Kneeling by stream water to swill out the sacred wine vessel with water I see my reflection in nature as a Tudor but with no real desire to sit high on the hill as a monarch or even kneel before those I would later betray for golden horizons as a perceived pauper. Next time, when I decide not to dip the vessel in stream water over the image of self admiration I seek, I’ll drink the contents.
The vessel I’ve been entrusted with has the potential to inspire in me, passage upon passage the greatest story I’ve ever told, when ceremoniously my imagination will suspend into raw creative acceptance from beyond comprehension. A distorted interference of the senses will make it so.
Dipping the vessel into the stream puts me beyond the walls of the castle but I will soon find my way back to the center of turmoil where the monarchy will pity me for taking time out of a paltry life for serving their malevolence towards themselves, watching blindly as my enlightenment malingers before them. When a good person of faith becomes a target for evil, the greatest class of good will find strength in other good people before being brought down to a level of complacency.
When wine is within this vessel it causes a man to smile for a while and for a lifetime they deny being a bruise on the muscle of those who are against psychopathy by one’s own hand. The relationship that gives them the time to afford resources to ingest is the company they would most likely deny. To deny the strength of one individual, to inflict suffering by using another’s time on this Earth for their own glory will result in the pauper changing this wine into a slurry that will be ineffable for all and instant humility for others.
The vessel carries much more than wine. It is filled with billions of enlightened vessels of hope themselves, each one bearing, believing, and enduring all things in order to recollect the respect received in one’s own castle as the true status of that person out in the real world of love and brotherhood.
We are not for sale.
Francis Erich McElroy 
Brilliant!
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