A Truth

Youth, we like to be idle.

The far away hopes

Of utopia

The guaranteed 80,000 dollar job

How we just stumble into it one day.

We want to sit, and make money

And comfortably eat and squelch

And sow our seed into every heifer.

 

Then, by the age of twenty-seven

We begin to see the Earth is flat.

We see, “I am well fed.

“My roast Pork is delicious

“And I can go to the market

“And get it whenever I want.”

“I have a house over my head.

“I have family members I love.

“My dog is nice.

“I might not get as much sex as I wanted…

“Really none at all because I’m not married…

“But, there isn’t anything so unreasonable

“That needs to be changed.”

 

Then, some high minded intellectual

Gets elected to office, and changes something.

“I was treated nice at the doctor’s.

“Now I’m treated badly.

“I was treated reasonably

“Now I’m treated unreasonable.”

The reformer had never grown out of youth.

They had never seen the great benefits of the system

They wanted to destroy.

They, unthankfully

Want to change something.

 

And frankly, any conservative knows

There are little things that need changed.

Perhaps criminal records ought to be done away with.

Perhaps people should get free healthcare.

But, nothing so radical as being taken care of…

As a youth is naturally disposed to this mindset

When they see that their only lifeline is their mother and father.

They cannot conceive, at that age

That someone other than a parent can take care of them.

At about age 30…

If you’re spiritually mature…

You realize that it is possible.

Maybe perhaps not for you…

Or, maybe there are other problems

That you understand are not true for everyone else.

 

Silently, you meditate on all the silly notions of youth.

Then you realized that the world was barren in your novel;

That was the necessary feat to bring the Utopia you loved.

And it didn’t last long, at that.

Somehow, we all know that as kids.

Perhaps at a certain age, we bite into the Pomegranate

And realize something we couldn’t as a teenager.

But, the most destructive people are those who never grow up.