Whose Lives Matter?

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The Great Gift

Given Every Human Being

is

Choice

Contrary to what the Talking Heads Du Jour

are doling out,

Peddling from their pie holes these days,

Our lives do not Matter

just because we were pooped out onto the planet;

And if we claim they do, this begs the question, 

"To whom?"

Mankind has been presented

with the Extraordinary Privilege

of Making our Lives Matter...

...Or Not.

To accept the welfare checks of self-esteem

being written out wholesale,

paid to the order of "Whosoever Will"

from a bank account woefully in the red and desperately overdrawn

Is to abdicate our God Given Freedom

of Earning

and Owning

How we Matter to Mankind,

Is to indulge in unpareleled naivete and ineptitude,

being conned with cubic zirconias

out of the Diamond of our Dignity.

To buy in to vacuous verbiage is to Sell-out,

Is to willfully choose Slavery

to the Fickle and Groundless

And Very Changeable

Dictums of the Day.

In the end, it will be a jury of our peers

Which reviews the resume we leave behind,

Wherein our value to humanity is determined:

Whether or not our lives benefited our fellow-man in any way

Whether our lives made other lives better

Whether our lives

Did indeed

Matter...

...or Not.

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"This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you, that I have placed before you this day, Life or Death, Blessing or Curses;

Now therefore Choose Life, that you and your descendants may live."

-Deuteronomy 30:19