Certitudes Poems | Examples

Life is full of ambiguities
Nothing under the sun is for certain in this life
In this world, humanity struggles
We’re all searching for meaning, certitudes, and what it means to do right

It's traumatic to ponder our impermanence
Some say our days are written in stone
They tell us there's only one thing to do
Get things right, and to pray for our decrepit soul

For our species, ambiguities need closure
Fantastic stories begin to unfold
We’re promised a savior is coming
Therefore no fear in growing old

The ambiguities in life are crippling 
Certitudes we so desperately need
The quality of our life will be contingent
On managing the uncertainty, not creating our own reality

Uncomfortable with our dialogue
Discombobulated by what you see
It appears the narrative of your childhood
Is challenged by a different philosophy

I speak of eudaimonia
Euthymia - energetic tranquility
To live life in the moment
To love your fate - life will be what it will be

I believe we must develop courage 
Take ownership for all our deeds
Let go of all externals
Our actions will show what we believe

Perhaps Hell is what we create?
When our actions contradict the things we say
Our emotions become irreconcilable
We scapegoat our issues, and pray

I believe liberation occurs by acknowledging
God's beauty exist in the grandness of the unknown
Our salvation lies in acceptance
Peace occurs - when we let our certitudes go 

The truth lies in the uncomfortable
It's just beyond the horizon of what we see
Truth is not having all the answers
The Truth - we’re all part of humanity

So if there's discomfort in the dialogue
If you're thrown off by what you believe
That means we’re making progress
This world is bigger than you and

We awake to a dilemma
We can’t run - we can’t hide
Like many things in life we encounter
No concerns, until others suffer and begin to die

We’re like a child frightened by the darkness
Juxtaposed with certitudes and fear of the unknown
We fervently cling to our Holy books
Ironically, trying to prevent going to the greatest place we could ever know

Anxious thoughts arise about our lifestyle
We make promises to do better - to begin
But just as the fog lifts from the horizon
We all return to our cherished deadly sins

Perhaps there's just no hope?
Humans - we only become aware when there's traumatic pain
There's a total lack of humility
Shrouded in hubris - it's insane

The sun will rise again tomorrow
The darkness will recede with the light
There's another chance - a new beginning
To acknowledge and respect the one true blessing - life

Fear is the evil
Fear captures the soul
Fear intimidates
Fear prevents us from becoming whole

Fear breeds certitudes
Fear perpetuates ignorance and hate
Fear fractures and divides
Fear - I fear we may be too late 

Fear is ironic 
Fear allowed us to flourish and grow
Fear helped us to survive
Fear brought us together - to be strong and be bold

Fear has us here
Fear is responsible for anxiety in our life
Fear has become so irrational 
Fear causes great strife

Fear is what we fear
Fear manifest in our minds
Fear left undiscerned
Fear - could lead to our demise

THE DILEMMA

TO LAUGH is to risk appearing a fool.
TO WEEP is to risk appearing sentimental.
TO REACH OUT FOR ANOTHER is to risk involvement.
TO EXPOSE FEELINGS is to risk rejection.
TO PLACE YOUR DREAMS BEFORE THE CROWD is to risk ridicule.
TO LOVE is to risk not being loved in return.
TO GO FORWARD IN THE FACE OF OVERWHELMING ODDS is to risk failure.
BUT RISKS MUST BE TAKEN BECAUSE THE GREATEST HAZARD IN LIFE IS TO RISK NOTHING.
THE PERSON WHO RISKS NOTHING, DOES NOTHING, HAS NOTHING, IS NOTHING.
ONE MAY AVOID SUFFERING AND SORROW, BUT ONE CANNOT LEARN, FEEL, CHANGE, GROW OR LOVE.
CHAINED BY ONE'S CERTITUDES, ONE IS A SLAVE, HAS FORFEITED FREEDOM.
ONLY A PERSON WHO TAKES RISKS IS FREE.

The burden of awareness
Neurosis of mankind
Conundrum - juxtaposition
Instinctual beast – conscious creature – like a vine intertwined

Evolution
Seeds watered - do grow
Guided by the phylogeny
Tempered – be careful what you sow

Awareness
Uncertainties unfold
The recognition of death
The complexities – certitudes take hold

Credulities
So eager to believe
The truth of the matter
The intellect is deceived

Eternal salvation
Cookie for the mind
Accept where you are
Condemn – you waste precious time

Radical acceptance
There’s liberation in the truth
Instinctual beast – conscious creature
The burden of awareness – it’s up to you

The dark is comforting
Ironically safe and known
Beneath the gloomy clouds we’re convinced there’s not no need to know

Certitudes can flourish
Illusions manifest and grow
Confirming our beliefs
Exposes the truth of our lonely souls

We worship false idols
We are doomed
In this world of arrogance
We’re the truth…yea

Our fake world is all we know
Facts don’t mean **** you know

Our journey in life becomes so sad- so sick- so nothing more

The dark is so comforting
That’s why I sleep well at night
Cause as we draw near to the end of our journey
I hope our desires don’t fade to fright

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Certitudes can flourish
Illusions manifest and grow
Confirming our beliefs
Exposes the truth of our lonely souls

We worship false idols…we are doomed

In a world of arrogance…we’re the truth…yea

We worship false idols…we are doomed

In a world of arrogance…we’re the truth…yea

The dark may provide some comfort
Tragically it can feel safe and well known
Because beneath the gloomy clouds of ignorance and fear
We’re convinced, there’s really no need to truly know

Certitudes majestically flourish
Illusions manifest and begin to take hold
The seeking conformation of our cherished beliefs
Exposes the credulity of our souls

We continue to worship false idols
All the while, vociferously proclaiming truth
In this delusional world of arrogance and biases
Opinions are valid without proof

When our fictitious world is more significant
Than the truth that’s factual and real
Our journey in life becomes sadly contingent
On the way our feelings make us feel

I hope the dark can provides us comfort
Perhaps it allows us to sleep well deep into the night
But as we draw near to the end of our journey
I hope our emotional desires don’t fade to fright

Instincts stored from antiquity
Leather bound books; library in the mind
Beautiful tragic collections and revisions
The conundrum of neurology; conflict presides

Endowed with supreme cognition
Cursed, condemned by the residue of blind drives
Irreconcilable emotional juxtapositions
Humanities ironical demise

Profoundly ignorant, unabashed, and indifferent
Audacious opinions of uninformed certitudes
In the end, passions rule reason
The instinctual beast can’t be subdued

Like Lemmings to a cliff running blindly
Chasing those with no knowledge or esteem
If only one to be the wiser
Perhaps we awake from a really bad dream

Shuffling this scope of limited perceptions; their visions.. 
Crossing her celestial, scintilating skies; deep inside tubular
Chimes lifting amid the breeze to these, tranquil orisons ? Subliminally 
Marked emotions rising in state; bay windows dismissing chains; silvertone's rustic tides
Receding, from time's shores before my eyes; portent clarities bearing a Spirits wings 
To fly beyound their breakwater whirlpools, vortex designs ? Breathtaking 
Inversions encapulating this heart as solipsism flees and the eclipse of but once 
Paradoxic's moon, now utters her revelations touchstone moments ? Beckoning myself 
Aneath certitudes apex in parallel's reasons; these, realms about love's cloistered heavens 
Wherein beauty does, so reside ? Tubular chimes lifting amid the breeze; subliminally marked
Emotions afore bay windows and her silvertones, scintilating skies; bearing, wings to fly....
Beyound His colour splashed canvas of pastels, immortal stardust ? A twenty-first century love song.

Sitting opposite one another atop elateds springtide shore; the moon trickling down 
These beams of light and messaline the ribbon within, her flowing red hair; flames...
Redolent this moment, as bare aneath the stars a thrashing in our heart's; melodies
Crashing their waves while my love she claims; certitudes velvet kisses; silken charm
The magic amid her touch; spellbinding, beating drums and raging waters pounding
Upon ecstasies reef; deep inside lost within her eyes; ecliptic oceans tides; orgasmic
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..."In Beauty's, 'Daisy Chains And Laughs'" *

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Shuffling this scope of limited perceptions their visions

Crossing the celestials scintilating skies; deep inside tubular

Chimes lifting in the breeze to these tranquil orisons

Subliminally marked emotions rising in state; bay windows dismissing chains....

Silvertones rustic tides, receding from the shores before my eyes

Portent clarities bearing a Spirits wings to fly ~

Beyond the breakwater whirlpools vortex designs!?

Breathtaking inversions encapulating this heart as solipsism flees 

And the eclipse of the once paradoxic moon now utters her 

Revelations touchstone moments....

Beckoning myself aneath certitudes apex of parallel reasons these

Realms amid the cloistered heavens wherein, beauty does so reside ~

Tubular chimes lifting in the breeze, subliminally marked emotions afore

Bay windows in silvertones scintilating skies; bearing, wings to fly beyond

The colour splashed canvas of pastels immortal, stardust....

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.."?A 21st Century, 'Love Song!'"..

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