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Defiance;
Revival of Vigilance
By Ali Khaghani
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We begin our lesson by reflecting introspectively:
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Question your character
Question your goals
Ambitions
Decisions
Question your honor
Question your honesty
Integrity
Personality
Responsibility
Mentality
Spirituality
Question your faith & knowledge
Question your virtues & values
Question your pride & confidence
Question your ego & insecurities
Fears & fragilities
Abilities & disabilities
Hopes & dreams
Memories & accomplishments
Ambitions & motivations
Emotions & devotions
Question your diversity
Vanity & humility
Sanity, security & serenity
Serendipity & self-pity
Question your attitude & perspective
Once the self has been revealed & recognized
The self & the soul can begin to reunite
Thus the potential to be self-actualized and
Your true potential realized
Next we proceed to study our surroundings
And resume our questioning externally;
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Question nature & universe
Question freedom & censorship
Question divinity & reality
Humanity & inhumanity
Friends & family
Synergy & synchronicity
Dignity & cruelty
Sanity & insanity
Virtuosity & atrocity
Decency & society
Question rights & relationships
Question love & lust
Question hate & envy
Question history & nationality
Heredity & heresy
Complacency & diplomacy
Authority & depravity
Vanity & validity
Secrecy & conspiracy
Solidarity & hypocrisy
Philosophy & psychology
Tranquility & philanthropy
Question science & technology
Question hypothesis & theories
Question prophecies & theologies
Question agendas & motives
Question progression & consummation
Question evolution & involution
Question claims & decrees
Question laws & criminals
Question crimes & punishments
Question oppression & depression
Question greed & gluttony
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Question the apocalypse
If you find such an undertaking
Grave, and insurmountable; then you’ve
Conceded to a life that is merely ordinary
Consenting enslavement and content to conform
Just another sheep in a suitable tie, clean cut and
Dry cleaned, pride in your ignorance, a chip on
Your shoulder and another embedded in your head
Trivial we’ve surmised this life, alas the mere
Process of in-depth and unrelenting questioning
Undermines our contempt for the gifts we take
For granted daily, and the rights we surrender
Easily
Burdened by anxiety, and maligned by artificial
Expectations, and delusional responsibilities we
Dismiss the sublime, and focus on the superficial
We’ve forgotten how to cherish each day, thus we
Merely endure, tolerate, and survive
To live life, to be aware and appreciate
To be intelligent and compassionate;
One must question life in this way, for
Inane and unaware we’re only an easy prey
Born in Iran and unto Persian ethnicity; I
have a heritage rich in poetry.
An ancient culture embellished by the
creative sublime. A historic tapestry laced
by such revered wordsmiths as;
Rumi, Hafes, Attar, and Khayyam. An early
victim of circumstance; determined yet in
time I’d reap the rewards of the
consequence.
My family and life as I knew it would be
torn apart by the 1978 revolution, and soon
thereafter a bloody war decade long war,
making vagabonds of us all. Neo-gypsies,
we’d wander about the globe in search of a
shelter to call home.
The journey would lend an intimate
insight unto multi-cultural virtues and
values, an acute sense of global awareness.
Therefore my youthful memorable experiences
would be rich in abundance and vast in
variety. Such prosper due to adversities and
the sheer magnitude of sites and sounds
during my most influential years of growth
and development have allowed me a distinct
approach and diverse perception of
existence, consequently to impact my poetry.
This privileged resource; rich in wisdom and
emotional extremities would also afford my
belief liberty from any secular biases,
independent to discover the faith in me and
accomplish a somewhat unique sense of
spiritual maturity. To me logic's the
language of the mind, and evidence of
science, alas poetry's the accent of
passion, and the expression from the heart.
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