Attention:
All would be
Gurus
(Spoiler Alert)
I don't need
A Guru....
Just the same
How might I
Construct
My
Shortlist?
Well to
Begin with...
If it's
"Your way
or
The highway.."
Well then
The answer
Is
"No way.."
I need to release
Such dogmatic
Thinking
(yours or mine)
You've
Positioned
Yourself
As champion
For one
Of humanity's
"Underdogs"
Now
YOU go about
Your way
Asserting
Your scathing
Self-righteousness
Toward all
You deem
As "not getting it..."
I'd be interested
To know
How you feel
When you consider
That you continue
To fail
Humanity
How you
Attain
Deliverance
From
Fears relating to
Your
Personal irrelevance
You gather
The throngs
With eloquence
And
Retread platitudes
How do
These tenets
Work in your life?
If you have
Come
To embody them
Consistently
How did you
Get there?
If not realized
What does it
Look like
When you
Fail - Absolutely
I can't follow
An
Invisible lead
Don't tell me
Show me
I may have
compassion
For your perceived
"Power"
But
Don't expect me
To bow
To
Your illusion
If you require
My being subordinate
It will
Neither serve
The higher good
For you
Or
I
If
My questions
Threaten to
Destabilize
Your foundation....
I perceive
You've built
Your house
Upon sand...
Don't tell me
To
"Be open"
Show me
Your vulnerability
I'll deny you
The pedestal
Which
May spare you
The fall
Of course
I can't
Do anything
About
Your hoisting
Yourself there
No
I don't
"Need to"
See you fall
I'm aware
Of
My "shortcomings"
I simple
Don't accept
To be true
Your
Self-assessment
And presentation
Of
Infallibility
It is
Useful
For me
To have
Mirrored
That which
Remains
Hidden
From
My own eyes
If instead
You
See fit
To Exploit
What you
Witness
It's
Debatable
Whether you
Serve yourself
But
You certainly
Don't serve
Me!
I can
Acknowledge
The formidability
Of your
Intellectual prowesses
If it affords you
A full night's
Sleep
I'm
Happy for you!
I pray
That it never
Fails you!
In the meantime
Your fortress
Nor its
Altar within
Will offer
Me
Nothing
In the way
Of refuge
Even if
I were born
To possess
Such
Mental acuity
Knowing it
To be
The weaver
Of
Pending catastrophe...
A greater
Intellect
Will only
Conjure
A more
Sophisticated
Saga of fear
I expect
That
You're cosmology/theology
Belief system
Fatalism
Be it
What may....
Would operate
Without
The need
For my
Adherence
To the degree
You require
My enrolment
Would I see
What you
Profess
As being
Flawed
Point
At the folly
Of
The peaks
And valleys
Of my life
As evidential
Of your
Impeccability
And I would
Suggest
You
Attempt
To discredit
The lessons
Inherent
In my
Fall
Who offers
The richer
Perspective
They that
Never once
Stepped
From upon
The "straight & narrow"
Or they
That
Having
Strayed
So entirely
From it's confines
That they lived
In terror
Of the consequences
Or that
Realizing it's merits
Would never live
to see it again?
I seek
An unshakable
Trust
In
A living truth
Within myself
As attractive
As the veneer
Might appear
In any given
Shop window
Most certainly
When
"It" hits the fan
The shopkeeper
Will be
Rendered unavailable
I pray
To anything
That will listen
That
In that moment
I have
Fostered
The tools
Within
To initiate
The extraction
From my
Self-created
Suffering
I wish
The same for
You!
R. O'Neill (Oct. 30, 2018)
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