POEM: Less Taken Now

It was an eve to remember
The surf was swell
Giving rise to him
Way above his peers
He cried out mightily
“I'm on top of the world!”
Just moments later
Crashing onto the rocks
Baring him
No ill will
Nor give
A lessen too great for won
What remains
Borne by less fêted peers
Less taken now
By swell futures
Rocking on
Before the rising dawn

By accident or design, by great will or , we may find ourselves in epic places. This poem addresses issues of , grandiosity, and . A desire to be above our peers carries inherent . In both humans and the material world at large, there are natural limits. The organic of does not easily support parasitical . Even a parasite must take some care not to kill its host. I view as being right-sized, neither being too big, puffed up, nor being too small, shrinking to 's demands. This poem addresses the puffed up half of the equation. is not mean. Nonetheless, has laws. When nature's laws are broken, such a lawlessness creates rather than . There is risk inherent in . In pushing natural limits, we can reasonably expect push-back. Some might call this . Sometimes it is simply gravity.

To some degree, we must all deal with some form of , if simply the unknown, or even unknowable. requires some space for give and take to thrive. Nonetheless, even gifted surfers of chaos would be better served by respecting grander surges. Living life in requires a and a deep of the danger of extremes. A harmonious life, in contrast to a parasitical life, often demands from us to be “less taken.” This phrases double encompasses both the material world where hoarding of nature's bounty, or its destruction creates imbalance, and the world where our undue attachment to material and originates such imbalance.

Humans seem to have quite peculiar, even unique, role in nature. If we learn and natural laws, we can navigate the world in a nearly infinite number of ways, symbiotically glorifying both nature and the highest human potentials. If we live in ignorance and with natural laws, in essence being parasites, nature may very well take us down, crashing us on the rocks from our heights. There is great in understanding the simple and profound gravity of such situations. There is plenty of room for . Nature is not miserly. Our own and blind grandiosity is the greatest threat to . As so wisely summed up, “There is enough for everyone's need. There is not enough for everyone's .” This is the most basic natural limit that humans face. It deserves the highest .

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