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The Need To Amend Immoral Choices

The Need To Amend Immoral Choices


                              under the soles of everyone's feet 
                              silently surviving
                              thriving living forms amidst darkness 
                              viewed as irrelevant
                              by glorified human cerebellum's ambitions 
                              so apparently abhorring
                              frigid to the gentler and wisest enlightened 
                              essences below ground cognizant


                              why bother with others' needs not part of 
                              man's lust unrelenting?
                              conquerors eroding all pristine abodes 
                              of the Earth's abused beings
                              eager to wear crowns over rotting skulls 
                              perverted in many ways unending 
                              hoarder of stolen blood-stained jewels 
                              the final nails to their aging bloated coffins
  

                              goal to metamorphose as kind creatures 
                              a daunting task achievable
                              the malleability of human perception seem 
                              obvious given the right path taken
                              we are invisible in the realm of the cosmos 
                              accepting wrongs restore and console
                              in desperate times, love bestows a solution 
                              a ray of hope guiding souls to a safer haven










Penned: 04/25/2022
             Lake Worth
             Florida USA

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Timothy Ray

Date: 6/20/2022 8:43:00 AM

thank you for reminding me why i chose the Stoics....a Life Worth Living is not about other than the life you leave in your walk along the path...great lines for thought

Anselmo Boles
Date: 8/22/2022 4:30:00 AM

Thank you, I always appreciate your thoughtful and pithy comments...ab

Sotto Poet

Date: 4/30/2022 12:06:00 PM

Your poem has some excellent reasons. This is excellent advice that we should all embrace. The deluge of devastation will endure for decades, I believe with all my heart!

Anselmo Boles
Date: 5/1/2022 10:23:00 PM

Thanks, Lasaad. I have a real hard time imagining what kind of psychological make up the next generations will comprise of...ab

Gershon Wolf

Date: 4/28/2022 7:04:00 PM

There certainly is a great need for much 'amending' these days! ~ Gershon

Anselmo Boles
Date: 5/1/2022 10:21:00 PM

My sentiments, exactly! ...ab

Gershon Wolf
Date: 4/30/2022 8:21:00 PM

Ha, ha! A whole army of nutcase teachers in the USA is already turning America's kids into an army of woebegone wokesters, their neurons brimming with hatred and fear... I'll be checking out of this rat-race before they're in charge, I hope. :) gw

Anselmo Boles
Date: 4/29/2022 12:54:00 AM

I agree with you. I deeply feel that the onslaught of destruction will continue for generations, but the ones who might endure, will march on and reshape the twisted neurons in the human psyche into new forms. Peace...ab