We all do it:
Trade in straw men and red herrings,
Prefer splitting hairs to plain sense,
Misdirect and Confound
Grasp at hypotheticals
When real people hang in the balance.
We all learn
The tenacity of preconception,
How to commit ourselves
To reaching a particular conclusion,
Needing only the right words
To guide the way.
We all get
To where our sense of right leads us,
Regardless of anyone else’s sense of right
Because our “right” is always best
Even if it means turning
In ever narrowing circles
To get there
We all fail
Even when we take great pride
In our maturity, spirituality and impartiality
And whenever we point a finger
At some one else we can be sure
Four are pointing back at us.
Human infants, even caged pro-simians have an innate sense of fairness and democracy. They accomplish this even in their most ego-centered learning cycle. We adults, as we've been programmed to do, go to great lengths to 'beat' that out of our children. Somehow we manage to think of those fingers pointed back at us as acclaim. Wouldn't it be useful if we understood finger-pointing and condemnation as just another addictive behavior, another 'self medication'? Having 'just' written your thoughts shows us your awareness of an essential flaw, and you've written it with skill. Your sense of right spirals ever outward, I think. Well done!
Full of wizardly, alchemy, wisdom and common sense, you have written a classic pointed poem. What do I think of it? I love it. Hope that everyone reads it and understands where they're coming from with their outrageous conclusions.
While Debtors prisons no longer exist, many people continue to be persecuted for crimes related to poverty or inability to repay money owed to municipalities. This practice remains in an injustice that needs to be rectified.
Black white (well sort of pinkish) etcetera, Christian Muslim etcetera, Hetero-Homo-Metro Sexual, Physical, Mental, Ow! Includes all human rights violations I could think of.
For the reasons I describe in this book, the world-wide suffering, death and extinction of humanity is very likely to occur, unless nonviolent and democratically determined radical and revolutionary personal and societal actions and changes are taken
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Bravo!
Ron