Whatever the price
After being sold out
All is equal
Whether
It is a stone
Or a diamond.
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It's all about impermanence and value. Something loses relevance and becomes meaningless once it is sold out, regardless of its true value. Both ordinary and valuable stones are devalued.
If we see this matter of fixing prices from a social perspective, then we come to the question of what human dignity is. Is that not the degradation of conscience? How do you see consumerism's assumptions to fix prices? Is everything commodifiable, such as your precious relationships, love, and attachment? Perhaps this is the relevant question to think about.
About the Creator
Fly Alone
Hello! I am a poet and writer. I write whatever comes in my mind.
A Flower Song
Apparently the Aztecs, Toltecs, Chichimecs and other Mexica were crazy about poetry. Despite the book-burning, slaughter, and epidemics that characterized the early stages of the Spanish conquest of the empires of Mexico, some hundreds of poems from the height of their tradition come down to us in Classical Nahuatl, preserved by Nahua and Spanish scholars of the 16th century. One of the most famous poets, Nezahualcoyotl, was a sage-king who opposed the cult of human sacrifice associated with Tezcatlipoca, God of the Smoking Mirror, and favored Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent. Flowers and feathers were the favorite offering of the Plumed Serpent. Moreover, flowers and feathers are a metaphor for poetry. Individual words, scattered petals, the down of tropical birds. The temples of blood sacrifice could be transformed into temples of flower and song. A sublimated offering to the Heart of Earth and the Heart of Sky encapsulated in the Classical Nahuatl kenning for poetry: in xōchitl in cuīcatl, meaning, "the flower and the song." The following poem is part of a longer work, and is in a state of flux, so take the waters as they flow:
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