The everyday man and woman 
The salt of the earth
The only question
Do you know your worth?
Even a pillar of the community
Will stumble and lose their way
Just look to our political debates
So many have gone astray
Do not feign virtue
It cannot be given or sold
It must be earned
Not only shown in the church, but also out on the street in the cold
Tribal community can be fickle
Many abundant colloquialisms found
Not rooted in truth
The loss of integrity abound
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DCG
Close my eyes
Bow my head
I am not the center of the universe
I look inward instead
I focus on what is right in front of me
I visualize opportunity
I meditate, I manifest
What will be, will be
Think serendipity
We can influence our reality
Shape our experience
Our outlook on what we see
I always seek to better understand
The consequence of our behavior
The most powerful argument
For having a savior
If it takes a village to raise a child
What does it take to educate an adult?
If you nurture honesty and accountability
Then they will self-correct any other fault?
There are many snakes on the path before us
You will encounter liars and deceit
Be steadfast to the peddlers of manipulation
And remember to always keep the receipt
It’s fair to say
We will be tested and challenged
By the people on the street
Some will destroy our faith with misplaced trust
Yet others will restore our faith when we meet
In any case, I continue my gaze
Looking to connect
To that which I understand
To that which I respect
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DCG
The odds are against me
But I do not accept defeat
The world is getting darker
I still resist retreat
I feel the weight on my shoulders
And this is what I carry around
I tried to conceal this from others
It is very hard to stand my ground
As a man, I know how to provide and protect
Yet my family has gone away
Now I am alone
And I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to stay
If you have a disability
People often say
“Take care of yourself“
As if I’d choose another way
Although stating the obvious
Is better than apathy
I remain centered
And respond thankfully
We reach a point in life
We grasp onto our faith
We pray to overcome
We pray we will be safe
Call me stubborn
Call me a pig-headed man
I’ll extend my middle finger
I only hope you’ll understand
All things considered
My attitude is pretty good
My battle for autonomy
I also hope that’s understood
The struggle in our humanity
No matter which cards we are dealt
Must resolve some form of action
No matter how deeply it is felt
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DCG
When I have guilt
When I have shame
I self sabotage
That’s who I blame
I don’t feel worthy
I don’t feel sane
I self sabotage
That’s where I put my blame
Guilt is from choices I’ve made
Shame is from identifying with inadequacy
My father used to put me down
He put me down so masterfully
Abandonment issues
Little self-esteem
The child inside me
Has a diminishing dream
You see I’ve had difficulty in relationships
I had a difficult childhood
And with my low self-esteem
My cognitive dissonance stood
RSP
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DCG
When the mind is weary
It can become overwhelmed and confused
One must then use a counter balance
Before one can defuse
There is nothing wrong with confusion
If it forces you to think
Consider all sides
And be distinct
Sound mind and sound body
Common sense can balance the equation
Activate your intelligence
And confront the mind-virus invasion
Some of our problems take time to work through
Patience, reflection, and persistence
Is the prescription
In times of unsolved resistance
The Tao resolves conflict with Wei wu Wei
Zen resolves conflict; human suffering as attachment
Hence you cannot grasp and cling to your breath
One must always exhale for detachment
On the other hand
The Confucian is the pragmatist
Resolution is common sense
No need for the iron fist
The American surfer knows
How to escape a riptide
Surrender to the water current
And not to their own pride
The will imposes maladaptive behaviors
And maladaptive thought
When we fail, we say
“At least I gave it a shot”
RSP
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DCG
No matter the disability
The people must navigate, the people must learn
Just how to negotiate
Their diminishing return
If you don’t get caught up in the bitterness
You are more receptive to appreciate
The disabled humbled by limitation
To bargain with reality is to conciliate
The experience of loss
A universal trait
How we reconcile
Determines our fate
A tripartite mind
Plato‘s charioteer
The inertia forces
We commandeer
How we experience the world
Applies to how we observe
Just ask Siddhartha Gautama
What the eightfold path would serve
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DCG
I took a dive off the edge of a Dixie cup
Swam around inside and then I jumped out
Couldn’t find a place to lay down
So I sat and had a pout
Soon after the pouring rain
I wanna ride down the sidewalk gutter in my paper boat
Drifting on the rainwater, watch me sail and float
You might call me crazy
You might call me a fool
But even today physics can’t explain how a bumblebee flies
Knowing this do you still wanna ridicule?
We still don’t know when, why or how the great pyramid of Giza was built
NASA lost all of their telemetry data on our trip to the moon
Might as well have been made of cheese
Why are those who question authority labeled a loon? 
If you take the Covid vaccine
You will never get sick
Was it a vaccine or a bio- weapon?
What will the studies depict? 
The lies will never cease
People on the world stage
They are likely to spin their wicked tales
What do you care to wage?
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DCG
Imagine
The human condition
Our ideas shape our reality
More than you know
Dreamers like John Lennon also think so
The mind will often validate
What it expects to see
A posteriori or a Priori?
Which Kantian epistemology?
The philosophical mechanisms we argue
In the name of humanity
Or is all we need just
Philosophical sobriety?
What happened to common sense?
Dreamer or dictator, utopian, or realist
What will we ponder?
What will be missed?
We are but flawed creatures
Just how shall we choose?
Do we wake up?
Or do we just snooze?
Blood has been spilt on the battlefield
Blood has been spilt on the cross
The war for the soul continues on
Just when will the battle be won or lost?
Men have tried to reason
Throughout all of history
But is the ultimate question that is asked
Only in theology?
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DCG
Eric Swalwell had a honey pot
So did Winnie the Pooh
I don’t know yet who is on the Epstein client list
But you’d probably suspect Tigger too
Thousands of pages withheld by the New York FBI
When will Pam and Kash release the files?
We will soon know why
This document dump declass
Will expose how deep the rabbit hole goes
Linked by many conspiracies together
All the way back to Director Comey the evidence shows
Follow the money
The daily DOGE
Follow the politicians
See the pop-up NGO’s
The criminal politicians
Sneak payments to their families
The public servant millionaires
Prove all of these conspiracies 
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DCG
My father once told me
“All you do is work and then you die“
He did not teach me about love
I don’t know the reason why
I grew up in a modest family
With little money and little love
I educated myself
And prayed to the Lord above
I write about what I think
I write about what I feel
Like a John-Boy Walton
The ethical onion skin is what I peel
The layers I shed before you
My readers will attest
The poems that resonate the most
Are the poems that are the best
This blogs tagline
“Reaching out to the world, one post at a time“
Has something for everyone
If you look, then you will find
The threads of our humanity
Interwoven and intertwined
We share the same biology
We are connected if we are aligned
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DCG
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