Sunday, May 31, 2020

Behavior Contradicts Our Values


such unsteadiness as it peaks where insides shiver: the black-blue excuses, those reasons we project, our souls aching injustice. the daughter he loves the mother on battlegrounds or forbidden comfort-fruits. a lion my cave a grave my tenure while a tomb reads something irrelevant. those dear eyes as nothing but analytical while a man can’t fathom those reasons. our brains screaming but ever so calm while wine is too much. so wrong at times so indifferent to humans or such a deliberate attitude. as protecting self that fragile person while forced to be strong. (the curse is experiential it cuts bone where we meet devastation. the fragments of my sanity or the father an alcoholic or the jealous stepdaughter. those inner covenants if but this life where it comes like sirens. such strange values or passing some STD while feeling justified. our warped assessments our cold feelings our callous beauties. as a soul wept, he felt so complete where death seemed his option. a river of sinews a behavior problem while we ponder if mania means bipolar. a flagon for Jesus, or abstinence for John The Baptist, either/or, death was imminent.) if to blush at this, so uncured in you, while a person is too misinformed. our jungle solitude, our discolored perception, where a man searches his integrity. so indicative of illness, such raw behaviors, while held guilty for a genetic alarm. as to kill the cancer patient or to silence the baby’s cry where a migraine means work harder. or slaves found guilty for slavery in a just society while we assert some men, women and children were meant for servitude. the bible at this, those misconstrued scriptures while most become anti-Christianity. the ocean thrown out with the whale, the baby thrown out with the adulterous, or Israel no longer favored for grumbling in the desert. such things distress us or motors are no longer revving while a few people are purely scandalous. the sickness the diseases the possibility a child is estranged. such music as it angers while a man is but his rages. our innocence so vetted, by a five-minute meeting. our organs or pipes or churches (our behaviors!).   

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