There are illnesses that behave as if they were cures

[PrinceMyshkin]

There are illnesses
that behave as if they were cures
Enlightenment that results
in the progressive sealing
of the eyes and mind,
conquest that poses as liberation,
war that knows itself as peace.

We live on a strange planet
where pygmies stride around
like giants, and the lowest
are elected to high office.



Jerry Newman © 06Feb08

[Pendragon]

And the highly intelligent
behave themselves like utter fools--
binding those with the illnesses
with chains of stigma; making certain they stay bound

In terms of explaining the cosmos,
they draw dark curtains over the things they do not wish to explain.
that do not fit their desiginated theories,
cold logics and cold equations
that must balance at any sacrifice

That which is simple
they can never grasp nor understand--
nor believe...

[PrinceMyshkin]

That which is complex, on the other hand,
some would reduce to the simple,
compacting the entire universe
into a syllable.

Of stigmas, can there be any worse
than to be labelled homo sapiens
despoiler of the earth, carnivore,
mass murderer?

We each bear our cross,
life.