Life's Aperture

Life’s Aperture by Odin Roark Notice the light Or lack thereof How the details Falter in shadow But imprint in light Naiveté thinking suggests We can control light’s fundamental purpose To assist our awakened perception So why… White/reds or shoot-ups To leapfrog over natural time Denigrating nature’s recharge Yet Oh how we think we know better Pop a pill for this Another for that Pound our mood with her Deflate our mood with him On and on the quest to escape Once There was simplicity of understanding When the sun came up We did what we needed to do to survive that day When the sun went down We relaxed our weary bodies Found simple comforts Food Drink Sex Sleep Now That perceptive opening Our aperture of freedom Is being coerced Tempting self-sabotage Dimness informs Alerting deprivation Presenting discovery’s Illumination/Darkness Might it be… The yin and yang of lessons One’s open and closed eyes Has been reduced to manufactured Mind games Biological influences Supernatural brainwashing Infiltrating our sentient power With imprisonment Dreaming can’t flip a switch for enlightenment Nor find solace in darkness For light is light Dark is dark Each dependent on the other As couplet perfection To think about that Is to wonder what higher cosmic intelligence Would do with our evasion Perhaps It’s time to ask Not what our brain can do for us But what we can do for our brain Ironically for some There’s always Florida’s Mega Money jackpot