Why
Do I Keep My Lonely Ways
You ask me why do I keep my lonely
ways.
The nature in me longs to come
out of the convoluted depths,
To reconfigure my life, to enrich
my mind.
I am an element of nature seeking
the grand experience -
But there are an array of forces
fighting the elemental urge.
Heart asks for peace, justice,
and brotherhood;
Mind sees them as fitting architecture
of ideas to live by.
But the world is soaked in greed,
blindness, and ignorance.
It suffocates the grand visions
of mankind;
It sows war, falsehood, strife;
It corrupts pure, natural impulses;
Replacing them with narrow earthly
concerns.
It supplants natural freedom
with material cages;
Poetry with petty survival wisdom.
Another human is a reflection
of existence.
Human relationship is a door
to liberation,
But culture and world have turned
them into functional ties,
Laced by selfishness and insecurity,
A mirror of the inner disorder
and turmoil.
We live in a world of insane
goals;
Of acquisitions, ego, power;
An existence woven in hollow,
tinsel strands;
A life punctuated by mad, pointless
rush.
Success is designed to curb,
not liberate;
Manic economic competition sours
our soul toward the fellow human.
Yet you ask me why do I keep
my lonely ways.
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