Relative Observation is Measurement.

It’s been my cumulative experience,
If I’m qualified to use the word
That no one is safe
Everyone is spurred
Into action along lines of self
That can not value others
Beyond basic posturing
Beyond reducing brothers
Into binary analysis
Based on gradations
Of derived, perceived benefit
And minimized complications-

A kind of comparative scaling
Over and against objective measures
Because no one gets off their island
And the value of their treasure

Diminishes in inverse ratio with distance and cost.

To explain the joke:
This is also hypocritical analysis.
Safe is a relational condition.

I was descended
From madness
And unto madness
I may yet descend

Whatever slope
My path may take
I purpose, I resolve
To do no harm
Along the way

As much as it depends on me.

I will try to add to, and not usurp,
People’s natural resources.

I may be a pariah,
But I will not be a parasite.

Bless them,
Not to make them cease
In a way that engorges their sin,
But weave for them true joy and peace.

Give them the best fruits You grow
Union with You,
Grace and love, patience, wisdom,
Help them live true

Whether I’m still around to see,
Bless them for me.

Give them my blessing.

Forgive me.

I have used my words
As torpedoes, to blow apart,
Because no one reads them
And I had murder in my heart,

But I am just as much to blame.
Forgive them, forgive me,
And sponge away the malice
I sowed as poisoned seeds.

Bring healing, bring hope,
Bring restoration.
Weave Your beauty with the threads
Of our failures and limitations

Like You always do.

Forgive us all.
We stand equally condemned
Of not being enough like You
To love in kind, in time, to defend,

Let Your sacrifice defend us all.

Forgive me. Over my plantings
Sow love, whose roots
Grow stronger through hate’s
And strangle its fruit.

Sow love,
Before my failures bear fruit.

You are the same God;
You are One.
What You promise in storm or stillness
Will be done.
Your signature is written in blood;
It does not run.

Forgive me for making my problems
Look bigger than Your promise.