Yesterday we watched a play called Ragtime, its good, not great, but it was interesting in that its placed in our history about a hundred years ago, at a time when racial and class prejudices and injustices were prevalent. In reality it is unfortunately too relevant at our current time. Its amazing how so much has changed and yet so little has changed in social thought. Are we doomed to be wrapped in the prejudices and injustices of the past in the next hundred years, or will our children, and grandchildren as our legacy find a way toward wisdom, truth and love?
Of Wisdom, Truth and Love
Born to this world with all hope and possibility
Nurtured and developed with love of family
Dependent on all and we grow in passion
Passion for all we need and want and smiles shared
Giving way in time to hope and desire of what’s to be
We determine our way, our path in life and love
Or rather is our path set before us with options here and there
Are the directions and decisions determined by our wisdom
Or are they choices driven by the collective push of society
Does humanity develop a collective wisdom aged and advanced generationally
What be that social fabric that conveys that wisdom – religion, science, art, literature
That fabric wears and tears and requires repair and renewal in time
We connect our inner being and soul to this fabric, this wisdom
It’s easier to find comfort in this all knowing wisdom without reason
When we wander though and test the fabric do we advance or damage
I rather believe that wonderment and open hearts make for wise souls
Worn and torn fabric is obligated our attention and repair
But it is easy to be content with histrionic protections of failed fabric
Learning is a wonderful way to pursue the corners of wisdom for value
Yet to learn along the paths set before us throughout the fabric of humanity
Or better yet to advance learning beyond the fabric and into creation
Our children, our future generations will be opened to a greater wisdom
Our understanding of social fabrics that carry ideas, thoughts and passion
We play a role that is beyond our horizon of sight, beyond our life and love
Our logic and reasons cannot reconcile with the areas of the social fabric at times
Thus pushing us as far as hate of such dullards of humanity that embrace this fabric
We forget that this same fabric is part of our weave too and for many their only comfort
In our mind, logic screams this must change!
We desire to improve and repair as we can in our corner of mankind
Yet the others hold to that blanket with a maniacal unreasoned grip
The truths they hold in their unreasoned grip seem absolute to the believer
The investigator sees these truths to be relative to the perspective of observer
Seeking to uncover that core value and wisdom that drove need for absolutism
These truths then create a prison of absolutism that restricts freedom
Choking life, love and thought from adherents of mismanaged fabric
Yet giving false power and judgmental superiority to the advocators and enforcers
Shall we embrace these challenges to logic as they are encountered
Shall we tolerate what is comfort to others, allow to live and let live
Doesn’t reason drive us to compassionate learning and tolerance of their comfort
We have a responsibility to learn, teach and nurture compassionately
To advance the fabric or to leave it unmolested requires application of wisdom
To act without thought and to base on prejudice is an act against wisdom and love
Freeing our minds and hearts allows passions of imagination beyond constraints
The social fabric of our reasoned soul cannot constrain our imagination
Love like a dove soars easily above the fabric of convention and tradition
As a dove released from the weighted constraints of local monochromatic fabric
We soar above the quilted plane and see the many colors and textures of life
This gift of living perspective allows us to grow in wisdom, love and truth
With wisdom we build a legacy of smiles by bring new worlds to those we influence
We can expand thought and help each other see beauty with perspective
We can point out beauty, point to the moon and sunrise and say appreciate it my friend
With truth we know nothing is more beautiful than Gods gift of this world
We enjoy our star, our support system, and all those that came before
Continually building our society, our language, the arts, and science
With love we know we are entertained and have more time than any before us
We share an obligation to contemplate and investigate our fabric and our legacy
How we share, how we love determines what “legacy” we leave this world
What an interesting subject! Can’t believe you were able to put all those thoughts and ideas in beautiful verses!! Great job!! Chapeau bas !!!
BTW in some cultures, the social fabric feels more like a spider web than a blanket ;-))
Fabrics, come in so many different forms. They are make from different materials. Some cannot blend with others, some can. Fabrics fade and lose their strengths, there color and are reduced to rags are the waste bin when their time is used up. So, are we humans, when used up. What has lived and was warm in life and was able to produce love, feeling and give hugs, kisses and passion is now cold and buried and gone from this world forever. However, humans pass on life thru others in those passions of their life is also passed on and those passions will be watered down as each generation comes and goes and will eventually be forgotten entirely. For the fabric of man is short lived in the span of time. The good news is that our fabric will glow in color, never tarnish or rust and will glow forever because of our belief in God. Can you imagine heaven where the light is so pure? Radiant, bright, always warm, filled with passion and love. A light that shines in and thru you soul, a light that cast no shadow, for it shines thru you. The good fabrics that we sew in our time of earth will shine in our house in heaven forever. This is has been told to us and has been passed on to us from generations to generations and this word has not faded. Tis the fabric of the soul that lives and gives life, forever.
Very good… thank you for excellent thoughts, that fit the legacy message of the poem. “The persistence of our good fabrics that we sew in our time on earth will shine in house of heaven forever”… I like that thought.
Good read on thoughts thru your musings.