In the stream of life, poetic lines of empathy and mercy counter the sorrow and harshness that claim our yesterdays and tomorrows—help us redeem this troubled present day, this thankful present moment.
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Of Princes and Frogs
*People are born princes and
princesses until their parents make them into frogs.
--Dr. Eric Berne, famous
psychologist and founder of Transactional Analysis
IF all of us humans are born princes and princesses at birth,
Conceived as innocent wondrous human beings,
How is it that every generation of caring parents change their
New born precious infants into glucky messy "frogs"?
And of course, what of our blameful parents—mean bewitchers—
Who were once wondrous innocents, too, little babes and toddlers
In their own parents’ arms! And back, back, to
Many grand-grand noble parents, ancestry-past
Turned endlessly back hopping into tadpoles, then slimy frogs
(warty toads) once upon a time as ill-well
Down to the 1st human primates at least 100,000 years ago;
Not so grand beginning of all croakliness.
What unlovely history words for the froggy in us all.
So where did this repulsive ‘tail’ of our soon-to-frog
ancestor start,
The tadpoled-former prince of humanness begin?
Back before the primordial pond changed into corrupt skyscraping
High tech zoos, where worse slime and grime still
remain?
Go back and back, generation upon generation to the
human start—
That doesn’t solve why frogginess croaks and hops through
the millenniums,
Why millions of humans birth oh so good, but devolve into
ne’er-do-bads,
Why way too many of the little ones grow, cycling down
To dysfunction, neurosis, selfishness, even suicide and war;
Why some humans throw money around themselves like green confetti,
Gorge to overweight,
and spend spend for dieting in deluxe gyms
While others, skin and bones, pick small finger-fulls of corn
kernels
Out of horse manure on the muddy road or become
child-soldiers with guns,
Why the most religious slaughter millions for god or ideologies
And the civilized century of the 20th became most
murderous.
What unlovely delusion words of the poison froggy in us all.
Yes, we’re dealing with the cussdedness of our human
kingness
Says Mark Twain (of The Prince and the Pauper)
Of course, Dr. Eric Berne, the astute psychologist knows our
inner self
Of the 3 sides of consciousness—our inner felt, tradition taught,
And rational-thought; what Berne termed “Child, Parent, Adult"
the latter which seeks objectivity, evidence, rational, who tries to sort
Some sense from the human historic quagmire of feeling, insight,
Prejudice, superstition, fantasy, delusion, and moral conscience;
That deep within resides, too, is the Id a little fascist,”
Destructive desire that ever seeks chaos and destruction
But where did this little reptile desire come from?
Creeedalists in heated discussion will point to Adam’s Original
Sin
When the wily snake cast doubt and tempted us to dragonhood.
The Calvinists shout our reptilian fallenness
came
By the predestined will of the Almighty Sovereign who ordained our evil
Before the Creation of the Cosmos, we little infants born sinful
Pre-damned to Hell’s fire forever solely for God’s eternal pleasure
and glory.
What horrific despairing words for the froggy in us all.
Secular folk reason we are born into through evolutionary biology
where good blossoms and evil
cancers
(The duo of opposites) so babes are both noble and nefarious,
Will become both princes and frogs together split,
(Though snake or dragon aptly fits more than a few);
What we human primates need to do is strive for rational evidence,
Not the sludge-paupered pond, diseased with plague,
Though multi-millions fail to reach such a sought goal.
Tragically, in so many cases lost children struggle in
dysfunction
Almost from birth because they were born unfortunately
To very froggy parents living brazenly wrong, in our malfunctional
Societies, ever tempted by the glutted media praising our worst inclinations.
What despairing words for the froggy in us all.
Then by 7 or 8, waken to moral consciousness; but
Perceiving finiteness, we turn to gimmie gain and then guilt,
Not getting beyond our selfish tempted pond
Even group egotism, false illusionary religiosity
Masks the slither and wily guile gone to bad, to even evil,
Lke Muslim jihadists, Nazi supremacists, Stalinist oppressors,
And endless other historic destructors.
What unlovely theoried words for the froggy in us all.
Egocentric, selfish, we cycle down from the constant testing
To our own demise or if we seek the Good, meticulous Truth,
Caring Just, embrace, responding to Ever’s mercy, rise in
Thankful compassion, bow and kneel in meekness to true transcendent life,
Renewing our innocent conception and blessed births,
Becoming noble refusing our lower froggy destructive
Passions, in our full-hearted reasoned, thoughtful morally real actions.
What wonderful truth for the prince and princess in us all.
Daniel Wilcox
