LJ Idol 11: Week 3: Everything looks like a nail

 
A Free Verse Essay on Existential self-actualization
or

I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together

Tribalism is an inherent quality of the human condition, so the philosophers say

Us verses Them

The ends will always justify the means and all that 

Love is the basest instinct of human nature and yet is feared

Compassion is the key

And daring to live life before the, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it, ending

 

 

The further you go down the philosophy rabbit hole the more intensely you feel how little it all means

Hiding from our sense of self-awareness 

I am I

But you are you

And every man is an island, and ashamed of their mammalian nature

 

The young witchy punk in me arguing with the skeptical bourgeois elder I’ve started to become

“But if you refuse to expand your practice you’ll only ever have a toy hammer that you insist on knocking on things just because you can…”

(The floor, the arm of the chair, oops not the cat, but gently on your knee…)

 

Synchronous ceremony 

The ritual of lighting a flame in the darkness

Words whispered as beads are counted through fingers

Passing the good herb around a circle bathed in moonlight

Hearts and Hashtags 

 

Change is the only constant
And I, for one, cling to existence

Curiouser and curiouser to see what this next generation brings us

To rise above irrational societal expectations

Feminism is old news now

Because gender is irrelevant 

We’ve broken the binary code

My mind and my heart are an open pathway for communication

But my body is mine alone 

 

And eventually the experience of pounding on every surface will be dulled by it’s repetitive nature

It’s a fools game in the Theatre of the Absurd

Can’t see the forest for the trees, so the mystics say

 

Divinity is just perception  

And we can perceive ourselves free of the matrix

 

If only we believed in Humans