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Argument with God

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  Why not always
this peace, this flow,
this soothing buzz of voices,
this perfect Silence in every
molecule of air?

You have work
to do on earth,
knots of your being to unwind,
your karma to unwind,

and many roads
to travel, still,
to undo roads
you don't
remember traveling.


Why not always
this peace, this flow,
this buzz of voices,
this Silence in the air?

Your learning brings you
opportunities
for greater learning.
You must be dislodged
from your plateaus,
in order to climb higher.


Max Reif


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  Ben Gieske  (3/22/2007 10:47:00 AM)

God gave us the world to help finish. We are not doing a very good job.
  Joseph Daly  (3/17/2007 5:58:00 PM)

I am reading Sebastian Faulke's recent novel which touches on a similar theme in places. This is a wonderful piece Max. The thought that went into this illustrate that you have taken a profound philisophical issue and brought out the obvious. The questions do not seem resolved; which reflects on the state of the world we find ourselves in. The opening stanza is important in that it grabs the reader and demands that the piece is read.

A real pleasure to read.
  Rajbir Singh  (3/17/2007 2:21:00 PM)

nice poem
good arguments

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