The Limitation of Christ

was that all he is recorded
as going through, and saying to the many,
in the life he led during his three year ministry
seems so unlike the lives that common folk have lived out since.

Such that he can only be identified with
by the faiths that proclaim him
through which he cannot be seen.

Off The Scale?

I was taught to share what I had as I grew up,
though compared with others
what I had was truly unimpressive.

Indeed, I surely encouraged snobbery
through admitting how little I had.
And snobbery hides in competition
the way jealousy hides in ownership.

But for good and ill I made what I had seem right,
in spite of how the systems that created one winner
always created many more losers who had to hide
their conspicuous lack of success,
and had little to hide behind.

Being thoroughly repetitive,
and poor of speech and money,
my parents never rhapsodised
about their choices or mine,
or the 'what might have been's'
were we materially better off.

Mentoring was off their scale,
and altogether beyond their comprehension.
In the world they lived in giving of your means
was relatively easy, but nobody talked
about how time was shared or given.   

Everybody Knows

how 'Pride sets us up for a fall'.

What nobody sees before their fall happens
is the time scale in which our pride works itself out.... 

For Refugees And Migrants

The currency of their poverty is absolute,
and the exchange rate for it
should appal the many
who have much more money
much more than it actually does.

Misusing Our Mistakes

To err on the side of caution
is to choose a mistaken idea
in the belief that your error
will be hidden in plain sight,
because common mistakes
are more acceptable than the rarer errors.

But hiding in the crowd
does not make anyone right,
but makes more people wrong
for not realising how wrong they can be.

Thus caution becomes the most careless path
that anyone can take, without them knowing it.  

The Currency Of Democracy

is less the vote and it's attendant processes,
and more how easily voters desires and ideals
can be turned inside out and totally reversed. 

Marxism Explained As Entropy

Every market relies on the impression of freshness
whilst controlling it's customers by commodifying them.

Since commodification means degradation,
and the shallowing out of character,
then when will the consumer need
some personal renewal to retain their custom?

Where ever renewal comes from
it had better be more thorough for the customers
than the presentation of the goods that they buy;
even marketing has a sell-by-date,
after which it will not work and cannot be used.