Rhetoric: Less, Is It More?

Rhetoric: Less, Is It More?

A half of everything.

We now have and give a half of everything.

One half here, another half there, 

The other half on the moon, another half thrown to the sun. 

Pieces of halves scattered to the ground.

Sands, snippets, doodles and tastes of everything, 

Half piercings of needles from scathing at lifeless lives,

Half groanings of despair as we live half lives. 

Half sighs. 

Half smiles.

Half joys and half hates. 

Half loves and half wails. 

Half hearts and half dreams. 

Halves of thoughts and aimless realities.  

Halves of lies, lives, lacks, lofts and 

Halves of faiths and findings, 

Halves of cravings for entities.

Lord, 

When we give You "yes", isn't it always a "no"? 

We are divided in a half. 

And when we give You less, is it really more? 

When are we ever going to gather pieces of our half selves together? 

When are we ever going to join these halves? 

We are half here and half there 

Our minds are scattered everywhere 

Our hearts are for everything, our bodies are nowhere 

We are neither here nor there 

We have become but puppets swaying in two worlds and ending up nowhere 

So that when we give You our "yes", it is always a "no". 

We are victims of our own halfness. 

Meaningless lives. 

Half, aimless lives. 

Binging on struggles, surviving on fables, always half full. 

Comparing levels, stashing away baubles, always just dull.  

Living on half truths, depending on bubbles, always half full. 

Half aimless lives that cling more closely to false halves of reality than to the ultimate. 

Satisfied less, clueless, faith-less, always escaping the ultimate. 

Having less, feeling less, thanking less, always victims of the guesstimate. 

Is less more? 

When did less become more? 

When did having become same as "I have not"? 

When did full become none? 

When did "I know who I am" become "I know not who I am"? 

Christians, when did "I am strong!" become "I am not?" 

And when did "fear not" become "I can-not" 

And when did "I am" become "I am not?" 

Has the I AM become none? 

Have we - with our half lives and half thoughts and half wills - killed that Name and reduced it to "You are not?" 

When did the great I AM become "You are not?" 

Has less become more?

Bonface Morris.