Author: Michael Langston

Truth and love are the things that matter.

A VARIATION ON A THEME BY MOSES
by Michael Langston

In the end, Man destroyed himself and the earth.

2 And the earth was empty, and without life; and stillness was upon the face of the dust. And the spirit of Death moved upon the face of all the world.

3 And Man said, Let there be life: but there was no life. And the evening and the morning were the last day.

4 And it happened that when Man had at last subdued the earth, and had brought down his dominion unto every living creature, there came a time when each perished; even unto the last of them:

5 Great whales, and every creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly; grass, and herb yielding seed, and tree yielding fruit; fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven; the beast of the earth, and cattle; and every thing that creepeth upon the earth:

6 Till the last had passed, and all were gone, that only men and the rocks of the ground should be left.

7 And Man watched and comprehended not.

8 And Man said, Let us make earth in our image, after our likeness: and let us have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

9 So Man created earth in his own image, in the image of Man created he it; towns and cities created he them, and all things that hath not life: and every nonliving thing that moveth upon the earth.

10 But every living thing was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth.

11 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, and every man:

12 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the whole land, died. And nothing remained alive: all they that were on the earth.

Going to a psychiatrist or taking your child to a psychiatrist is, without doubt, one of the most dangerous things a person can do in our modern world. It’s a serious mistake and lapse in judgment, and it could very well be the worst mistake of your life.

Instead of informing patients and parents that antidepressants increase the risk of suicide, psychiatrists withhold that information and falsely claim that they save people’s lives. Nothing could be further from the truth. Antidepressants cause suicides.

PASSING OUTDOORS ON A SUMMER NIGHT
by Michael Langston

Passing outdoors on a summer night,
Past the unnatural world of man’s creation,
Entering the company of nature’s various forms
Has with it, always, a sense of placid contentment.
Quietly sitting, I hear the lessons of silence;
Around and before me, the teachings of darkness:
Away from striving, merely being;
Away from thinking, only knowing
A sense of perfect enlightenment…
Not to be found elsewhere but in nature.

The blame for most school shootings can be laid squarely at the doorsteps of the psychopharmaceutical industry and psychiatry. These drugs cause violence and suicide. The drug companies, psychiatrists, GPs, and pediatricians are to blame for this carnage.

VARIANCE
by Michael Langston

The flatness of water suggests itself all over:
In rivers, in puddles, in lakes, in seas…
All over…over and over.
And the world is at variance with the flatness,
All around…around the water:
In hills, in slopes, in fields, in trees
That surround…surround the water.

(The thinness of air is different from both.)

The blue noonday sky projects itself downward
With the greenery of summer at variance with its blueness.
The movement of insects disturbs the still twilight.
The dance of the fireflies is revealed in the moonlight
By the darkness of night at variance with their radiance.

Above, the stars vary with the black silence.