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The Dilemma of Light

Showed ‘em how to be,

But they didn’t want to see.

Told ‘em where to look,

But they looked n the wrong book.

Turned tomorrow into today,

But they just could not go that way.

Played them the music of the spheres,

But they wanted to sing songs about their lusts and fears.

Illuminated the dark spaces,

But they turned away their faces.

Gave ‘em water from the Well,

But they did not want it so they fell

Into the drunken revelry of alcoholic hell,

As the beer flowed forth to tell

The story of missing mind

From every skull who drank in kind

The elixirs of death warmed over

As if it were a living lover

To embrace their dying breath,

And slip quietly into the breadth,

Depth, width, and height of Oblivion.

Such is free will, and the choices of fools.

What consciousness could follow such hollow rules?

Should those who strive for freedom,

Give those who don’t their way?

Should those who take a stand

On the Rock of Truth and not the sand

Be tolerant of error, hold back what they understand,

And know what they must say?

If a fool has been warned

But remains a fool still,

One can do not but pity

As they fall further down the hill.

And as the few who knew,

Stand by and mourn,

The loss is the only solution,

So that those who lived in darkness can be reborn

Into the light.