Unraveling the Method to the Madness

Socks full of Foxtails...

over the course of many maps
i follow paths that lead me to those highly
sought after places

i trudge relentlessly with otherworldly effort
many methods of step take me to many worlds
and they are always worlds of great discovery

for my efforts, through the rough and treacherous tumble
i manage to unearth treasures

sometimes these treasures come in the form of crystallized sand
looking glass
glasses
a crystal ball
something to s e e through

this time what I saw through my glass
showered me
showed me
just how incredibly deluded I can be
I once was
and surely still am
in ways
i haven't seen yet...

And the greatest, and what may be called the original sin of the human mind

is sloth, it's over-simplification. We want to think that there is only one cause for every given phenomenon, therefore there is only one cure--there is not! This is the trouble: no phenomenon on the human level, which is a level of immense complexity, can ever have a single cause-- we must always take at least a half a dozen conspiring factors into consideration . . .
-- Aldous Huxley, 1960

My Personality Hurts...

It bends, sways, and settles
harms, hurts, and meddles
lifts, drops, flies,
keeps me on an ever ready ride