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Entangle ...satire


Job 5:6-7 

6 For evil does not come up from the dust,
nor does trouble spring up from the ground,
7 but people are born to trouble,
as surely as the sparks fly upward.

 

 

Entanglement (phi)

 

When our imagination turns into reality  

is there then a need for dreams?

If we lean in understanding

on the thoughts of what might have been?

 

And then in turn teach others

the purpose of our lives,

Which clearly are illusions 

pointed out often by our wives.

 

Than we're jumping up and down

in a mental dis-array.

Looking forward to tomorrow

because we can't handle life today.

 

We look around us for scapegoats,

if needed even in outer space.

For reasons of discontentment

and that happens day to day.

 

Trouble was never our own, my friend.

It poured in from outside of me.

It is what others are doing

that enslaves me to be free.

 

You know I'm close to "perfect"

a legend in my own mind.

Please don't look so strange at me

that surely is not too kind.

 

I know you've got to agree with me.

I know you're not that blind.

I'm just hard to dislike … I know

even if just in my own mind.

 

Jan Wienen

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