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Thursday, February 11, 2021

the curse of relative worth


relative worth is a demeaning process,

a myopia of triumph self-accessed,

victimhood self-consciousness priding itself

on the strategic enterprise 

of self as conquerer. 

comparative truth reduced 

to financial stature

is a greased pole 

of socially constructed monkey-dom,

where success is revealed as stature

and audience is the backdrop 

from framing prestige.

the self story and its rise 

to social prominence,

the context becoming a contest 

of pseudo success

is a death walk under the allure 

of media's lively tunes. 

we all learn to speak 

a language of ineptness.

we all need entertainment 

as medicinal on demand,

as a collective, sharing the overt distraction, as their plan.

then why is devastation 

so emotionally transformative

as such a wakeup call 

of human intent in high contrast?

when the common ground has self 

in service to a cause,

we all need group scull training instead 

of jet-sky joyrides.

the self psychology involved 

is so widely different.

no one essentially benefits 

from the show of self as display

but we all harvest from the collective works when applied.

mindsets are a terrible waste 

on personal success

when the methods involved 

diminish the worth of others.

a society has one unrealized soul 

of connectedness

and the journey, yours and mine,

is that realization 

becoming self-evident . . .

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