Gray Matter

I see in my mind a herd of wild creatures swarming over the earth, and to each the herdsman has affixed some barbarous sound in his own dialect. - Thoreau

white and gray matter

warring inside of my brain

gray makes it splatter

Author's Note

"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Ern M. Yoshimoto]

the sun rose today in a glorious manner, the insects came to life, all nature is working the way it is supposed to do. but one worm of a thought, and it's a bad day. that we make our brains our enemy is the greatest flaw of human beings. this organ that took millions of years to evolve, and we despise it.
this haiku captures the torture we bring upon ourselves. it is also a wider statement on the way we need to un-fuckup our brains in order to lead the decent lives we were destined to.

[Glenda]

Hi Pete, I do agree with making the path in our mind by treading it over and over. This is the formula for success in many programs like AA. Same thing for house training, lol. Repeat, repeat, repeat.

Thanks for that wisdom!

[Pete]

sounds like you are a wise person. practice makes perfect. thanks for sharing astute thoughts.