Catch Yourself

Turn the lens in on your yourself. 

Like the frog trapped in an itinerant salesman's glass box, forced to look at itself from all angles, then sweating profusely from what it sees, only for the excreted fluids be bottled as a cure for all ailments -- we must catch ourselves and yield an antidote to what ails us.

But alas, it is always easier to look away from the sight of your unwanted warts and live your whole life in denial. Worst, it is easy to fall into deception and deny in others what you have denied yourself.

Turn the lens in on your yourself so that you may free yourself just as you free others to do so for themselves.

Fire And Fury

The truth is dishonesty ruins the world. All things will push and pull but evil has no place anywhere.

Some would say we can't handle the truth. But they only say that because they already lied so much they lost track of the simplest things that matter.

I don't believe in wars to keep peace. I don't believe in lies to protect what's true. I don't believe in attempts to keep it together through deception. All lies are created equal and none of it matters.

Keep it simple, and everything will be in order. No need for slights of hand. No need for surveillance. No need for cheap thrills and cheap tricks.

All we need is clean air, clean water, and a clean heart. Yet, when all roads that lead to a sanctuary are blocked, then like a prisoner of war you recite over and over in your mind your most deeply held conviction to keep yourself sane and your spirit intact.

Out In The Open

The battle happens out in the open and only a coward fronts a friendly face while whispering in coded tones behind. Those who cannot fight fairly are always found out because the indelible mark of defeat gives them away time and again. But anything in the shadows are always brought out into light. And time is a comrade in the battle to set true intentions straight. Sincerity always reeks of death.