September 12
Hypothetical
Is my inability to understand what creates mystery? If I were brighter, swifter, keener, would
life be free of unknown communion? Would
comprehension eliminate revelation?
Would I lose perceptual apprehension by arming myself with knowledge of
forethought? Could I end mysticism
through education? Should I even if I
could?
Sample other people’s assets
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OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
Like my new frames? I ask my sponsor
Who wrote your prescription?
Oh the lenses aren’t new just the frames, I reply.
You want to be seen differently,
but you want to see things the same old way?
My question still stands---
Who wrote you the script for those funhouse
glasses
you have used all your life?
Did it ever occur to you the distortion is ground
into the glass?
Remember some people need you to see things for other
than what they are.
Unhappy families look great if you can’t see them
too clearly.
It’s hard to know what to say to keep the
peace--said Grandma.
She never took off her specs to see there was no
peace to keep.
So I ask you again --The view of the world you
base your choices on
who chose the color you see it through?
You are reading selections from More Sober on the Way to
Sane and Lines From My Life by Sherrie Theriault
