The Verb

 “The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but
shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more,
but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and
smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees
but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little,
drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too
little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our
possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and
hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to
life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but
have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer
space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom,
but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but
accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more
computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we
communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small
character, steep profits and shallow relationships.

These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but
broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway
morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything
from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the
showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can
bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share
this insight, or to just hit delete...

Remember, to spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not
going to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks
up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave
your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the
only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most
of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from
deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person might not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.”

 George Carlin

Survival of the shittest

Some survive on the streets

For there is where their power towers,

Some survive with the market

For there is where their scheming flowers,

Some adobe in others wits

For there is where that god fits,

Some just sit and get all the fodder

For there is where comes the power of Order

And then there are those who

look, listen, learn and forget

Because that is mankind's safest bet.

Stencil graffito by Meek - 'Begging for Change'

Change your words... Change your world!

 

Words will hurt and words will heal,

    will hide in owe, will shine in weal.

Words of love or words of hate,

root beneath, what seems as real.

 Inside the dark, sweet words of lust

golden words, yet full of rust.

 You, me and Faith, will make a change,

to save a prayer, for what will last.

Yes, words can change, indeed they change

as we move on, in laughs and tears,

beyond what still, remains unclear 

there lies Hope, to ease the fear.

Let it be words, that'll seal the gate

to royal blood, prescribed as fate.

Let it be words, as stars so clear,

that'll burst our hearts, before it's late.

 C.K.

Believe! That's not what we are meant for...

People of the world... for how much longer are we gonna keep on dreaming?
For how much longer, are we gonna bury our hopes under fake promises and silly questions?
For how much longer, She and He will keep on straying from their One path?
For how much longer, we'll deny the joy and love we are meant to share?
For how much longer, we'll walk divided?
For how much longer, consuming will rule over donating, having sex over loving, taking over giving?
For how much longer, we'll make plans for a life that already has one?
For how much longer, we'll fill our hearts with sins and lies?
For how much longer, we'll keep on staying in the cave, ignoring the holy voices?
For how much longer, we'll be in today's prison?

Plato placed the philosophers in position to exit the cave and return to pass the message of the superior life  we can achieve, to the people inside.
I'd say it is not on the philosophers. It's on everybody!

Break the chains, flee and return pure for your brothers and sisters of the world...
They need you.
Pure.
We all need you!

C.K

Let it be...

Let it be black. Funeral veil, of weep and salvation.

Let it be darkness. Where soul's eyes gain control.

Let it be pain. Deep and persisting, uncured by time.

Let it be cold. Every time the thought tears the mind.

Let it be remorse. For the lost, never to be found.

Let them be lost. Dreams and endless conversations.

Let it be fear. Back to the start again.

Let it be sadness. What could have happened?

Let it be persistance. What can happen? 

Let it be the lesson. Faith's poetic analysis.

Let it be the beginning. The clock's end backwards.

Let it be music. A circle's soundtrack.

Let it be light. Of the only way.

Let it be white. Pure and holy path.
Let her be white.
Let her be fine.

Let her be.

Let us all be.

C.K.

Painting by Petrus Christus -Annunciation