Why do you go with this over that?
Why do you enlist where you’re at?
Is it finding happy feelings?
…avoiding awkward dealings?
Is your measure
pain against pleasure,
labor against leisure,
…truth against treasure?
Maybe you’re seeking healing
or just taking whatever’s appealing in the moment.
But the bestowment of “go with the flow” is a blow
to your agency. It’s making what you could be a latency.
You’re the main character of your story.
You seek inner narrative glory –
to be the object of attraction,
to get a reaction.
But in truth, that’s all a distraction
to demoralize your taking right action.
It’s better
to think than to wink,
to self-examine than to enshelf mammon,
to enquire what’s right and wrong than to tire of light and song.
You can’t deny that you shouldn’t be led by a lie.
The only other way is to have truth be your “why.”
So, don’t follow feeling – happy or sad, sappy or mad.
The measure of pleasure and pain doesn’t bring gain.
To weigh leisure against labor doesn’t save your neighbor.
To balance truth with treasure is travesty,
cuz the truthless are ruthless, loving depravity.
It’s so easy to ignore what really matters
and to eat dart-smoked platters –
to talk smatters as chit chatters to get along.
An angel did write your wrong.
That’s right, it’s written!
Only you can right the long
list of crimes you’ve been committin’.
No more flaming darts, repenting in parts,
but with a willing heart, gaze upon the Divine art.
Notice what opens your eyes.
Go with that.
Where are spoken some wise words?
Show up there•at.
What brings understanding, enables self commanding, ensures solid standing?
Become a prudent student in that school –
you’ll have obtained the priceless jewel.
So, why should you do this over that?
An advancer won’t miss the flat answer.
by Trent Wilde
September 2023
More Poetry:
Beyond the Purple Box
Clever Clever
Miss Misinformation and Lady Learning
Temporal Relativity
The Not To Be Attitudes
The Parable of The Two Schools
