POST: JUSTIFICATION

Now with this frail, this faithless, feckless prayer,
as bogus as any barker could air.
In this posing, this paltry assertion.
an after the fact agglomeration.
Incongruent and sore to understand,
coerced by Time and Mortality’s hand.
To who it’s addressed, that to is unclear,
too heartless and dry for the mainstream here.
Its prosodies and its rhyme so faltered,
you’d think from the demented and doddered.
Barred, from one’s own wake and funeral pyre,
not let to forget, leave and retire.
So deep in Fate’s debt, in her care and hire,
marred in her grievous and glorious mire.

Where only the Essential is of worth,
being the helmsman of heaven and earth.

Prosody: Style of versification. http://www.dictionary.com. The patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry the patterns of stress and intonation in verse. 

COMMENTARY

Unable to see any value from one’s efforts, disgusted with what one is doing, rationalizing, lacking the flexibility, some say the moral courage, to look again, to redo, to retreat, to rethink, to come back, to reconsider.  As if it were a sin to change one’s mind, burning from eating hot chili peppers, having thought and bought them, when thought to be dulcet fruits.  Unable to admit to oneself, having made a mistake.  So emotionally invested in what one believes is the right and current course of action.  One can’t help but to deepen, compound, distort, make monstrous the other, if not the rationale  for one’s embarking a new on their current course of action, distorting the truth of the matter.  When it may have been better to  rescind or reconsider.

Having made up one’s mind, demonstrating to one’s self, one’s stalwartness, determination, courage in the face of adversity, one’s reliability, making up one’s mind.  Each an admirable quality when needed, each a curse, if not self defeating, when in need of its opposite.  Making up one’s mind, ubiquitous, everywhere in our modern world, throughout history and in our daily affairs.  Responsible a for untold misery, war, calamities everywhere.  Almost always the result of either/or both arrogance and desire.  Desire, the inducement, both the imputes of human progress and a curse given to mankind.

Makin up one’s mind, a function of the ego, the construct, that gives rise to arrogance, desire and over driven self esteem.  Born of self-preservation in the face of adversity.  For better or worst the ego, the guide for almost all of mankind .  The foremost vail and barrier for the seekers of that what beyond the horizon, for a deeper, a more perceptive and  compassionate guide.  Illustrated and embodied foremost in those who think they know, seeing their opinions as knowledge.

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