Perhaps it is the case
That life here
Is meant to be a tougher adventure
Than you assume it must be—
And that you could and should
Learn more than seems convenient—
And overcome more challenges than
It seems one should have to overcome.
Category Archives: Politics
Plenty and Need
We have plenty of:
- Land to grow enough crops and animals to feed everybody on earth.
- Sunshine to make it grow.
- Water to make it grow.
- Air to make it grow.
- People to do the work that’s required to make it grow.
- Natural resources from which to make clothing and housing for everybody.
Yet, not everybody has adequate food or shelter or clothing.
So, then, what do we need that we don’t have?
Not Many Ever Fully Surrender
Not many ever fully surrender
To letting the truth be the truth.
No, the masses find such promise
In pretending parts of it
To be something other
Than what they are.
While This World Does Have Its Wicked
While this world does have its wicked
With their violence and schemes,
And we watch them pour their darkness
On a thousand righteous dreams,
I Helped Him
False Hope
He is sinister who trades in false hope,
And yet, the world beats a path to his door.
Just watch them.
They cannot get enough of his catnip.
I have seen them walk right around true hope—
The wisdom of the ages—
To get to the false.
They call evil good and good evil,
Intoxicated with the promise of ease,
And mindless that there’ll be Hell to pay later.
Woe to us!
So vulnerable still to this original scheme—
Barely able to manage our minds
And still unwilling to learn the lesson
Of this world.
We could learn to do better,
But there’s always the hope
That we don’t have to.
How blessed are those few
Who have dared to listen.
Why the Drive to “Grow this City”?
Why the drive to “grow this city?”
Is it because it makes us better people? Does it make us more honest or honorable or loving?
No. It’s because it creates a bigger market in which to make money. And while money is a necessity, it is surely not the proper priority in life. Yet it ranks far too high. And so goes the drive to “grow this city”, while you’ll probably never hear of any initiative aimed at growing our character.
It’s the Rare Human
It’s the rare human who decides
That he is unwilling both to
Believe or to assert
Anything that is untrue.
Some Never Really Learn
Shameless
Even when that woman tells the truth,
She’s lying somehow.
It is her raison d’être for now—
Until her bluff is called and
She becomes the roommate of Satan
In that eternal fire,
The existence of which she is not now
Willing to admit.