Gradual Growth in Living

Simply because you read something doesn't make it true
No matter the source it comes from or whom related it to you
When entertaining ideas for your quiddity think them carefully through
Don't underestimate your own abilities in approving proficient values
Align your perception to mull the concepts presented as exact
Then take the basic structure apart and apply some manner less tact
That brings to different levels of decorum an unbalanced fact
Which could explain more than one thing when you can contact
The various forms and degrees that position their venues front
Upon to build a continuing cycle of pushing down the current
Status quo that holds the standards of producing the redundant
Headline streams and expendable list of the tasteless unwanted
Elements included in every day living that shuns our reasoning
In improving our quality of making our lives more than conjouring
Illusions from others set to possess our daily coming and goings
Gathering perspectives to increase our potential as we're growing
Through out life in word and deed our doings to contend
The processes of reviving, renewing, defining those moments when
We found the part of truth we needed to go forth and begin
Another value or treasured moment in which we could defend
Our own learning upon a time when others gathered in number
To defeat the concepts others created to divide our thinking asunder
As to our beings and purpose and process for which we wondered
About our place in the universe among our sisters and brothers
Of contrasting cultures, of uncommon heritages, from many a distant land
Where they could not see or walk the steps that we did to comprehend
The infinite spaces where friendship is lost because others are taken
To belittling labels of worthless truths where they are often forsaken
For providing knowledge to another no matter how slight the degree
Instead of being allowed the time and pleasures of wondering through liberties
To following ideas as simple as those which improve what we eat
Making ourselves worth the effort of our experience and journeys
Acknowledging the lessons we learned in life as part of who we be
Unlike the internet and telephones that scam us with betrayals
Of exploring bank accounts and information without the need of sells
To provide a falsified volume of content meant to squander the veils
That keep our securities of life and living beyond their teeth and nails
Others who tally their own existence upon how much they can phish
From internet providers and users alike while we all make our wish
To gain some knowledge or watch a program unavailable where we live
Knowing that we will never achieve or come close to their profits
They whittle and chisel our lives down to size befitting their programs
Disturbing the natural dwellings of life with confoundments and mayhem
Meant to demean our character and needs in life to befuddlement
Claiming their ways are better than ours all we need do is use them
How like the popular main stream voices of today's ridiculing themes
To feast upon the livelihoods of the common wealth's dreams
Flushing human values and teachings away like yesterday's schemes
Whilst every day average common people simply wish to see
More like themselves able to define the moments of their lives
Without the over excessive plungers who sell them all the lies
Of what they want or what they need or how they should strive
To give up something meant to keep them safe throughout life
Do not hand over all the knowing that brought you to this place
Do not share with the vultures the truce of you and your faith
Forsake the convenient everyday plans of mortal men as they
Heed not the whoas of their people in order to cast away
From the patience, surety, and resource brought forth to consider
How to grow in times like these the nature of the characters
Of many teachings we can use to keep ourselves from wither
During the moments when we have time to sit still and think clear
Erasing the chatter from our thinking to decide our own path
To achieve the day to day living required as we encompass
The virtues that kept us from the devourers so that they last
Long beyond the now we are living so growth is sure, not fast
Think of the flower put in the soil where a gardener hopes to see
The growing stages that it will go through before it's bloom can be seen
The pulling of weeds, the watering, the turning of soil to free
The nutrients needed from all of the elements that flowers from seed
All of the particles playing its part to nourish and provide
The basic necessities that the seed will need to grow and thrive
Without some damaging bug or worm that takes it's first bite
To eat away the leaves and stems from which the nutrients reside
Ideas build lives, our lives grow and bloom something more than we
Can always comprehend since they took root before our being
The learning and growing and doing our part to improve on what we see
Should not be capsized or over ridden because others have the need
To shave and trim our concepts of propping our own ideas
Into something that could add value to us and them as we live
For not every garden surrounds a mansion or business gated fence
In an industrial park or office space with nothing it can give
To bridge the concepts of the thinkers who can see ahead
In a future where others could learn a better way instead
Of rushing and hurrying round about to bring fast paced change
They recognize the need to have a balance to the range
From where to reap, where to plant, lending time a steady hand
So people like me can grow to see and learn to understand
That not every moment we have should be lived as condemned
To some mortal practice of all cultures exercised by man


Jade Jaspers (c)