THE BETTER PART OF VALOR

you have to excuse atheists and all deniers of not only god's soul but of all souls when you remember how tenuous our hold on reality is ... when the most significant thing I might ever say is in a passing remark to a near stranger who then will take the thought on to do great good or evil ... when you say the same thing to one you love and over decades they never do hear you they turn from you ... when you do that thing the thing you do that never does but shame you and you do it again ... when you turn to the books and you read them by the score and they go in one eye and out the other ... when the thoughts you think and the words you say are like passengers on a bus getting off and on and you're the bus ... when you stay awake and think you might do it forever it's not long before you're sleeping ... sleep it's even better than the night that holds it ... when words of triumph are the inevitable prelude to disgrace ... and all this when we have but two things your soul and everything else ... what better choice than surrender