Jeweled Breadcrumb #45 : reason’s restriction
… to insist others be reasonable, I myself will become unreasonable.
i wait watch and wonder why
do people choose that which denies
their drift and dignity?
treats them with hostility?
how do folks goodness conceive
in potentates set to deceive?
eavesdropping i detect
slap-dash passion and suspect
hoping a hero to find
reason side-steps miserable minds
but who am i to insist
reason in others must persist?
so doing i would make of me
kin of far-fetched reality
Breadcrumb
Incredulous, inconceivable, beyond belief. I wrestle with myself, with God. How can this be? How can so many people support what I experience as unreasonable? even evil behavior? Then I catch myself, remembering, to insist others be reasonable, I myself will become unreasonable. This does not give me much comfort, however, by releasing my hold on reason I make room for opposition.
Thank you for reading these words, created by grace and the grit of a real human being. Debra Asis
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