Disappointment

Learn to bear the brunt of things graciously,
and rewards will be heaped up on you.
Okay, that’s more-than-likely a lie.

However, should you decide that your burden
ought to be borne with a certain pride,
you’ll find your days pass easier

because with the right state of mind you are
constantly learning to stay at your ease.
Don’t complain. It’s never before

had the soothing effect you think it’s going to
has it? What makes you think it’s going
to suddenly start now? Hope and

shit, my friend. Hope and shit. See which
fills up first. If you can put your five
fingers through it, it’s a gate. I

wish to see things as they really are. None
of your reflections for me good sir. If
I have to choose between seeing

what is there and seeing a shadow? I am
afraid I’ll have to go with there. If I
must choose between a blinding

light of knowledge and the softened glow of
refraction, then I choose to be reminded
about the physicality of my humanity.

Here, in the sanctified sanctuary of the printed word,
I hereby pledge allegiance to the questing toward and
the seeking of that which is what it claims to be, and
to do this by never accepting aught except what is in
full illumination in my eyes and the eye of my mind.