We learn from experience
We learn from dreams
We learn from others
Sometimes these lessons are not what they seem
Forged with reason and emotion
This imprint attaches to our soul
Sometimes they change with the times
Sometimes they’re put out on parole
Attachment to anything
Either pleasure or pain
May not serve us after the fact
And may just be in vain
Memories can last a lifetime
Our ability to deal with them will change
Old wounds can heal
As this is not really that strange
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DCG

Why do we lie?
Is it difficult to tell the truth?
How do we measure in adulthood?
How do we measure up in our youth?
It takes character and courage to be truthful
We must first solve the problem of self deception
Before we can enter a relationship
When we may battle the fear of rejection
in many cases
It will not be clear
The respect we may earn
Over the judgment that we fear
But this is not to say
we should blurt out everything we think
Sometimes we can acknowledge and elude the truth
Along with a wink
In any example there exists
The fail-safe of humanity
The power of forgiveness
The way to keep our sanity
“Exoneration is not for the sole sake of relieving guilt. But for the sake of the soul we do not want to deplete. My reason to forgive.”
DCG
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DCG
Suffering from the emotional abuse
When a young child is not allowed to cry
Wishing if only
His father would simply just Die!
Old wounds run silent and deep
When a memory of the past
Eclipses your present state
Just how long will this disruption last?
What is adversity?
Is it a certainty?
Maybe even a guarantee?
Does it define us by decree?
Deteriorate
Infuriate
Suffocate
Isolate
When indeed will we learn?
My own prison a captive of my own thought
Both the jailer and the inmate
Is this what my life has brought?
Given the stakes
What must we do?
Pardon the offences?
Follow a moral law that is true?
Where do we draw the line?
How do we measure autonomy?
The questions one must ask
To comport their philosophy
“ The swords of time will peirce our skin
It doesn’t hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger watch it grin “
The currency of knowledge is free
What we don’t squander
If we attend
Only then this wisdom we can ponder
Receptivity is crucial
I think the broken-hearted people would agree
A key will open a door
A light will allow us to see
Manifest change by perception
Attachment of pain from a dream
Is much harder to navigate
When it clearly cannot be seen
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DCG
Think you’re giving tough love
Are you dismissive?
Do you pre-judge?
Don’t kick me when I’m down
You act like you know all the answers
And treat me like a clown
You become angry and intolerant
Don’t kick me when I’m down
You think that I am stupid
Not really knowing my pain and suffering
I feel belittled and helpless
As I am not fully functioning
You presume I have normal circumstance
Despite the signs clearly before you
If only you pay attention
Then maybe you would change your view
Don’t attack my ability
Put me on the defense
Don’t trivialize my problem
It only makes it more intense
Even accounting the conversation
Leaves me with a frown
As the memory of this relationship
Kicks me when I’m down
When you feel insignificant
Drowning in troubles all around
Don’t feed the wrong energy
Don’t kick me when I’m down
Don’t preach to me with disapproval
Don’t you dare make a sound
I can’t take any more grief
Don’t kick me on the ground
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DCG
Disconnect from the world
Virtual reality is here
How many minds will it trap?
What do you have to fear?
Living in an alternate environment
The Metaverse provides the escape
Another hit of dopamine
What will we aspire to create?
If we can’t solve problems in the real world
Pretending we can won’t change
Enhancing a romanticized virtual world
Only invites us to estrange
Beware you children of technology
Beware you people of mirth
Do not lose yourselves in frivolity
Reclaim your own self worth
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DCG
Self-Reflection
The razors edge
To better myself
I’ve made this pledge
The search to improve myself
On the lessons of my life lived
Can benefit me
On the perspective that it gives
Yet I’m chasing a ghost
When I dwell on the past
I no longer serve myself
As the cost is vast
You heal from wounds
Not by attaching to the grief
Reliving a memory over and over again
There is no relief
One must move forward
I must create a new me
Build upon a new foundation
On how I intend to be
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DCG
Ask the right questions
Focus on the good
Knowing that you have been wronged
Won’t matter if this is understood
The best way forward
You must first find your stride
Following the affirmative
Let this be your guide
When you allow the cynical voices
To occupy your mind
You squelch any happiness
That you are willing if able to find
Wallow in the mire
Bespattered with wounded pith
If you remain there too long
A potential to overcome becomes myth
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DCG
The most powerful resource in the human condition
Our need to belong, our need for connection
Not unlike the power of Love
Not unlike the power of rejection
In our isolation
We struggle to prevail
In our disconnection
We are more likely to fail
A healthy social construct
Must be available for all
Given the state of humanity
We are destined to occasionally fall
Bruce K Alexander
Studies with Rat Park
Showed me without a doubt
He was right on the mark
So why don’t we hear more about this?
What else will it take?
Make this apart of your life
It just might be for your sake
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DCG
https://www.brucekalexander.com/articles-speeches/rat-park/148-addiction-the-view-from-rat-park
So you haven’t had it so easy
For yourself you had to fend
How do I get over my feelings of abandonment?
As a child I had to pretend
Sometimes it takes a lifetime
For you to work things out
If you never take any action
HD Thoreau’s quiet desperation
May surely come about
The ameliorist must make decisions
An ever changing environment we face
How do we improve our situation?
How do we stop running in place?
The path to reach any piece of mind
The thinkers must make amends with the past
Those who feel deeply must forgive any trauma
And mediate the iconoclast
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DCG
I’ve searched all of my life
To understand and rise above my pain
Studied Psychology and Philosophy
Seems like this pursuit is a never-ending campaign
I’ve made some progress though
I pray not to give up my hope
Some questions will never be answered
So I search for the best way to cope
A thinking persons disposition
May often find the vexation of their emotion
Difficult to separate from
The hurt which we attach to our devotion
The rational and the emotional
Are two very different creatures
Measures must be taken
So that either don’t become our keepers
To find a path
It is best to head down the middle
Much like the Buddha suggests
For us to solve this riddle
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DCG
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