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We Never Really Know

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

Might a problem unaddressed be: our inability to listen, to compromise, daunted by ancient fear?

Friday, January 31, 2014


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We Never Really Know
by Odin Roark

Do we ever know
The right from wrong
Others define

Do we ever know
Our own person
That entity trying
So desperately
To just not offend

Oh how delicate

The butterfly kiss
Of passion in repose
Of want and desire
So patient

We

The victim
Of our own diffidence
Wanting fervently
To be all we are
Yet
Hesitant to discover said reality

Do we ever know
The proper way
To say
Do
Be
Devotion

For

In essence
We must always
Be able to express it first
To ourselves

Oh how tremulous
The moment

Give it room
For within such intimacy
Rests the outreach
Unshackled
That passion for life
Bestowing love to all
Who will just accept

We never really know…
For sure





 


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Reviewed by Michael True
Reviewed on February 2, 2014
Second guessing would seem fair if not for the fact that the first guess
is often based on someone else's distorted view of reality. M.True

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on February 1, 2014
I'm not sure where you are going except perhaps you're asking us to not be afraid of intimacy because it is the source of knowing when we don't know for sure.

Ron

Reviewed by Budd Nelson
Reviewed on February 1, 2014
we never really do , do we
budd

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on February 1, 2014
No, we do not ever know for sure, but we are products of our upbringing, the education we receive, our environment. What is right? That which we have been instructed is right, and added to that a deep inner conviction spawned from centuries old beliefs. What is wrong?
Again, the answer to it is an uncomplicated as the reason for what is right, with exceptions we, ourselves make, subject to change over the years. Point in fact, the hooray of same sex marriage. I also believe that we can rail against certain practices, but secretly do, or think favorably about that which we publicly despise. We are, in a nutshell, a very complex entity.

Reviewed on January 31, 2014
At first blush , I read this as do we know who truly cares for us, loves us. And ironically we are most likely to fight and scream with the person who we know would never actually hurt us. Who knows us best and picks us up after we fall.....usually anyway. Super interesting read.


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