Sowing falsehood visions entrapment needs revision;
So encompassing are the pictures in the windows;
Some may find that it treason:
Blatant sufferings without reasons;
I stand at apartheid;
Without reasoning fermentable judgment borrowed time;
All this comes to mine;
Shall I acquire by;
In whom shall will I rely;
Trapped in the situation pictures on the wall;
Formidable enemy all but to call;
He's here and he's ready to install;
Awaiting the fall;
Pictures in the window genocide
Visions entrapment who's on my side;
I'm in genocide..
2/26/20
Written word by James Edward Lee Sr 2020
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36)
Which, Wisdom / Knowledge?
Man’s lures are his personal achievements, once gained.
His 'existential stance toward life', if maintained.
‘Vanity of vanities’ that depress.
This is where silence ('oblivion') and forgetfulness exist.
The ‘consensus of scholars’ supposition this as ‘weariness of the flesh’.
A ‘disquisition on life that tells us’ “vanity of vanities, all is vanity”.
Idolatry of the material world manifests abandonment in the belief in God.
What a world formed where norm becomes infused with “cruelty, ultimate injustice, frustration, no truth or meaning.”
Where life is without reasoning.
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Inspired by The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd Kindle Edition by Theodore Dalrymple (Author), Kenneth Francis (Author)
The ones we love will fly away,
Nothing here is forever to stay.
The sweetest lives shine bright and short,
Or boats that sail at last to port.
What is life but pain and sorrow?
What moves today to tomorrow?
A thousand choices move through time,
Appear without reasoning or rhyme.
But once or twice a light shines through,
A chink in armor knocked askew.
Revealing to us what is true,
The reason for our sadness new.
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