OCEAN OF NOTHINGNESS

OCEAN OF NOTHINGNESS Imagine you own the whole worldLacking not in strength and witWith surpluses all around youBut having nothing out of itYou feel dreadful, deep down In a country, like the one we live inSo blessed and richly endowedWith men and innate resourcesBut finds it hard to make things workWe feel frustrated and want to run away Imagine the enormous work doneBy all religious houses everywhereWith men who claimed to have been savedBut with nothing in their attitudes to showYou consider the commerce in the industry When life is lived to its ultimate endWhether you acquired more than you needWhile others live and die in abject povertyYou have nothing, if your heart knew not GodFor you will experience emptiness beyond words

— t. reflexion, Feb 07, 2010

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Country/Region: NGA

Favorite Poets: Inspired by an article in an old manuscript , It reads:, AXIOMS OF PERFECTION, In the physical order – In the realization of the dream of beauty, In the moral order – In the realization of the dream of love, In the intellectual order – In the realization of dream of poetry, In the spiritual order – In the realization of the dream of the mystics

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t. reflexion

16 years 3 months ago

A second look...

I see your point, maybe I need to inject poetic elements, or rewrite the whole thing, to capture the message. Thank you for this observation and I appreciate your comments. What the scribble attempts to share is the frustration of a jobless man who is not deficient in ability, a nation that has no reason not to be properous and a society, that is not safe in spite of the progress made in religious activities Thus, the source of self must be identified or it has nothing. T.