The Words of Feelings

 Sweetheart, words flood my mouth

And tumble out as white water rapids,

Uncontrollable, multi-directional, and wild.

My words have no meaning except

As they receive meaning through you.

You bless them, you honor them,

And I am blessed and honored by you.

My words rush to their true source

And are made pacific by your grace.

You take these droplets,

And weave them as cocoons of silk.

As they become beautifully metamorphosed

Into multi-colored satiny raiments

Suitable for the vestments of naked gods.

 

Feelings are viewed through the prism of words

And this spectrum then becomes songs,

Albeit, A playground cacophony

Of multi-timbre sounds.

Again, in your presence, these become

Odes to the joys of each color of the rainbow. 

Magnificats paying homage to virtues

Revealed in your struggles for life.

Disguising your hardships by your zest.

 

These songs shall be captured in a book

With each page being a shining lamp

To reveal the enlightenment one woman

Can promote in the mind of one man.

This sacred hymnal shall be placed

Next to our love-making bed

Which will sing through its springs

And celebrate the songs of O.

Purple passions and ruby reds

Shall shower us from head to foot

As we bathe in the harmony of each other.

Our opus of crescendos and decrescendos

Will symphonize as we synthesize

Our dialectical shared experiences.

 

All this shall be

A paean to thee.

 

Curiousdwk

 

Any rational thinking person will wonder why so many people are voting for Santorum.  The reason is that many people are not interested in voting rationally either because they are unable to grasp the issues rationally and analyze them, or because they just don’t want to.  Just yesterday I heard on voter being interviewed saying she thought Obama was a Muslim, and a man saying that Obama wasn’t qualified to be President because both of his parents were not born in theUnited States.  How do we deal with these idiots who are voting? 

 Instead, these people are voting according to “morals”. And “values”.  Most people have not thought about stating their own personal values, so most people just take the values and morals that are presented to them from a church.  But what about free-thinkers?  (I’m defining a free thinker here as one who is not a slave to a church’s teachings.)  They chafe at the accusations made by many religious zealots that if they don’t get their values from a church or a historical book, that they must not have any values.  So what does a free-thinker do?

A free-thinker should come up with his own values statement.  They should come up with an elevator speech that will state their values in 30 seconds or less.  Then they are prepared to meet the religionists on their own turf.  And win when the religionists claim that it is a battle to be fought.  And they are prepared to discuss politics with people who cannot discuss rationally.  Do you, as a free thinker, have a set of values you can give at a moment’s notice?

I am not saying all free thinkers should take mine, but I would like to share mine with you.  I believe, as a free thinker, that I have the ability and the responsibility to do all that I can to develop as much as I can for all that it means to be human both in myself and others.  That’s it.  I will pit these values against any values that any church wants to throw at me.  (Then the fun begins in defining what it means to be human.)

And with this, I can measure Obama against Santorum, or Newt, or Romney and I now have a reason I can share of why Obama is superior without resorting to the rational reasons.  A big problem I see is that free thinkers and progressives are not rising to the occasion of discussing politics via values and morals but only rationally. 

Santorum’s immoral values are getting media attention each and every day.  Yet Obama’s values are not even being heard.  For those who will vote strictly by values, and not by reason, Santorum and the other moralistic pretenders will get their vote.  We need to be able and we need to be prepared to discuss the alternatives to these charlatans on a level of values and morals.  All it takes is a little reflection and a little preparation.  From all of us free thinkers.