Jeff Brown

Platitude and Attitude



Posted: Friday, January 09, 2009

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Inner Projection

You are transformed by scholastic theology,
You fall when you think you have leapt.
Your bliss is obscured by unseen blight;
disease brought by squandered obsession on your pretty reflection.
You've learned well at turning off and tuning in,
but your possessive gaze has tuned out Charity and Hope.
A smile greets all that you're comfortable with,
but mind of the passion lies outside your zone.

Trespassing by stairs fashioned of Needy and Unrest
you vacation in ivory towers amongst the knowing,
worshiping at the feet of lock-step thinking.
You treat ignorance with disregard and
overlook the lesson of the blessings of works.
 
It is love of Charity I speak;
I speak not of alms, but a mind cleared of destitute judgement;
one which cleaves to forgiveness for those who've wronged.
Charity    the most precious of virtues, so heavy
it fell to earth for heaven could not hold it there;
born of perfection, chaste as a child weeping at mothers final prayer.

It is easy forgiving loved ones, yet accountable labor
for the cheat, the thief, the liar and layer.
It culminates in endless effort and not upon one chance;
seven times seventy completes a modicum of progression.
 
The answer lies not with the priest, the shaman or rebbe.
It breaths quietly amongst the Holy of your ghost;
cryptic message pressing for release.
Purge the world to see it was earthly din that murdered the Divine.

Inward looking bemoans the petty and limits power.
It is useless, for the self is too small for perpetual interest.
As you seek treasures . . . the tangible never satisfies,
For you can never get enough of what you never truly desired.
Charity satisfies.  It wanes and is sought time and again,
As a prayer from the living to the consumed of temporal-abyss.
Jeff is a Career, Life, & Mentor coach & CEO of  www.InnerProjection.com: working with students and parents using the proprietary Success, Design and Preparation system creating a plan to ensure his clients are of the 30% of college grads who don't waste 10 to 15 years or leave 100s of thousands of dollars on the table.

Prior to owning Inner Projection, Jeff worked as a computer programmer and in tech. support, but hated it enough to move from his home in Connecticut to do stand up comedy in Boston where he worked with such comics as Bill Burr, Dan Cook, and Billy Martin and wrote for people like Mz. Michigan who needed material for her ventriloquism act. He then moved to Los Angeles to do more stand up, but found being a coach & college instructor more rewarding. He's married with 3 children.
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