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She had saved<\/strong>
\nSo much time and money<\/strong>
\nOnly leaving<\/strong>
\nToo much too due<\/strong>
\nA well honed busyness<\/strong>
\nYielding the best of the bust<\/strong>
\nA treasured chest<\/strong>
\nIn hard times aplenty<\/strong>
\nNever the less<\/strong>
\nPredictably taking<\/strong>
\nA rugged helm<\/strong>
\nIn a cagey realm<\/strong>
\nPlotting a cross<\/strong>
\nLives less fortunate<\/strong>
\nTo a steer<\/strong>
\nClearing millions<\/strong>
\nFor leaves of clover<\/strong>
\nAnd first class vocations<\/strong>
\nSuch ruminations milking<\/strong>
\nTo be cowed by no more than won<\/strong>
\nA gingerly bred man<\/strong>
\nRunning as fast as he can<\/strong>
\nFrom what would eat him alive<\/strong>
\nSo telling<\/strong>
\nIn dropping old fox tales<\/strong>
\nAs crossing too<\/strong>
\nThe other side<\/strong>
\nLike a fish out of water<\/strong>
\nOr a scorpion getting a head<\/strong>
\nOf their fabled nature<\/strong>
\nA version of croaking<\/strong>
\nA pare for all time<\/strong>
\nOnly to be left<\/strong>
\nA loan<\/strong>
\nKnow matter<\/strong>
\nWhat shrewed investments<\/strong>
\nAnd generous self-helpings<\/strong>
\nShe found herself<\/strong>
\nA sieve<\/strong>
\nNot the sort she counted on<\/strong>
\nA full colander emptied<\/strong>
\nHer labor saving devices<\/strong>
\nGave birth<\/strong>
\nTo so little<\/strong>
\nA listless family planning<\/strong>
\nOrphaned buy<\/strong>
\nA catalog of unequalled possessions<\/strong>
\nFor shadowing a life<\/strong>
\nReflecting on buy-gone delinquency<\/strong>
\nSo quickly passing<\/strong>
\nIn habiting exquisite coffers<\/strong>
\nNow coffin for discreet recognition<\/strong>
\nMirrorly a pall bearing<\/strong>
\nIn her high tech death bed<\/strong>
\nStubbornly sterile<\/strong>
\nThe best care money can buy<\/strong>
\nAs in firm nursery<\/strong>
\nA weighting her delivery<\/strong>
\nAs an empty car go<\/strong>
\nA body of controvertible evidence condemned<\/strong>
\nAs howl I get through it<\/strong>
\nA void<\/strong>
\nA fading bellow<\/strong>
\nOf such eternal apprehension<\/strong>
\nI’m mortal<\/strong>
\nA rapidly reproaching sunset<\/strong>
\nFallowing the light<\/strong>
\nOh my brightness<\/strong>
\nAnd savvy hews<\/strong>
\nWill never be herd above<\/strong>
\nThis inferno racket<\/strong>
\nOf contempt late<\/strong>
\nEver wandering about the evil won<\/strong>
\nI can’t even<\/strong>
\nHere myself<\/strong>
\nI’d give<\/strong>
\nMy hole life<\/strong>
\nToo take notice<\/strong>
\nOf any body et al<\/strong>
\nLetting out<\/strong>
\nA friendish laugh<\/strong>
\nIn compassing<\/strong>
\nNay gating<\/strong>
\nThe presents of cloved feat<\/strong>
\nThe beast of burden<\/strong>
\nDue another’s work<\/strong>
\nSeeking too earnest<\/strong>
\nFor see<\/strong>
\nForever dwelling<\/strong>
\nWear you can’t take it<\/strong>
\nWith you<\/strong>
\nAll that<\/strong>
\nYou don’t have<\/strong><\/p>\n

This poem is another reflection on the epic choices we make in our lives.\u00a0 The would-be heroine in this poem settles for the heroin of a profitable job and a trophy husband (who eventually dumps her), only to find herself, perhaps too late, with failing health, facing death with a certain emptiness commensurate with her life.\u00a0 Given busyness passing for worthiness, and material wealth passing for success, what passes for life fades into death.<\/p>\n

In this poem, I allude to the fable of the scorpion and the frog<\/a>, which goes so:<\/p>\n

A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion says, “Because if I do, I will die too.” The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp “Why?” Replies the scorpion: “Its my nature…”<\/em><\/p>\n

Most would agree that this cynical tail really stings!\u00a0 Deathly self-destruction reverberates potential destruction to any in the vicinity.\u00a0 Whatever constitutes such an irrational nature is a black hole for any logic or reason; worse yet, it resonates with a primal fear of the unknown (death being the great unknown), the proverbial abyss.\u00a0 As long as we live in the shadow of scorpions, we must confront such deathly fear.\u00a0 Of course, death comes to us all, but the river in which we are crossing over to the other side is denoted “denial” on many life maps.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the highest state a human can attain is to face one’s own death with equanimity, particularly if it involves laying one’s own life down for another.\u00a0 Most of us deal with our fear of death by justifying the death of others to preserve our own life, or ironically, our “way of life.”\u00a0 This is not truly facing death, it’s trading another’s life for your own; thus, postponing your own facing of death.\u00a0 Avoiding death by dealing out death to others is considered eminently rationale by most.\u00a0 Preserving your own life, avoiding your own death, is viewed as a near-absolute value by most.\u00a0 The right to self-defense is considered common sense.\u00a0 Few would assail it.\u00a0 Though some, like Jesus, Gandhi, or Martin Luther King, Jr., would make poor use of it.\u00a0 The right to surrender one’s life for a higher purpose is considered noble, but beyond expectation for common folk.\u00a0 Nonetheless, transcending one’s self is the only death-defying, even deathless, territory to reside within.\u00a0 Inasmuch as humanity resides in the robustness of life, humans must transcend one’s self.\u00a0 Humanists might consider humanity itself as the larger self to serve and in which to participate.\u00a0 Transcendentalists might consider the larger self to transcend humanity, even transcending humanity plus nature. Either way, only through the whole can we find peace.\u00a0 Accepting that life is bigger than us, and bigger than our death, can give us peace — provided that we are a true devotee of life, not death.<\/p>\n

Scorpions, real or perceived, force us to confront our own nature and devotion to life.\u00a0 The proverbial scorpion is perhaps best personified by “terrorists” in present-day America.\u00a0 Terrorists are routinely and conveniently oversimplified to be scorpions.\u00a0 Their nature is portrayed as both intractably irrational and completely predictably self-destructive.\u00a0 In short, subhuman, unable to behave rationally, even in regards to self-preservation.\u00a0 Those scraping the bottom of humanity at least send others to death to protect one’s own version of rationality.\u00a0 We call these folks “generals” or even “Commander-in-Chief.”\u00a0 Labeling that which we feel compelled to kill as subhuman is the only rationale way to preserve our notion of humanity.\u00a0 This shot-full-of-holes rationale is an inhumane shortcut to deal with deathly fear by choosing death, for others<\/p>\n

However, any dehumanization of others is a disproportionate focus or complete fixation on the scorpion nature present in humanity (and every human).\u00a0 The potential<\/em> for manifesting the scorpion nature is part of our nature.\u00a0 The notion of “self” destruction simply rests on our notion of self.\u00a0 If terrorists are not part of humanity, then we are free to kill them without killing part of our “self.” If terrorists are part of humanity, then we are not free to kill them and rationally claim “self” defense, since they are a part of the “self” of humanity.\u00a0 No doubt, some would easily settle for maiming part of humanity, their humanity, to preserve their maimed image of humanity and have a hand in shaping which numerical portion survives the battle.\u00a0 However, life is even larger than humanity, a point that probably has to be conceded by both humanists and transcendentalists.\u00a0 Life does not need humans.\u00a0 Life existed before humans.\u00a0 Life could exist if humans become extinct (probably in grand gestures of “self” preservation).\u00a0 To pay proper homage to life we must choose life as a whole, even if it happens to result in one’s self’s “premature” death (a death brought about by those less than mature).\u00a0 Trusting that the whole of life is more important than our own self creates a harmony that propagates life.\u00a0 Trusting that death is a more expedient way to preserve life is<\/em><\/strong> our scorpion nature!\u00a0 One of the beauties of an ordered universe is that some things predictably follow others.\u00a0 Paying homage to the whole of life brings peace to the piece we are.\u00a0 Bringing death continues to confront us with repeating lessens, that death brings death, and killing others is killing our largest self.<\/p>\n

Most simply put, from a more highly evolved point of view, killing is “self” destructive.\u00a0 The irrationality of killing is<\/em><\/strong> our scorpion nature, a potential actualized when we can only see necessity and are blind to our freedom of choice.\u00a0 Since freedom of choice is a part of human nature that must be manifest for us to be considered human, the denial of this freedom is a denial of our humanity, the death of humanity.\u00a0 It is inhuman to deny that we are free.\u00a0 It is inhumane to deny the freedom of others. Life bids us to more than we merely are.\u00a0 Feel free to choose life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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