Sweetness Is The Saving Aberration

Not to roll around in penitential salt,
But often I see voices and so
......don’t hear them, rising above
The problem level we’re all down in.

So many of them, it seems, while well-intentioned

.........are nasty with solicitous
..virtue-mongering.
When did basking in the pleasure of superior knowledge

Ever win anyone into the good life?

One survives very distinct impressions of them.
That if one were to learn from them,

That would serve as a counterweight

For their own right appraisal. But
........most folks
Want something they can feel, and not just
Understand—and that is the faculty

They vanish to strengthen and meld with,

A kindness made rational, lit by
An uninitiated lack of self made perishable.

Clichés take root here. Render unto water

The finest kings and queens,
...so they might sleeve
Past the waste-reach of old judgment,

And down they go, solving the labyrinth.

Leaves are the natural invention of this.

I admire leaves because they all look alike
And assert no amount of courage
....doing so.
But even moreso, the geniuses of disposition
...who spy death
and resemble them.