Thoughts & Viruses

Thoughts, contagious like viruses
Can infect our vulnerable minds
Become tenacious obsessions
And erode our mental peace;
These thought-like viruses
Can infect individuals, groups
Entire nations, or the whole world
Changing how we think and behave.
01.31.14

Essence & Seen

In human affairs
What remains unspoken
Unwritten, and  unshown
Is the true, critical essence
Concealed behind the scene.
01.30.14

Love & Vacuum

Love
When it departs
Leaves a painful vacuum
Which if not filled by another love
Will echo in our souls for the rest of our lives.
01.29.14

Ideas & Life

Ideas are the offspring
Of mother and father ideas;
They are the begotten children
Of their times and places;
They can only come
When their times come;
They are the instruments of change
Which set the rhymes and rhythms of life.
01.28.14

Truth & Popularity

Truth sayers are not popular figures
Because humanity has an aversion
To crude, unembellished truths.
01.27.14

Reality & Magic

Because we are so constituted
To prefer magic and superstition
To the inclement vicissitudes of reality
We believe those who forcefully advocate
Simple solutions for our complex problems
Offer simple explanations for complex issues
And proclaim to see the unforeseeable future.
01.26.14

Power & Freedom

Corruption rises in proportion
To the power and freedom we attain;
In the powers and freedoms we all seek
Lurk the seeds of abuse and self destruction.
01.25.14