Stuck in the Muddle

"..nothing significant happens in business until something is sold in business. "

My liege, what company is this we keep?

Emerged from the toil and stifled rule
where every thought be not your own
and a rule be made for every thought;
I now feel the energy of composing winds of words
above crystal lakes of waters crossed in my long journey...
Unconcerned with the perilous plots of lying mud
deep in the water's bottom; and when stirred...
slowly rises to cloud the view of a profitous journey's end.

Oh but to suffer this cloud of outrageous fortune
whose lips sling arrows that strike quickly...
their canons fire from my left - yet directly at me;
and the marksmen themselves are but jokers,
standing at my trusted right...
Now do I find myself stuck in the muddle
Of contumely company kept,
sadly wrote the bard.

To have traveled so far
only to profit yet another stifling rule?
Evenso with treasures gained in the journey?
And to be left with the company that speaks yet another imperial rule!
Now you my liege?
Et tu Brute? (And you Brutus?)
What unwise company is this you keep about you?

Ancora imparo. (Still I learn)
...greatest be the snares amongst the confines of noble causes
...at times finding strife without cause, when you least expect it;
...other times, you might also find enemies, amongst those you'd least expect
Who find their way with the men of straw, deceit, and envy...
As they twiddlel-twaddle and thwhack about in nothingness.

Still mine is but to dream in the reality of the blessing,
of another attempt to enjoy life with compassion for all.

- igman'120407

"Come my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a new world ....for my purpose is to sail beyond the sunset." - Ulysses
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