Complexity Of Situation

[RonPrice]

COMPLEXITY OF SITUATION

 

 

The daimonic is the urge in every human being to affirm itself, assert itself, perpetuate and increase itself....(the reverse side) of the same affirmation is what empowers our creativity, our inspiration. Ron Price with thanks to Rollo May, Power and Innocence, Sonnybrook Publishers, Dallas, 1986, p.13.

 

 

‘Tis an awe and wonder just to be alive;

this is a certain power, being’s enough to thrive.

Such an intense consciousness with ascetic trends:

love here is meaning, ontological as it mends.

And so we become ourselves with joy as we

throw ourselves in deep with commitment,

dedication where everywhere we meet.

But there’s a complexity of situation

that understanding needs to challenge

serpent wisdom and spirituality:

it draws out both the worst and best

can flatten out the heart

leaving one quite ready for

the Call beyond to part.

Bitterness and violence are also born

in this place for it’s the matrix

of our soul, the story on the face.

 

Ron Price

4 July 1995