06.17.13

Superstitious & Self-Knowledge

The superstitious
Don’t know that they’re superstitious;
Only the non-superstitious know that they are.
06.16.13

Superstitions & Truth

Truths are always
Trampled down by superstitions
Before they trample superstitions down.
06.15.13

Caring & Dread

Allowing heavy worry, real or imagined
To sink into the caverns of the soul
Provoking visceral feelings
Of existential dread
Is a price we pay
For caring.
06.14.13

Injustice & Human Rights

Punishing the innocent
And protecting the fraudulent
When done in the name of human rights
Are accepted as inevitable injustice
By most free societies
In spite of long-term harms.
06.13.13

Simplicity & Complexity

When societies become hyper-entangled
In their dense webs of laws and regulations
Efficiency, simplicity, and unity are displaced
By complexity, inefficiency, and fragmentation.
06.12.13

Differences & Intellect

Encouraging differences
Promotes intellectual growth
Whereas discouraging them
Invites intellectual decay.
06.11.13

Insult & Goodwill

A deeply felt insult
Whether intended or not
Suspends goodwill.
06.10.13

Torture & Mind

Of all the tortures we endure
Those levied upon us
By our own minds
Are the most devastating.
06.09.13

Animals & Dangerous

Of all the animals
That have ever inhabited
Or currently inhabit planet earth,
The most dangerous are the Homo sapiens.
07.08.13

Privacy & Loneliness

The price of privacy
Is loneliness.
06.07.13

Nature & Justice

Since mother nature is unconcerned with justice
And since we learn all our lessons from life
Why do we always become unsettled
When we are treated unjustly?
06.06.13

Memories & Self

We are our memories;
Would you punish a criminal
Who becomes demented
And loses all recall?
06.05.13

Freedom & Corruption

Freedoms abused
Beget corruption
And corruption
Stifles freedoms.
06.04.13

Private & Collective

Private citizens
Who hold their own welfare
Above that of their country’s
Do more collective harm
Than external enemies.
06.03.13

Enthralled & Free

To accumulate
Is to become enthralled;
To give away is to become free.
06.02.13