Restrained conventionality or informed consent to the inner and challenging voice of reason?

Self-explanatory

 

By Stanley Collymore

 

Always and earnestly endeavour to be who and what you

genuinely as well as independently think and believe

that you are �" and as is habitually the case, if left

unfettered, invariably turns out to be �" sensibly

and unapologetically devising in the process

of your doing so as much ordered objectivity, in relation

to yourself and your personal ambitions, that you can

realistically muster and then with straightforward

integrity utilize in your serious desire to be the

person - whom with accomplished courage, a

tenacious determination and both of these

descriptions combined with a decidedly,

absolutely decisively, unpretentious

and engaging composition - you’ll

be suitably acquainted not only

to truthfully and gratifyingly

wish to be, but in actuality

also admirably become.

 

© Stanley V. Collymore

12 December 2017.

 

 

Author’s Remarks:

Is it just a generational thing or have people nowadays in general and when compared to previous generations of the same ages and essentially social standing become a lot lazier, more stupid and increasingly significantly more incompetent than their predecessors have ever been?

 

Present-day individuals who haven’t the rudimentary common-sense let alone any discernible intellectual acumen to either think about far less so suitably work out solutions for themselves but instead consistently choose to rely on the malevolent overtures of others to determine for them how they should think or react to situations that explicitly relate to themselves.

 

And what sort of a meaningful life is it when the innate qualities that you were born with are asininely, unthinkingly and willing allowed to be subjugated by the selfish adventurism and wishes of others, leaving you in the process as nothing more than essentially dim-witted and easily manipulated human robots?

 

Your decision undoubtedly but is this really the very best that you can contribute or deliver to humanity after several millennia of mankind’s evolution?

 

Reviews

[R.E. Ray]

Stanley, your poem, especially in the context of your "Author's Remarks," asks legitimate questions and suggests a few possible answers. It also speaks to Emersonian "self-reliance," and shows how this human trait transcends time and generations. I believe the difference now, the near disappearance of authenticity, is attributed to today's "acceptance culture." If you step from the crowd now (political party, identity group, etc.), or even hint at another reality, you're excoriated on social media. It's unclear, at least to me, if we've now "evolved" to capitulate and cower, or just suppress our inner voice. Nice work! Keep writing, please.