Unrestrained: Ramblings of a Point Pelee Madman by Doug Peters

Author:Doug Peters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2011-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

AM I MAD?

Am I mad?

What is mad by today’s standards?

Is it mad to yearn for peace

In today’s world of overbearing anxiety?

Is it mad to strive to obtain the simple life

Of one who cares to do what is best for others?

Is it mad to want to grow to spiritual ripeness

As does free-falling full fruit from the tree of Life?

Am I mad to want to exalt

The finer things within one’s soul

In the context that one should hold them

In highest esteem?

Is it mad to share with others the benefit

Of the ripeness of the full spiritual fruit,

That also helps others to flourish

As one nourishes oneself from within?

Is it mad to look with disdain

Upon those who would exploit

And use others for personal gain?

Those who hold near and dear to their heart

All that they would achieve and receive,

Through the cold and uncaring calculation

Of the perceived weakness in others

They believe is a strength in themselves?

Is it mad to want to create, within others,

A higher yearning for learning

Of all that is noble and honourable?

Whose standards would we use,

And in what book should we write

The laurels and the praise

Accepted as the basis for comparison,

And which standards could we live by?

Is it mad to think that a smile,

With no ulterior motive lurking beneath,

Is all that is required for true happiness?

Is it mad to believe that one can exist

On such simplicity, and that one somehow is

Held accountable for all of one’s actions?

Is it mad to believe in such a higher order

And a much better standard of living?

Is it mad to believe in such things?

If it be madness, so be it.

If it be madness, so be me.

Call me mad, use your own standard.

I will use mine.

For, if I find my happiness

In my personally considered truthful belief

That one’s madness is comprised

Of such simple personal things

From a warm and loving creative heart,

That seeks to satisfy itself and please others,

Not by others’ demise or misinterpretation,

But by accentuating the positive

Contained within the potential power

Of the loving spirit within us all…

Call me mad then,

If my contemporaries are others

Who don’t seem to share a similar vision

That I see, for we each have a right

To our own separate vision

And interpretation thereof.

Who is to say who is right?

I know what works for me,

And who am I to question

What works and is right for others?

I do, however, believe in some standards

That certainly should be approached

As guidelines for happiness within.

I firmly believe that undermining

Others’ perceived values and rights,

While imposingly trying to dominate them,

Is definitely not the right thing to do.

Philosophical dispositions may be complicated

In such an ever-changing large world of words,

If you possibly disagree with what I have stated

Maybe you’ll call me mad by your standards.

Throw out the standards of the old

If that be your new way of Today.

However, as water will find its own level

And Truth, eventually, comes full-circle,

As what goes around always comes around

And what will not float will surely drown…

Call me mad as I stand upon higher ground.

I choose to flow naturally with the current,

Going with all that is purely good,

Although the natural current of my reality

May not be considered today to be current,

But which I know to be right for me, to my sea.

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