The Way I See It

Today I sat quietly thinking.  My mind filled with images and words about the condition of the world today.  Reading about them in papers; hearing about them on the News.  I had discussions with my closest friend and members of my family about them.  I listened to all the points of view about the war in the Middle East; the North Korean concerns; the conditions in Africa;  the crime in our American cities.  Each person of my generation seemed to be of the same opinions and all were at a loss for any solutions.  As for me, well I have always thought of myself as an individualist and yet, a staunch supporter of justice for all.  I’ve intense feelings of fairness and often cannot rest my mind when something occurs that I feel is unjust. At times these thoughts swirl inside my mind needing an escape.  The best way I have found to expel them is to write poetry or better said, what I believe to be poetry.  So for the rest of this week I will choose some of my poems and share them with you on this blog.  With my sanguine attitude I will begin by sharing my thoughts on humanity, since that at the moment seems to be the predominant force inside my cerebrum.

Through emotional intellect we sometimes see what we ordinarily overlook.  We all experience humanity in our everyday existence, only we think we are different. The language of words, in whatever form they possess, spoken, unspoken and written connect us all.  ~ Kathy Napoli

Come share my words that I hope will inspire you.

Is Humanity a Myth?

To know one another through human familiarity or frailty 

Opens the path to peace 

Deliberating all differences as a form of communication

Paints the road with compassion

comprehension,  and patience

 

Asking questions and learning about one another

opens minds and ends all illusions

Existing together as one human race

Begins a euphoric condition

Resulting in peace throughout each one’s space

 

Illuminating humanity as life not myth

We merge as the same race – all sharing a similar body

Hoping all senses and intellect intact 

Will grant us the comfort to be able to be.

Knowing only what we have learned

Learn to love and you will love

Learn to hate and you will hate

Learn to conquer and you will conquer

 

Never giving peace its chance

Is killing the human race

Seeking peace is the salvation

Within the human race

~Kathy Napoli

I and others like me have tried to comprehend the political, religious and pragmatic sides of wars and abuse, crime and depravity, but aren’t things that a sane mind can grasp. These atrocities in life seem to repeat throughout history, no lessons being learned, no sensible reasoning for disrupting peace, and no regard for the human species in general. It is a sad world we exist in today, perhaps sadder than ever before since the emergence of formidable technology.  Everything is transparent for all eyes to see, so how can we not at least try to make a difference? Here in NY some people held an “Occupy Wall Street” protest against the corporate world, people from many walks of life and places around the world heard their cries.  I would love to see bloggers and others who use words to make a difference, perhaps begin an “Occupy Cyberspace” with messages of humanity.  That would be totally cool in this ever-changing speeding technological world where we exist.  Oh well, wishful thinking again on my part to right injustices.

It has dawned on me many times that perhaps to understand the ugliness in the world we need to look at it closer and identify it before we can begin to change it. Or perhaps we do see it and have no control over its spreading.  In either case, my thoughts are below.

Ugliness

    Today the media shows it everyday.  It is in print, it is on television and radio every hour on the hour.  It is in everyone’s home, on everyone’s lips and in everyone’s mind. It is impossible to hide and no one can completely turn away.  It is provocative and alluring. It is history in the making.  It is war.  It is inhumanity. 

  Human nature tries to turn from ugliness.  It masks itself with excuses.  No one wants to admit that ugliness has a right to live side by side with beauty because it is too hard to accept.  The reasons for it cannot be truthfully known for it is only the truth of those who must create it.  Blame has no place in ugliness just as it was born it will die.  Yet, to endure it is to be in the pit with the beast. 

    Beauty is simple.  There are no complications. It just exists as it was created and pleasured for– as it is accepted.  Ugliness does not share this epiphany.  It must reveal itself over and over again for it to be looked upon.  Its hideous, deplorable methods are drawn toward the center of each human being’s existence.  With the absence of ugliness – the world would not know the value and joy of beauty. 

   If we had the power to strike down all that was ugly, could we survive?  As a race of human beings we must embrace ugliness so that true beauty can surface. Realistically, all ugliness is not evil, yet evil is the ultimate ugliness we know.  Our existence is based on the powers of good and evil, we have not evolved to a level of wisdom wise enough to decipher the real difference.  So we must determine with limited ability the realism we exist by and that is acceptance of all things that are beautiful and ugly without truly knowing if it is good or evil.  

  War is ugly and war may be evil, yet without war those who embrace evil will create all that is ugly within the world.  Peace is the ultimate beauty, yet peace can only be fully achieved by eliminating all that is ugly and yet, all that is ugly is not evil.  To accept both beauty and ugliness and not equate it with good and evil is to reach a level that human beings have yet to achieve.  Peace must be seen as ugly and accepted as beauty for the human race to realize its destiny  

~ Kathy Napoli

And that is The Way I See It here in Brooklyn,

K