Success & Predators

Anyone successful
Needs to become accomplished
In the art of self defense and be prepared
To defend success against the predation of failure;
As success renders us complacent
So failure foments predators
Of the successful.
11.30.14

Ignorance & Enlightenment

Ignorance is immortal and when deeply rooted
Becomes highly resistant to enlightenment;
Destructive, deadly, and indestructible
It endangers societies and nations
And the only way around it
Is to prevent it…
11.29.14

Expense & Enlightenment

Should we ever consider
Enlightenment expensive
We’ll change our minds
When we recalculate
The societal costs
Of ignorance.
11.28.14

Attitude & Pain

An attitude of gratitude
Dilutes the discontent and pain
Inflicted by distemper and disdain.
11.27.14

Anger & Destruction

Anger
Untempered by wisdom
Rages, and like a wild fire
Destroys indiscriminately
Everything in its path.
11.26.14

Laughter & Details

Laughter
Is the blithe abandon
Of life’s infinite details
That mire us in shallows;
To rise above life’s minutia
Is to laugh at frowns
That diminish life.
11.25.14

Love & Joy

Without feelings
We would be plants;
The king of feelings is love
And the queen of feelings is joy;
Between the open arms of love and joy
Life prospers and climbs to its zenith;
Between the fangs of anger and hate
It bites itself and bleeds to death.
11.24.14