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Synthetic Lockdown
Conceptual fragility; the seducer of worth
Health be thy wisdom or salt of the earth
My essence, asunder; purveyor of faith
Evil seeps under exposing the wraith
Sanctity of division; a studious mile
Friends turned to enemies; rationale is on trial
Ignorance, a plenty. Devotion a must
It leads with red fury. They follow with lust
Upon its heels, they are amorous. They give all of their soul
But it mechanizes them. It gains full control
I ask them to research. I ask how it came
They look at me bleeding, yet feeling no shame
"It is provocative, consuming, life ending," they vow
"On your knees, handmaiden. We must show you how."
Encompassing depth, in breadth, they are one
They count all of the dying, the withered, the done
Rid us, the feigner; truth tellers thin guise
The serpents tongue is liquid and claims to be wise
Will the shareholders sapience of the mostly god-fearing
Master the art of obstacle clearing?
Instead they shamed the individual; chastised the breed
They forced their experiments in the name of spent greed
They forfended cultivation of absolute truth
Kept reality from fact; created lies in the sooth
Inherent madness is eternal; subvert and betray
Over our gravestones, they walk guilty, yet no one will pay
Too many warriors among us, they want but a few
But they cannot surmise just what one man can do
Health be thy wisdom or salt of the earth
My essence, asunder; purveyor of faith
Evil seeps under exposing the wraith
Sanctity of division; a studious mile
Friends turned to enemies; rationale is on trial
Ignorance, a plenty. Devotion a must
It leads with red fury. They follow with lust
Upon its heels, they are amorous. They give all of their soul
But it mechanizes them. It gains full control
I ask them to research. I ask how it came
They look at me bleeding, yet feeling no shame
"It is provocative, consuming, life ending," they vow
"On your knees, handmaiden. We must show you how."
Encompassing depth, in breadth, they are one
They count all of the dying, the withered, the done
Rid us, the feigner; truth tellers thin guise
The serpents tongue is liquid and claims to be wise
Will the shareholders sapience of the mostly god-fearing
Master the art of obstacle clearing?
Instead they shamed the individual; chastised the breed
They forced their experiments in the name of spent greed
They forfended cultivation of absolute truth
Kept reality from fact; created lies in the sooth
Inherent madness is eternal; subvert and betray
Over our gravestones, they walk guilty, yet no one will pay
Too many warriors among us, they want but a few
But they cannot surmise just what one man can do
Published 20th Dec 2022
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20th Dec 2022 10:32pm
I read your profile and how you prefer to rhyme. I prefer a sparse rhyme, for impact, but I found this interesting to contemplate. I think its well rendered, thoughtful and with an emotional mien to its exposition.
20th Dec 2022 11:12pm
Thank you. I appreciate the flow of rhyme. Once you start, it’s hard to revert though I still admire any poem that puts together words in beautiful ways
Anonymous
- Edited 9th Jan 2023 5:54pm
9th Jan 2023 5:47pm
Inherent madness is eternal — Well spoken on your part
I think madness must be such an important part and parcel of consciousness that without it, we wouldn't be here where we are as a species with our conception of sentience. I would go along Julian Jaynes' "bicameral mind theory," myself. Most likely as humanity lifted itself into so-called "higher" conscious thought—with language, as a thing with syntax, speaking to self—it must have required a great deal of what we would consider today to be madness in the self experience of common individuals. It can't have been an easy transition on the mass consciousness. The process of consciousness continues and one presumes continues to expand.
In the Bronze Age, there were legally defined and categorized types of diviners/holy speakers /and what we would consider prophets. By codified law these were types of persons who could be granted audience with the ruler of the state. One of the categories was "raver." A mad person who opens their mouth and outcomes a bunch of raving, lunatic shit. The raving lunatic shit that was coming out of their eyes, countenances, bodies, and mouths, and the consideration of it as "information to be processed" formed part of some very important process in the gathering and accumulation of the civilizations, and the Bronze Age civilizations did what they did, and eventually morphed into other civilizations which continued, through cultural processes and "elastic entropy bands" of historical dynamics, morphing further and eventually came to us.
I think madness must be such an important part and parcel of consciousness that without it, we wouldn't be here where we are as a species with our conception of sentience. I would go along Julian Jaynes' "bicameral mind theory," myself. Most likely as humanity lifted itself into so-called "higher" conscious thought—with language, as a thing with syntax, speaking to self—it must have required a great deal of what we would consider today to be madness in the self experience of common individuals. It can't have been an easy transition on the mass consciousness. The process of consciousness continues and one presumes continues to expand.
In the Bronze Age, there were legally defined and categorized types of diviners/holy speakers /and what we would consider prophets. By codified law these were types of persons who could be granted audience with the ruler of the state. One of the categories was "raver." A mad person who opens their mouth and outcomes a bunch of raving, lunatic shit. The raving lunatic shit that was coming out of their eyes, countenances, bodies, and mouths, and the consideration of it as "information to be processed" formed part of some very important process in the gathering and accumulation of the civilizations, and the Bronze Age civilizations did what they did, and eventually morphed into other civilizations which continued, through cultural processes and "elastic entropy bands" of historical dynamics, morphing further and eventually came to us.
Anonymous
- Edited 9th Jan 2023 11:32pm
9th Jan 2023 11:27pm
I think in the future of today's not too far off tomorrow, spectrum will be seen as occupying a large role in the current consciousness expansion similar to the largeness of the role madness played in prior long ago ones
And i think spirituality is deeply like spectrum too
Autism and
get to know and to meet someone well cared for who has Down's syndrome
And i think spirituality is deeply like spectrum too
Autism and
get to know and to meet someone well cared for who has Down's syndrome
