Reality Check

Reality Check 320 ... 22 Apr 96	4/22/96 11:57 AM
relax your grasp of reason
for it is not applicable here
	all things being relative
		save time
	reason is at question here
		within the domain of irrational
you hold tightly to an illusion
	that being stability
an illusion ... a parlour trick ... nothing more
	for there is nothing so uncertain
	as stability
with a mere whim
	fate snatches this away from us
	leaving us naked ... stripped to the bone
		no closer to the true meaning of self
		than the illusion that we are not going to fall
we do fall
	sometimes so insignificantly that we do not see it
	ofttimes it is a long way down
		so far down we fail to see our own rise
		from the ashes of debacle
sensing nothing more than what we allow ourselves to feel
we often cannot find our way around that which is ours
	nor will we own the mere chance that
		if we had only paid more attention to the details
			the path would be smoother
			the future brighter
instead we lapse into mournful reproach of those who choose
	guided by something larger than self
		a path which promises growth
we stagnate
they move beyond us
	until
	perchance in hindsight
		we see our folly
		and allow ourselves to fly free
		from that which we call reason
taking that one chance is the stuff of dreams and legends
	nothing more

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