Perception

Propaganda preys on the ignorant

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Would it really even matter?

If I were to change my view

Believe the deluded people

Thinking that a lie is true

The answer is self evident

to those who do not want to control our speech

The thought police

Must have a mind control niche

To shape the world around our perception

Is like Plato’s allegory of the cave

If you do this, you must ask

Is it truth that you really crave?

I think we now know why

There was so much political activism

Follow the money see where it goes

Soon the world will see

Just what Elon knows

USAID and the NGO’s

George Soros and son Alex

His wife, Huma Abedine and the Muslim brotherhood bro’s

The people who hate America

Often chant there is an existential threat to democracy

But what they really mean

There is a threat to their bureaucracy

Propaganda preys on the ignorant

It preys on stupidity

If you can’t think for yourself

You may not think clearly and freely

George Orwell‘s book 1984 

“A boot in the face”

Just who will win the information war

Please name the time and place

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DCG

It is not uncommon to misdiagnose our past 

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It’s hard to gain any ground

When you confabulate

So in retrospect

You must question what you reflect and communicate

With every decade we ponder

The pros and cons of the emotional inventory spent

The more we regret

The more we lament

Growing pains are the by-product

Of reason and accountability

The price and the rite of passage

In our maturity

It is not uncommon to misdiagnose our past 

The motivation is not lost

But it is the result

When we find out the cost

The wisdom we seek

Will benefit us if we pay attention

Some memories may mislead 

Unless we have proper retention

Experience and practice

May dispel a memory

If one is in question

In our receptivity 

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DCG

At least I gave it a shot 

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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

What do we learn with a diminishing return?

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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

What do you care to wage?

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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

At least that is what I’ve been told 

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Some people will become a part of your story

Whereas others will not

We may regret the ones we lost

We may regret the ones we  fought

The curious cases, we do not often see

Are those who are a great match

But we failed to recognize them properly

When thinking back we say

“ the one that got away”

When we get out of the way from ourselves

Be that as it may

We miscalculate

We don’t read the room

The mistakes of our ego

Makes us exclaim” I am a buffoon.”

If you reflect

And you take some time

You can iron out the wrinkles of your behavior

Since there are plenty to find

Good reasoning is usually the starch

After we launder the persona we wear

Might even make another spin cycle around 

Before we find the right pair

Our best measure to assess our happiness

Is found in relationships we hold

Proportional to our bonds

At least that is what I’ve been told

RSP

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DCG

Understanding is the payment, perception is the fee 

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I’m receptive to wonder

The Wonderment of our senses

I’m wonderstruck with what I see as beautiful

The beauty from within our own fences

Many are distracted

The essence of what true beauty really is?

To rely only on physical attraction

It’s like holding water with a sieve

How many times?

Will our ego’s deceive?

If we pay attention?

Will we revise what we believe?

To ask, what is beauty?

A question in philosophy

How many people can answer?

How many are left in ambiguity?

Some may learn  the hard way

Some may never learn

Some by example

Some will have to wait their turn

The knowledge we acquire

Cannot express the wonder we feel

It is only in how we live our lives

The wisdom of how we deal

if we look through a lens of falsehoods

How will the world appear to be?

Another fun house mirror?

Is that what we will see?

Distortion can come from dirty lenses

Distortion can come from unchecked ideology

How often do we clean the lens?

How often do we test our reality?

It must certainly be a gift

If we can clearly see

The wonder and beauty in life

Understanding is the payment, perception is the fee 

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DCG

Just think how now what you can bring? 

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Woke up from a dream

With other characters I had in my head

But it made more sense

Of my own life instead

Do dreams, permeate language?

If you carefully observe the dream

What will it tell you about yourself? 

Just exactly what will it mean?

Can you see another perception of yourself?

Can you unlock another door?

Can you reveal another view of yourself?

That you have never seen before?

Can you decode this revelation?

Will you be able to remember?

If you dream in January

Will you know it still by December?

If you commit this to memory

Will you develop it summer, fall, winter and spring?

How are you better yourself?

Just think how now what can you bring?

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DCG

There is a battle going on inside us 

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I saw how you looked at me

I saw the expression on your face

You had a happy smile

You were in a happy place

You present to the world, a strong woman

But I can also see 

The vulnerabilities deep within you

On occasion, you have shown to me

To protect ourselves, we guard our feelings

Not always knowing how they will come

I know you’ve felt exploited

Just when will this feeling be done?

Please forgive me

Why is this how I am?

I’m happy when you are happy

Maybe I am a sacrificial lamb?

There is a battle going on inside us

Each of us fighting to be free

Free from past emotional injuries

If you are in between two conflicting emotions

Then I think you would agree

Take a step back for a moment

Will you allow me to share what I see?

What will it take for me to show you?

And so the chant, what will it be? What will it be? What will it be?

RSP

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DCG

The unexpected delight of what you perceive 

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The feeling of Christmas morning

The anticipation to give and to receive

The warmth that grows in our hearts

Compels us to share what we believe

Not unlike the child

The gifts you find and recieve

The blessing of meeting a special someone

The unexpected delight of what you perceive

We all want to share this newfound feeling

We all want to relish the what can be

The heart is filled with emotion

Why must we keep this to ourselves so silently?

How deep will this path take us?

How much are we willing to see?

A heart that is for the taking 

When will we give our key?

To start a new chapter in our life

We must first turn the page from the last

The thrill of seeing a new future

Sometimes means we must forgive the past

RSP

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DCG