SMARTER than Clever

  Trouble starts, 

     every time, 

       without fail, 

          anytime, 

             always:

               when mere creatures

                             think 

                                ourselves 

                                  smart.

Whoever gave us that idea?
You knew who?

that trouble comes from that fatally flawed 'thought'. 

when we try to 'think' clever.

More than we really could ever be .

More trouble when we try to 'act' clever.

In the first place, there wasn’t any need to even try to be anything, especially - "smart".

We thought we were 'too' smart.

No?

YES!

When we actually are so poor in that department vs HIM we should not even try.

But we thought we were smarter.

SMARTER than clever

No?
YES!

Trouble is we seek in the wrong places:

In the nice sounding 'nothings'
In the politely 'petty'
In the correctly 'inoffensive' --- but untrue.
Frequently haunting places which would place us high in social esteem. 
We get close & cozy with the well-set & connected folks when what is ‘well’ & ‘connected’ might smell bad & is contaminated.
We wheel & deal to add "value". 

The things that truly should mean, we deny.
The things that mean naught, we blow up to add glamor to our poor self esteem.
All acts we commit, do or omit to do, ensure our image, seen by others as what would raise our stature regardless whether these are 

'good' 

'honest' 

'true'

'righteous' 

or 

even decently 

'human' 

Lost in our haste to catch up, in getting ahead.
  -- of whom -- of what -- of which race?

we engage in games from which we think we did derive pleasure playing - so to seem to have 'arrived'
We posture, preen, attempting almost every moment there is any inter-creature interface to raise our exclusivity, to increase our 'regality'

A silly illustration:
Is it possible to be having great fun tortuously trying to hit a tiny ball, purposely crafted to be unnatural in denying every Law of Nature  & chasing it into a tiny hole; 
with a club which is ineffectively shaped for     hitting anything at all by a normally formed human hand, all over a man made obstacle course even army recruits would cringe from?

so to be considered  as being 
someONE of Stature ?

We: 
* drop names of the high, mighty, powerful   
   like we really were pals, when these don't even      know us from Adam, 
* say trendy words 
* make cool sounds 
   to impress       
   
   whom?

Once "taking out" some one is for pleasurable pursuits, for ice cream, movies, a stroll, 
a leisurely drive   
* now it's
 'heroic' 
 'patriotic' 
 'gungho'  jargon deadlier than removing weeds.

We:
* miss to value the love parents have for kids.
* miss to value the love of kids for parents.

* dismiss the gentleness, concern, care, time         

     devoted by aged Grandies (Grandies in law)  as      they love little grandkiddies,      

     despite, disabling, painful infirmities,   

     functionalities, 

* are unfeeling, unconcerned for the lost of

     camaraderie between good friends from way 

     back then.

* fail to truly share others' sorrows in any   
     helpful way, but become experts in paying lip   
     service…which literally "SUCKS"
* look for things that are 'smart' to look for.
   Wealth, Fame, Power, Prestige, Social       
    Integrity, Respect of Queers oooops 'Peers'.



We seek 
* Greatness,
* Glory, 
* to fly in lofty circles (of vultures?)
* Glamor 
* Transient Adulations
* Meaningless Attention 

And all the time we think we are smart, savvy, worldly, trendy, well set, cool.

We :
* speak no wrong even against the greatest    
   wrong. 
* fake niceties, nodding to disagreeables,
   to unpleasentness,  to nice-sounding   
   but dishonest values, to appear as 'team' players           [life's a game?] 

* lose our principles, our moral, spiritual   
   compass, drop off our pride, our convictions, on 
   what is 

Truth, 

Honor, 

Righteousness.

Piety

Trust

Trouble is we try to figure out stuff 
- "How stuff works" -
Stuff we thought we were smart to figure out. That's rather clever: then cleverer still 
- we so arrogantly try to figure out "GOD" 
with scientific succinct "human" logic  
     to unravel how, what, who, when, HE is about !

If this makes money : Heck why not


Attempting to gain ultimate supreme  credibility (perhaps?) with the ULTIMATE ‘ace’ up our sleeve.
So that when we say anything 
EVERY "éF.ing Joe stands at attention, erect, pay føøl attention, happily, submissively, cooperatively, patriotically,
piously agreeably nod assent.

OMG


What gave us that nerve to even think
That we could ever try,
To claim to know HIM?
[cos we've been there, done that?]

We have always thought we were pretty clever rather 'smart'.

 No?
Y E S !
   

That fatally flawed thought,

Interferes with our being here simply to appreciate 
HIS GREATNESS  

All living Createds were gifted

that 

'moment' 'chance' 'life' 

to immerse, 

 deeply drink, 

savor, 

be truly drenched, 

to saturate 

 & resonate with the

JOY HE felt when 

..He saw that it was GOOD..

we were birthed, to live, die, 

to return 

to whence we were and to again be 

enfolded, embraced, 

in

HIM

May you be not that smart.