If indeed you observe
If and when it’s time to complain
I must speak for myself
And call out my own name
Maybe it’s time to think?
Maybe it’s time to up my game?
A figure of speech
I’ll just make it plain
How do I grow?
How do I sustain?
What is my motivation?
What is my claim?
Am I a skeptic?
Would you think me lame?
How else can I know?
Unless my ego is tame
DCG
Because we can name something
It does not make it de facto reality
So much is already debated
Especially our objectivity
Kant said A Priori
In critique of pure reason
For the absolute empiricist
This would be high treason
Fiction is fiction
No matter how you translate
There are limits to the imangineer
Just how do they speculate?
Pixie dust and fairy tales
Witchcraft and wolves bane
Alchemy and the philosophers stone
How much longer will they remain?
Today some will argue what is a woman?
And that men can have an abortion
Only one generation removed
From psychotic distortion
The problem is not
How many believe?
In twelve angry men
Who were the ones deceived?
Wittgenstein noted
We play language games
We create these problems
Simply by using these names
Many become confused
About the world that they see
How can they be satisfied?
How can they be freed?
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DCG
It’s funny when you remember
Mistakes that you have made
Moments with your past loved ones
As time moves on they usually fade
But sometimes in a dream
The mind will reflect
Reviewing the old memories
You now seem to neglect
Awaking to what is here and now
Can benefit you greatly
Being mindful in the present
We can extinguish “What have you done for me lately?”
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DCG
You cannot bargain with truth
There is no negotiation
Only what is
No sophist pseudo-narration
Too many people are lost in words
Our language begets confusion
The argument now before them
Seduces their conclusion
Chuang Tzu from a butterfly
Awakening from a dream
Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man
What can we really say?
If indeed we can?
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DCG
In childhood we become enamored with fairy tales
As adults we create our own
Still enamored by this fiction we make
Asking the right questions allows the truth to be shown
In misplaced trust
The gullible will fail
Some children learn life lessons
Some adults will simply just wail
Imagination turns corporeal
When fantasy becomes real
The measure of our reality
Is the only hope for an appeal
Human behavior is vexing
We stop looking at what we see
We invent alternate scenarios
Becoming an obedient and deserving trustee
The cynic disposes of reciprocity
The hysterical will lose control
The hedonist is driven by pleasure
For whom will the bell toll?
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DCG
If you tell me your opinion
The first thing I will do
Is consider your past behavior
To interpret this spoken view
There are countless ideas
Put into practice there are only a few
Do you live up to what you purport?
The logic of the evidence is only up to you
Before you rain comment
Deliberating what you think is due
Start first by looking within
Are you consistent in what you think as true?
The mind can distort our experience
On what we may purview
If you argue in moral dialogue
Are you impervious to critical review?
A superior intelect
Will always question what they construe
To live by what they say
Remains to be tested on what will ensue
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DCG
If you take out identity politics
From the Democratic Party of the USA
What doctrines are you left with?
What policies are left that will stay?
Not Critical Race Theory
Not project 1619
Not systemic racism
There is no other policy that can be seen
If you can’t win an argument
Historians will rewrite our history
Turn us against each other
It is only this chaos they want you to see
A party is morally bankrupt
The flawed reasoning of deep decay
How many are willing to ask questions?
It is really not for me to say
Beware the voices in media
Where biased opinion is sold
Up for the highest bidder
Little truth will be told
The youth who adopt this philosophy
Taught by our corrupted teachers of today
Are seduced by the same tribalism
That is leading them all astray
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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
Be thankful for your blessings
It does not matter who you are
The further we distance ourselves from happiness
The less we notice just indeed how far
A captive trance
Will take over our perception
It deceptively steals our senses
A rational mind is now in defection
Too often our hearts and minds stray
Too often we focus on our hurt
Why not rejoice for the positive?
Why do we not avert?
It is not our natural behavior
Therefore I think it is learned
If we put this into practice
Than the court of suffering is now adjourned
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DCG
Many truths and many lies
Are likely to be told
In the eyes of the ignorant
They are unlikely to behold
The filters of our attention
One may often dismiss
As a moment will present itself
That one may surely miss
Think not of our ability
When we lie down to sleep
As the body rests
The mind will often reap
The many opportunities
That we have to sus out
In the eyes of the ignorant
How many are cast about?
There will come a time
That one must decide
How will we go forward?
In which direction will we stride?
If they are present
If they can learn
In the eyes of the ignorant
Only then will they discern
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DCG
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