Odd Ball

31 May 2022

·CuldeSac

I praise you for bringing yourself to my meaning Now as I present you with my hands as I open them To show you what I have managed to capture inside What you will see is your reward beyond my mind Your articulation is what I seek with borrowed time I am ecstatic to unleash what is bubbling up in me What I will say will disturb you at first glance Though you will come to see that you should be Thankful otherwise my message would have been bland It would be useless if it could not shake shoulders Though I want you to take heart for it also comforts See the one could never be much without the other The gist of it is that what imagination might gain Is work forever concluding in a product in vain For if you would give it a solid amount of thought You would come to understand that it is for naught For if everything you want should somehow manifest The world as you know it would turn into pure unrest The self-evidence of causality leads one to fatalism I am myself among those without true freedom of choice By means of choice my train of thought brought me here The contradiction proves to me that there is much more And I believe it is awareness that makes the difference That consciousness is superior to advanced calculations What is troubling is the fact that the lesson is Zen And it is disturbing because it teaches one to value Not only the good but also the wicked in this world Views forced would turn life into a living nightmare As solutions to the problem of human drives and needs Either imagine nothing ever happening or the Almighty

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What are words without understanding and what is understanding without sense?

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