Within the Leaves
A storm raises in the valley pantomime
Bruised and lowing seeking peace nowhere to find
I rage. I cry. I can’t Survive
If this is life then life must die
Underneath the soil sit seeds of sweet relief
Windswept voices sing of bringing in the sheaves
They’re brave. They’ll fight. They’ll make it right
From sound to light. From dank to bright
Oh fortune’s pythe, it was my call
Now sight’s unveiled and I evolve
Mother Father God start chasing after me
All refracted out yet dwelling in my tree
My brain. My saw. My mind. My law.
I’m resolute to change it all
Heavy now the ground a fertile pregnancy
Called to birth beyond woe, wakened reverie
Asleep the lie. Awake I see.
The skin of man is fallacy
His Lord lives not in lofty breeze
His freedom rests within the leaves
And now I know what I must be
I am. I am. I be. I be.
Question
It is often said that without dark there would be no light and with no trial there would be no triumph. Is this the truth or a cleaver way the necessitate evil?
This is one of those questions that confounds me and intrigues me at the same time. I used to think, Well that's interesting. I suppose there wouldn't be light without darkness. Great! Now we know why bad things happen. It was easy for me to accept that rationale because it made God seem less culpable for creating a work with all the horrible atrocities that exist if he did it because our human minds needed contrast to comprehend calamity and cherish quiescence. (I'm so sorry guys, I couldn't resist the alliteration. It was just right there)
After a time, that rationale stated far too seem hollow. I mean, if God is GOD then he could have made us smarter and while at it nicer to boot. Even if for some reason he couldn't increase our intelligence and aptitude for love, why should we think that a thing could not exist without its polar opposite- at least its opposite as we know it now? At first, one might reason that since all things exist on a spectrum, love requires hate in or for the spectrum to be tangible. However, isn't it possible that if hate did not exist and love did exist then the polar opposite of love might be "like" or at worst"tolerance"? There would still be a spectrum, all be it an attenuated one.
If blue did not exist, red would still be red. We might not have anything to compare it to but it would still exist. Now the breadth of our experience with color might diminish but who is to say that would be a bad things. A thing can't be missed if it was never present in your consciousness. I say all this to say that we do not need all the evil alive in the world to experience the good. Believing otherwise closes the door to a world where everyone lives in harmony. That is the world I want to see. If we can accept a world as discordant as ours appears to be at the moment, I see no reason why we cannot envision and actualize one that is harmonious. That is the goal, the mark and the prize- at least it should be.
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