Chapter Thirty Nine: Wherefore, Premises Considered

It is discouraging to think how many

people are shocked by honesty

and how few by deceit.

Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

-o0o-

Beneath the danger 

of a thousand promises

A crooked soul emerges

like the parliament of owls

Nurturing the sophisticated

grace and champ, of miracles

Clamped altogether by space

and time, in moments of truce

Yet, to what extent?

Truly extraordinaire.

-o0o-

Love is a verb, not a noun. It is active.

Love is not just feelings of passion and

romance. It is behavior. If a man lies to you,

he is behaving badly and unlovingly

toward you. He is disrespecting you and

your relationship. The words "I love you"

are not enough to make up for that.

Don't kid yourself that they are.

Susan Forward, When Your Lover Is A Liar:

Healing the Wounds of Deception and Betrayal

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Love comes like a breeze

Felt like a shiver, but unseen

Into the many Lore prevails

A million baskets of eggs

Easter bunny, and all there is

Passion of the many souls

Commons, but uncommon

Altogether, more fantasy worlds

The lack of justice shows

There is no love, but hope.

-o0o-

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

An evil soul producing holy witness

Is like a villain with smiling cheek,

A goodly apple rotten at the heart.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

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Love and scriptures

The writers of holiness

Through whom, time is begotten

A series of prophetic deeds

And to cite the basis of dreams

Albeit the space in science

Crafted in the most serene

Messages of the prevailing Queen

Of spaceships and nebulas

Uninterrupted series of stars

Blackholes and equinox

Nothing to be prolonged

The dearest of merchants 

Profits to the energy source.

-o0o-

Deceit for personal gain is one of history's

most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards

change would be thinking, counter-arguing,

re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting

the believing every original idea he intends

to make public before making it public. There 

is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, 

which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.

Criss Jami, Kilosophy

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Then the premises wield

Like a story convincing, 

yet ultimately corrupts

The never ending gloom

And the blackness of night

The stars ever twinkling

Suspended in space

And the fantasies live

Inside the dream

Nightmares that scare

of the thoughts provocative

Doors to the imagined

The deceit mostly received

And the betrayal from love

The several longings, persist

The crimes with higher fines

Tolerated enough still

But never to believe

-o0o-

Vengeance, retaliation, retribution, revenge

are deceitful brothers -- vile, beguiling demons

promising justifiable compensation to a pained

soul for his losses. Yet in truth they craftily

fester away all else of worth remaining.

Richelle E. Goodrich, The Tarishe Curse

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Aliens, outsiders

of the moments curtailed

To seek retribution for sins

Shamelessly broken 

for a piece of bliss

To gain control

Of emotions and pain

Death, suffering, tied to a chain

Fittingly retaliated 

In the endless regret

Of art produced

And the painting reduced

An emotional flare up

And the burning desire

For the artist to go further

Into the farthest story arc

Expression of bold desires

By lovers and their kind

Wherefore, a goodness desired

An expression artistically profound!

-o0o-

Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business,

with no customers ever asking for their

money back after the goods are not delivered.

Victor J. Stenger

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