This is a poem about looking for purpose and direction, and how their considerations.
Preface
The gaze of our yearnings may differ
Hence I had not tailored this message to my own.[1]
Prelude
In dreams born of dreams[2]
All the meanings are cryptic
And signify things unknowable.
To rule them is to dream them,
(the prophets read their own minds[3]).
Method
Goodness appears in the territorial majesties[4]
So align your faces with fertile directives.[5]
You are not a conqueror of cities,
Rather, of the paths you ride there.[6]
Don’t fear the demarcations of the fields[7]
Rather define your crops by the attributes you nurture.[8]
Chorus
Expansion is by divine dew and transcendental gears[9]
But you can find its proof
By glorious achievement, down here.[10]
Application
Seek them in the things you admire[11]
Just so in the secret truths you can’t tell.
You should prefer the best of all things,[12]
That most dominate your cast of intent,[13]
Or the most singular and fantastic.[14]
Optimization
The beauty of inspiration
Can reveal by its precious stature
Like a candle in darkness.[15]
The splendour of a constellation
Is by the peculiarity of its stars, shapes.[16]
Afterword
In the dreamer’s dream
The dreamed one awoke
Did they see that all their follies
Were miss-presented truths?
[1] People have different paths, which is why this poem is not specific to aanyone(intentionally).
[2] You know that life is a dream, but since even that dream is inside a dream, we must try and navigate the labyrinth of meaning and purpose whilst blind to its true form.
[3] Since the world is a mystery, we must decode its meaning by reading our own will.
[4] Anything that will be good for your life occurs in a context
[5] Anything that is chosen as a context, can be chosen by which opportunities look most rewarding.
[6] The value of achieving a potential-achievement is less-so the thing achieved, and more-so the trait of having-potential-to-achievement. Hence must choose which having-potential is worthwhile.
[7] E.g. what are the common labels, and what sets (combinations) result in an endeavour which is defined (by common-foolishness) as unfocused.
[8] The focus (i.e. crops focused on), is the character-trait which fruits/develops.
[9] Per the criteria established in Method, it follows that expansion-of-furtherance is due to deeply psychological/metaphysical mechanisms, hence one must pursue their direction whilst knowing that they are not capable of being aware of how they are improving.
[10] This follows I-cannot-know-deep-waters of previous note: Nonetheless I can revel in certainty of progress by achieving symbolic steps.
[11] Before the chorus the reader was told to seek opportunites for developing potentials and qualities. Here they are told what the “genre” of their pursuits should be. Here they are told to filter their desired trait/quality within the landscape of admired (regardless of whether it relates to the trait/quality).
[12] Rule of thumb: Choose that which is best.
[13] Rule of thumb: Choose what causes your mind to gravitate, when present.
[14] Rule of thumb: Choose that which you consider most unique or outlandish. This part is near “gevaot kedem” in the blessing.
[15] There is a particular aesthetic which derives from ideas which are your own. Not because of their inherent brilliance, but because they are cast in solitude from other lights.
[16] There is a particular aesthetic which derives from being unusual.
