oh for the letter of the law

(just a thought)

the letter of the law 

is a false honoring of the future. 

based on a premise 

that is fear generated 

and subsequently motivated. 

bent on determining the now,

based on a superficial account of the past.

that does not delve into source,

but organizes to avoid, 

by the obviousness of presented results.

it is essential and eventually

only bandaids on deeper wounds.

lip-service addressing source of cause,

creating costliness out of fear-generatives.

and not deeply addressing the source

but admonishing the ultimate expression made.

the letter of the law 

is fully dependent upon a definitive self,

as a status worth pursuing as responsible.

punishing that self

does not address the reality of cause deeply enough.

it is as the collective of selves

is confirming a solution that superficially responds

to the occurrences. 

and by description, seeks blame, not deep cause,

whereby a jury may become relevant,

as opposed to a collective of support,

or a sense for the fabric of situational evidence,

or a feel for the sense of the being accused

or crime is then seen, as an individual in effect.

a collective is not crime worthy.

they, the collective, are morally perceived as an army,

as a cause, as a political party,

as a business working towards success,

as a think-tank on a mission,

as a government protecting its status,

or even as a species with its own agenda.

the letter of the law has no future

but seeks to honor the past

by appearing to claim rights to what is to come.

the letter of the law

is mental intelligence outweighing

and overwhelming emotional intelligence,

where the spirit of the law dwells.

the letter of the law

is vulnerable to manipulation by interpretation,

as it applies differently in each case.

by not more deeply sourcing 

the essentialness of cause,

but by application as it affects,

for the benefits of selfism as its results.

to protect as if to ban,

does not address, 

but to protect as if to source, clarify, reconnect,

heal, reclaim, integrate, and create confluence.

no, punitive is as means.

is fear as the medium properly imposed?

the letter of the law has its moments

in which initiation into deeper cause should occur.

logic gives way to learning.

being in the know 

becomes getting a real feel for source of cause,

not just the status of the blame to be measured.

the letter of the law

should be spontaneously evident

as an opportunity to more deeply inquire,

as every act-out leaves levels of evidence,

as some physical, some emotional, 

and some more deeply psychological.

we are all of that mix ongoing.

fear asks for judgment, blame, and resolve.

law is an enactment of that process.

the letter of the law is therefore a form of denial,

as a process of having a conclusion made

and looking the other way as if safely distanced.

the collective is not served by such actions taken.

the letter of the law enforced is divisive.

let's just say,

if an earthquake breaks the law,

causes damages, mayhem, and injury,

what is there to do

with the letter of the law?

blame is such a waste of focus and energy.

each person is an earthquake about to happen.

it just depends on the scale of their action.

all day long the letter of the law is privately broken. 

what social conscience invented the letter of the law

as a means of insularity from connectedness,

as a sense of self over the feel of the collective, 

as an efficiency of living that seeks avoidance,

and as a result, style for unnamed causes not sought?

the letter of the law tethers the future

by an inoperable means of claiming the past.

we don't evolve by claiming what not to do,

when deeper clarity of cause is/was available.

self, and the means of being self

so deny the possibility of evolution to occur.

we are blessed and cursed

with a definitive self as distraction

and the letter of the law

ever evocatively confirming us, as such . . .