civilization

It is only I who must live in my skin

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So many people

Go along to get along

Do they understand the implication?

Do they have a sense of wrong?

The social dynamic

Dead poets society

The boys walking in a circle

The axiom of propriety

If you are raised by the morally impoverished

And you see this first hand

You may question the world around you

To help you understand

Not all searches

Will provide the answers you seek

Yet only the prudent

Will provide the best critique

The complexities of human relationships

One ethic may not fit all

Only the deepest thinkers

Are likely to make this call

My individual journey

Is a personal relationship within

Tested relentlessly throughput my life

It is only I who must live in my skin

…

DCG

The many ways we lie

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Confabulation, miscalculation

In deceit we deceive

In the confidence man’s scheme

If gullible we believe

Distraction, retraction, hyperbole, guile

Dishonesty, distortion, evasion in exile

Falsehood, fiction, falsify, fib

Fraudulence, forgery, fabrication, fake

Just how many lies in this life will we make?

The many ways we lie

Countless exchanges

How many of us?

Should make some changes?

…

DCG

How will you decide?

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When you lie to the people

The public trust now in debate

The more you lie

The more we investigate

Some people will follow

Some people will lead

How will you decide?

On what you will believe?

If you can’t trust what they say

See how they act and see what they do

With every additional lie

You hold the burden for what is true

Fool me once shame on you

Fool me twice shame on me

Develop a better judgement

To determine what you see

…

DCG

If only in the shadow of clarity

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The mind will create

A fiction, a myth, a way to explain

To decipher a reality

That we wish to retain

We have limited ability

The flaws of our reason have surely been told

The errors of our thinking throughout our history

There is much to behold

Some ideas act as a placebo

It makes you feel better if you believe

Yet it remains untrue

It is you that you deceive

Reality is not a subject

That we can all agree

Whether it be ethics

Or whether it be epistemology

The search for a universal

The search of a collectivity

May not ever be realized

If only in the shadow of clarity

Common sense is not common

Our logic will often betray

Our better sense of judgement

A logical argument in decay

The political academics

Argue over political philosophy

This is precisely why the constitution was born

To stifle any attempt with tyranny

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DCG

The solution of humanity

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I’ve thought quite a lot about myself

And the path I am on

The struggles I manage

When will this ugly duckling become a swan?

I’ve studied human behavior

And the history of philosophy

Influenced by the world religions

Looking for a perfecting ideology

I look for solace

To ease my mind

When thinking too much

On things of the troubling kind

There is strength in your weakness

Knowing sometimes you must bend

Like a reed in the wind

Or when we make amends

The problem of wisdom

We do not practice what we preach

Sometimes it is not in our grasp

And outside our reach

The power of forgiveness

The solution of humanity

A way to spare ourselves

And a way to keep our sanity

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Post realization lament

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Why must we torture ourselves?

With guilt and shame?

The miracle of forgiveness

It is our upadana that we must tame

We can bond to our appetites

Or any maladaptive behavior

Be mindful of this truth

Or be mindful of your savior

We have the ability to overcome this suffering

Yet we fail to correctly act

Part of the human condition

Part of a natural fact

We are creatures of habit

Most people operate on the limbic system and react

It’s the higher neo-cortex

We must keep intact

Ancient wisdom or modern psychology

Where do you place your trust?

Which sources are accurate?

Which sources are just?

…

DCG

If we are pure in vision to see

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An afterthought of reflection

Little did I know at the time of this transaction

As my luck would have it

I would be forever compromised in my satisfaction

In many cases of human bondage

Attachment is not always clear

Even more astonishing

We are the architects of our fear

The guardian angel

In our life there can be

Many chances to nullify

If we are pure in vision to see

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DCG

Tell me if you can?

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It keeps my sanity

Seeing a beautiful smile

Keeping a sense of humor

In the madness all the while

Don’t be easily offended

People do stupid things all the time

Even pond scum rises to the top

Just be ready when the yuppies climb

Most of our absurdity

Is found in the reason of man

Anyone have any answers?

Tell me if you can?

…

DCG

Or are we just brutes?

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Rise in the East

Set in the West

The human perspective

In continual unrest

As sure as the the Sun is observed in the sky

The people will debate

And always ask why?

Let me count the ways

Religion and tribal paganism

Had us all in a hold

The newest authority scientism

We do as we are told

Copernicus, Ptolemy and Galileo

Like Da Vinci wrote in a code

Steven Meyer meets Darwin

Which paradigm will implode?

So if we left the Garden

Harnessed knowledge from the fruit

Are we not gods?

Or are we just brutes?

…

DCG

The Human Spirit

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I see examples of what not to become

In people almost every day

Life in my community

There is so much to survey

But one must remember

In the same accord

People can be beautiful

There is much not to be ignored

Cynicism cannot be sustainable

As broken hearts can be mended

For every cynic found

Another optimist is apprehended

The human condition

remains perplexed

Those who may deceive themselves

Those who are vexed

The human spirit

On a path of discovery

Will find an answer

That may lead to recovery

…

DCG