Friday, April 10, 2015

HUMAN NATURE IS TO DERIVE JOY FROM JUDGMENT


I WOULD IF I COULD
DINE IN PEACE

Man was meant to eat in peace this life 
but we have come to love 
the taste of our wars and hate, 
what a waste this creation
within our hearts has become. 
Prayers are not like wishes 
when stars fall 
with both dreams and nightmares. 
I do not mourn the murderer fate 
but rather the joy, 
the happiness, 
the revenge comfort 
his guilty verdict creates.
Hold me down, lay the witchcraft slab on my chest, force me to think of it as rest, let me ‘lone until in crushing pain I cry out “I can see, I must agree! Your way is the right, true, and only way for every society.” Having no love for power and no wish to accomplish wealth through another’s slavery; I don’t care so much for your reluctance over my acceptance to be a part of this structure of a society gone blind, if not of eye then of mind.

(C) M Durfee
      4.10.2015

5 comments:

  1. Schaudenfreude (or a similar spelling). Why is that? We do enjoy our judgments -- is it because for perhaps only a moment we are not as guilty as, say, that person over there?

    Pearl

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  2. Sounds like you've been hanging out with tea baggers.

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  3. And we have become slaves sadly until all our debts are paid or remains unpaid ~

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  4. I'm not caring for all the hate and the war mongering. Staying as calm on the island as I can.

    BTW--do you have any idea how Brian Miller is doing? Haven't seen a post from him in a long time. Just checking.

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  5. This is about not so much the verdict or judgment, but the happy reaction to a conviction. It ends nothing, and brings no one back. Restores not a wit of comfort or feeling of safety.

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